Mleiha may be a fairly unassuming small town surrounded by the dunes of the Sharjah desert, but the area around it is ...

We traveled to Africa to visit Algeria, where we saw the Sahara Desert, drank foamy tea, ate bread and experienced the change ...

Like something from the science fiction film "Dune", the "world's biggest mining dredger" has been swallowing acre after acre ...

This battle can be won': desert expert reveals how China's technology, funding and strategies aid ambitious environmental ...

conveyer belt to transport millions of tons of sand for hydraulic fracturing. The belt the company named “The Dune Express” runs from tiny Kermit, Texas, and across state borders into Lea ...

(AP Photo/Julio Cortez) A sand dune is backdropped by Atlas Energy plant at the beginning of a 42-mile conveyor belt that carries sand needed for hydraulic fracturing Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in ...

Atlas Energy Solutions, a Texas-based oil field company, has installed a 42-mile long (67 kilometers) conveyer belt to transport millions of tons of sand for hydraulic fracturing. The belt the company ...