From towering dunes to sweeping desert landscapes, the U.S. is home to some of the largest and most stunning sand dunes in the world. Discover where to find these natural wonders and plan your nex ...

Behind many of these beaches are sand dune systems which provide homes for diverse forms of wildlife including plants and insects, some so highly specialised that without these dune habitats ...

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 ...

RELATED: From woods to sand dunes: 3 spots to fat-tire bike Up North For instance, fat-tire bikers adopted the ORV area and it’s become a popular spot to cruise up and down the dunes.

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 ...

Forvie Sands is a National Nature Reserve and brilliant bird habitat. All these sand dunes make up one of the largest sand dune systems in Britain. The sands settled here in the sea after the end ...

Researchers measure the impact of Storm Lorenzo in 2019 on the dunes at Crantock Experts in coastal processes have found sand dune systems in Cornwall need to be studied individually to project ...

Officials are on the lookout for someone who damaged endangered ... The incident occurred in late December at Eureka Dunes, the tallest sand dunes in California, the park service announced ...