Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on wildlife, science and the environment. Robyn joined Newsweek in 2022 having previously worked at environmental ...

Dunes, the mounds of sand formed by the wind that vary from ripples on the beach to towering behemoths in the desert, are incarnations of surface processes, climate change, and the surrounding ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A windy day on the beach can leave you a sandy mess with sand everywhere from in your clothes to sand in your hair. Windy beach days, however, can be very important to a beach's ...

As the sun beat down on a sand dune in Iran, a patterned creature rested in the shadow of a bush. Nearby scientists spotted the long-tailed animal — and discovered a new species. Researchers ventured ...

Mars has a vast sea of sand dunes in the high latitude region encircling its north polar cap, known as the North Polar erg. These dunes are made up of basalt and gypsum sand grains. In some regions of ...

Dunes of sand sweep across the solar system, building drifts on any world with even the slightest hint of a breeze. Some look like the features we’re familiar with on Earth, made up of bits of rock or ...

Scientists found a camouflaged animal with a long tail on sand dunes near Boshruyeh and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Orlova, Rasegar-Pouyani, Rajabizadeh, Nabizadeh, Poyarkov, ...

Looking at dunes and other rock formations on both Earth and Mars can tell scientists the environmental conditions that created them This article was originally published at The Conversation. The ...

(A–B) Locations of mapped dune fields on (A) Earth and (B) Mars. (C–D) Examples of mapping and interaction identification on (C) linear dunes in Tanami Desert, Australia, and (D) crescentic dunes at ...