Specifically Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, home of the tallest dunes in North America. “We just had one of our scientists do some measurements, and Hidden Dune is the tallest dune ...

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 sandy elevated landforms that typically have plants growing in them. They are often found along low-lying coastlines where strong waves and currents drive sand onshore to the beach.

Forget the cliched Rocky Mountain gatherings and Mesa Verde mysteries. Colorado has another unique gem waiting to be explored ...

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.

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") ...

Thousands of families visit the Outer Banks to climb the incredible sand dunes at Jockeys Ridge each year. Many have no idea, ...

Japan’s least populated prefecture is home to the Tottori Sand Dunes, a desert landscape that is now carefully protected by the government.

When Ogden Dunes began hardening the shoreline against Lake Michigan’s attacks, Save the Dunes drew a line in the sand. So did the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. So did the U.S. Army ...

Circular sand dunes on the surface of Mars covered in frost. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona) The camera has recorded a variety of Martian sand dunes with an impressive range of both ...

Data from the high-resolution camera indicate that sand dunes are migrating from the equator to the poles at a rate of up to 3.3 feet (1 meter) per Martian year, or 687 days on Earth.