This isn’t the Sahara or Gobi Desert.. This is Colorado. Specifically Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, home of the tallest dunes in North America. “We just had one of our ...

How Hurricane Beryl left beach sand dunes flattened in its wake and what Texas officials plan to do to help. Extreme weather continues to decimate some of Texas' most fragile ecosystems.

Hey Ray: Sand dunes 02:22. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A windy day on the beach can leave you a sandy mess with sand everywhere from in your clothes to sand in your hair.

Dunes are formed when wind deposits sand and shapes it into mounds. Greenwich Beach has a roughly six-kilometer stretch of dunes; vegetation on top holds the sand in place.

But sure enough, there are dunes right along Lake Michigan. “The sand dunes are a remnant of the glaciers that created the Great Lakes, including Lake Michigan, of course,” he explained.

Think wide open dunes and the chance to sled down sand instead of snow 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Great Sand Dunes may be off the beaten path, but it’s an easy overnight trip from Santa Fe ...

How to Plan a Backpacking Trip in the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Great Sand Dunes National Park is tucked up against the western ramparts of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range in ...

In Arabia’s Rub’ al Khali desert, for example, giant linear sand dunes have formed in several dry periods during the past 130,000 years. The dunes may even be much older, ...

When writer Frank Herbert saw the dunes in 1957, he was inspired by the awesome power of the sand. A few years later, he published his science fiction novel "Dune." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DUNE") ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades ...

Famed for their light-on-the-land designs, the duo made their first big mark in architecture with Sand Hills, in Mullen, Neb., a profoundly influential course (Bandon Dunes was among the many ...