There is no Dune without Arrakis and there is no Arrakis without the desert—and, for director Denis Villeneuve, there is no Arrakis nor desert nor Dune without real sand and horizon and oppressive ...

Deserts are often dismissed as empty wastelands of sand and sun, but these arid landscapes hide some of the most perplexing ...

China has successfully encircled the Taklamakan Desert, the country’s largest and the world’s second-largest shifting desert, with a 1,900-mile (3,050-kilometer) green belt of vegetation and ...

"Arrakis is Dune, and Dune is sand," said Dune: Awakening executive producer Scott Junior, describing the desert planet that serves as the setting for the upcoming multiplayer survival game. This ...

The sand cat (Felis margarita) is a small, elusive wildcat exquisitely adapted to thrive in the deserts of northern Africa, Southwest and Central Asia — some of the hottest, driest habitat on the ...

The sand cat is a type of feline that spends nearly all its life in the desert. While they may not look that much different from an ordinary house cat at first glance, a closer look reveals just how ...

Desert lizards may be able to teach us a thing or two about digging into loose sandy environments, such as at the beach or in the desert. Image Credit: TCB/Pixabay Researchers from the University of ...

Star Wars sometimes gets teased by fans for spending way too much time on desert planets while there’s a wealth of colorful, vivid possibilities in a galaxy of limitless imagination. But how much time ...

When one thinks about Tamil Nadu, they typically picture its serene Bay of Bengal coastline, historic temples, and lush paddy ...

At the beginning of March, a team traveled to Dubai and planted watermelon, zucchini and pearl millet in a plot of desert. Five months later, the arid land is filled with rows and rows of green leaves ...

The Arabian sand boa lives in Arabian deserts. It has unique eyes and hunts at night. These snakes bury in sand to ambush geckos. They are small, golden-brown, and lay eggs. Females help hatchlings ...