Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through ...

For adventure junkies, biking through desert landscapes is an experience like no other. The endless stretches of sand, ...

Desert hikes are an adventurous challenge, and trekkers love to explore the vast expanses under the sun's glare ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist There have been numerous headlines in the past five years centered on a confusing subject: The world seems to be running out of sand. How could this be ...

A new study led by the University of Southampton and research institutes in France has uncovered the mystery of how mini sand ...

Repeated swings in temperature can also weaken and eventually fragment rock, which expands when hot and shrinks when cold. Such pulsing slowly turns stones in the arid desert to sand. Likewise ...

Sand bunkers, waste bunkers ... The "fairways" that make up the desolate landscape course consist of rocks and desert scrub that was once a local racing club on the very same grounds.

As a plane soars over the high desert of southern Peru, the dull pale sameness of the rocks and sand organize and change form. Distinct white lines gradually evolve from tan and rust-red.

This desert makes up 83% of Africa’s largest ... group and Baika’s bright blue daraa contrast against the beige rocks and sand. The visitors see each other on top of dunes — mere dots ...

asks Baba Atanof as a tourist struggles to get her leg over a large rock on a steep ascent in the Algerian Sahara Desert ... it easy to remove any wayward sand). “No tea, big problem ...