In this episode of Chasing Dust, we dive into the growing controversy surrounding AWD vehicles in National Parks. Recently, the National Park Service announced new restrictions, cracking down on AWD ...

Matt Balme thought of a tornado when he saw his first dust devil near Phoenix, Arizona. Now he looks forward to spending next summer chasing down dust devils in a four-wheel-drive truck to help ...

Mars researchers from the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson visited Eldorado Valley outside Las Vegas in the summer of 2009 to learn more about dust devils, which also occur on Mars. Here the ...

“It’s a bit of an art — learning how to drive across dry lake beds at great speed,” says Matt Balme. “And it can be quite hairy as well.” During the next three years, Balme will spend a lot of time ...