We flew from Beijing to Lanzhou and then drove to a town near the edge of the desert to meet our camel team. We camped in the sand the last night before setting off into the dunes. I didn’t ...

Life thrives in the extremes of the Sahara Desert and Alaska as nature and humans adapt to intense heat and freezing cold ...

The third-largest Canary Island is often overlooked by the insatiably popular Tenerife, despite its impressive 400 hectare ...

This dromedary, the correct name for the one-humped camels of Morocco ... against a tent in a desert camp await those wishing to climb the Sahara dunes and sand-surf down. (Janet Podolak ...

I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take ... motorized travel in the Libyan Desert in the 1920s and ’30s.

Fennec Foxes are the quintessential desert creature. Image by Tom Parry. Bechir Belhad sits on Saharan sand dunes. They can live ... they can be found only in the Sahara. Their cunning is ...

Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco. In desert communities frequented ... have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts.

The dunes were formed over thousands of years from sand blown over from the neighbouring Sahara Desert. Today ... the sand hills by walking tours, camel rides, sandboarding or bird watching.