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 ...

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") ...

Sand dunes can be enormous – the largest are as tall as skyscrapers. imageBROKER.com Yet we can go beyond today’s deserts and find evidence of more widespread dune landscapes, for example ...

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 ...

So we get to use all that sand."Sand that would normally get tossed back into the ocean by the UACE will instead be handed over to the county to rebuild Ponce Inlet dunes."Otherwise, we would have ...

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.