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.

It's a decade since Donald Trump began building his golf resort on the enormous mobile sand dunes of Balmedie in Aberdeenshire. Conservation organisations bitterly protested and the idea of ...

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.

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") ...

Sand Dunes National Park officials search for solutions to parking problems, visitation spike “Current conditions are not acceptable,” the superintendent said ...

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.

Specifically, the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, Little Kobuk Sand Dunes, and Hunt River Sand Dunes — standing 100-feet tall — are an unexpected sight among the ice.

But these are the Tottori Sand Dunes, wedged along the coast of Japan’s sparsely populated San’in region, the country’s very own slice of desert. The dunes extend 16 kilometers ...

Brushwood is currently seeking artists to submit work for its show, “In the Shadow of Coal — Botanical Treasures of the Waukegan Dunes,” which will run for seven weeks this summer… ...

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 ...