Clearly you can’t visit the sand planet of Arrakis and maybe you wouldn’t want to. It’s hot, it’s dry, and you can’t walk in ...

The City of Folly Beach is taking precautions to protect the dunes and birds that contribute to the island’s habitat and ...

Primary dunes are composed of sand blown directly from the beach face (active beach), whereas secondary dunes develop following the subsequent modification of primary dunes. Davies (1980 ...

The beach’s dunes are scheduled to be nourished with sand dredged from Kihei Boat Ramp. -- The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo Sand dune restoration projects are underway to fight coastal ...

After five years, the American Sand Sculpting Championship is back on Fort Myers Beach. Here's what you need to know about ...

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 ...

By stepping on a stretch of beach or dune, moving across it with your hand, or poking it with a stick, pencil, or other such object, you can, given the right kind of sand (see ingredient list at ...

Aa Aa Aa For large-scale coastal dune development there needs to be a suitable wind regime, large reserves of sand and suitable nearshore, beach and back beach morphology (Pye 1983, Iversen ...

Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset, is host to a system of natural dunes that provide protection against coastal erosion. But their spread can lead to the build-up of sand, which affects beach access and ...

Appearances can be deceiving. At first glance, you'd never think the rolling white sand dunes of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas held the largest stand of oak in the country. The region's ...