If you don't have a wristband to get into the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival this weekend, consider getting in the car and heading up to the Mojave Preserve in San Bernardino County. There you ...

Booming, roaring, barking, squeaking, and whistling sands have figured in folklore and travelers' tales for 1500 years, with the earliest references found in Chinese and Mideastern chronicles. Marco ...

Sand dunes are sculpted by wind. As long as streams flow and lakes stay wet, the sediment in them is protected. When lakes or stream beds dry out the sediment is exposed to the wind and the particles ...

Staff writer Charles Hillinger reported in the Oct. 20, 1976, edition of the Los Angeles Times: DEVILS PLAYGROUND, Calif. — Jack Hereford slowly made his way up the steep, seemingly razor-sharp ridge ...

Most people who did not grow up in the Mojave Desert were probably surprised to learn how few sand dunes are found here. The vast, flat landscapes of desert pavement and creosote were not remotely ...

“EEEEOOOWW!!” Geralynn topples over, cross-country skis and limbs tangled. Lisa and I, plodding forward in step-up-and-slide-down fashion, are catching up to her fast. The rising summer solstice full ...

It’s summer and that means many of you probably want to get out and do a little exploring. I’m talking filling up the tank, grabbing the map out of the glove box (or turning on your mobile GPS ...

I typically love the sea, sun and sand. Interestingly though, not all the sands I’m drawn to lie in coastal regions. In fact, most of the sand on Earth is stacked in massive piles in remote areas – ...

More than 100 years ago, steam engines pulled long trains across the forbidding Mojave Desert, stopping for water at spots like tiny Kelso, Calif., about 90 miles south of Las Vegas. Clustered around ...

Taken from the Reflections – Mojave Desert project and accompanied by a Pompeii-esque video, Floating Points' new "Kelso Dunes" continues in the same vein as previously shared "Silurian Blue". The ...