Norwegian scientist Kristian Morten Olesen has patented a process to mix nano-particles of clay with water and bind them to sand particles to condition desert soil - he has been working on Liquid ...

Why sea and desert sand don’t make the cut Sea and desert sands fall short of the qualities needed for reliable construction. Sea sand, for instance, is typically smooth and fine, with rounded ...

The parched desert and hillsides made an inviting canvas: By simply removing a layer of dark stones cluttering the ground, exposing the lighter sand beneath, the Nasca created markings that have ...

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The color, fitting for the desert of Indio, California, was aptly called "desert sand blonde." Naturally, we had to know more ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

This is led by the production of concrete, which is typically made up of about 25% sand. The problem when it comes to supply is that most desert or beach sand is unsuitable - desert sand is too ...

In the 1940s, RAAF planes took aerial photographs of the Great Sandy Desert, capturing something valuable: the patterns of ...

Study Finds Nearly Half of U.S. Counties Have at Least One 'Pharmacy Desert' Aug. 23, 2024 — Nearly half of counties in the United States have at least one 'pharmacy desert' where there is no ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.

Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are found on every ...