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Bleak future for Karoo succulents as desert expands in South Africa
Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches ...
Lost fynbos seeds from underground 'time capsules' in South Africa can grow again, study finds
Underground seed banks in South Africa that date back over 130 years have been found to contain fynbos seeds that are alive. These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants ...
Researchers use AI to uncover an ancient 5,000-year-old civilisation beneath the world’s largest desert – here’s how
Scientists at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi have developed an AI algorithm capable of revealing hidden archaeological sites ...
Texas oil company rolls out 42-mile conveyor belt to transport sand
It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph -- too ...
The Marc Philipp Gemballa Marsien Is Our Kind of Alien
Power can take you to some unlikely places in the desert, but sand almost always wins in the end. Driving over most types of ...
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Along With Its New Park, Ocean Beach Gets a Dunescaping
Sea-level rise is threatening San Francisco’s shores. In February, the city began vegetating the sand dunes as part of its ...
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This ‘Dune’ isn’t fiction. It’s the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas
The belt the company named “The Dune Express” runs from ... Sahara on the northwest coast of Africa, according to NASA Earth Observatory. When moving sand by truck became a nuisance, an ...