The famed coastal dunes that inspired the shifting sand landscape of the desert planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel “Dune” are also under siege — from climate change ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d landed in the Middle East. But these are the Tottori Sand Dunes, wedged along the coast of Japan’s sparsely populated San’in region, the country’s ...

Colorado has another unique gem waiting to be explored: The Great Sand Dunes National Park! Here, the star attraction isn't a ...

Explosive growth in visitation at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve over the past eight years has reached a point where park officials say they need to improve the visitor experience ...

Recent images from NASA’s Mars Orbiter unveiled a peculiar geological feature that has intrigued scientists and space ...

Stretching roughly 40 miles between the towns of Florence and North Bend, 7,000 acres of sand dunes run along the Pacific Coast. Protected as part of the 31,500-acre Oregon Dunes National ...

Large sand dunes along Lake Michigan's beaches in Northwestern Indiana are a draw year-round for road trippers and nature lovers. The Indiana Dunes tower almost 200 feet above the lake and have ...

SO WE GET TO USE ALL THAT SAND, SAND THAT WOULD NORMALLY GET TOSSED BACK INTO THE OCEAN WILL INSTEAD BE USED TO REBUILD THE DUNES. THE COUNTY RECENTLY APPROVED NEARLY $8 MILLION TO MAKE THIS ...

The sand dunes were imaged as part of a program to see how frost melts on the Red Planet in late winter. Planetary scientists have captured an image of near-perfectly circular sand dunes on the ...

Save the Dunes drew a line in the sand. So did the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. So did the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. And now it’s up to the Indiana Natural Resources Commission ...