Californian sand dunes. It all starts with the new color, called California Dune, which Rivian says evokes "the subtle natural undertones of the desert dunes with calming, earthy tones that offer a ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

It looks blue because it reflects the color of the sky above ... when the sun reached all the way down to the bottom of the sand dune just before it reached the desert floor.

A more than 40-mile long conveyor belt filled with sand stretches from the oil fields of West Texas to New Mexico, all for the purpose of one mission: oil production ...

And because you can’t offer a new paint color without freshening ... itself stuck in some deep sand and needs a little extra help getting out. The California Dune edition also comes with dark ...