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 ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and characterize life and its biosignatures in frozen sand dunes in Alaska, under ...

An oceanfront home perched on a sand dune on Florida’s Amelia Island hit the market this month for $12.5 million, one of only two properties on the island asking more than $10 million.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Illegal sand harvesting in the Lamu water catchment areas are threatening sand dune zones ...