Some believe the desert is silent. They picture a vast mute nothing, hot enough to grill a steak on your vehicle’s hood and dry enough to chap your soul. They think of scorched plains, scrubby plants ...

A neighborhood built in a dry river basin in the Mojave Desert has vanished beneath waves of sand. This video investigates how flawed development decisions, sand dumping by the county, and ...

Stretching across the remote Mojave Desert, Cadiz Road once linked travelers to Route 66 but now passes silent ghost towns, shifting dunes, and relics of a vanished highway era. Senate Democrats block ...

In some places, sand dunes protect shorelines from the onslaught of ocean waves. In other places, the dunes themselves are on the move, and threaten human structures. Host Flora Lichtman talks with ...

David Thomas receives funding from NERC and The Leverhulme Trust. He is also affiliated with The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. The Dune films remind us of just how beautiful, mysterious, ...