The BYD Shark is a plug-in hybrid pickup that Americans can't have. A new video shows it handling brutal Australian desert ...

Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco. In desert communities frequented by tourists, 4x4s motored through the puddles and residents surveyed the scene in awe. It's a surreal ...

Archaeologists removed the sand dune, then built a “protective wall” with “thousands” of sand bags to keep the water from filling the ship, the study said. Photos show the process.

they trap the planet's water underground, turning the surface of Arrakis into a desert creating the "spice melange’" that enables space travel in the series. In "The Science of Dune," a book ...

dedicated sand control workers are busy mending and reinforcing defenses in the form of straw checkerboards — straw placed in a checkerboard pattern on the desert surface to secure dunes.