As for the dunes which inspired the book, well, today they're disappearing. For NHPR's podcast, Outside/In, Justine Paradis follows in Frank Herbert's footsteps to meet the people trying to save ...

Indiana Dunes National Park, a 15,000-acre area in northwestern Indiana, along the shore of Lake Michigan, is the country’s newsest and 61st – national park. It’s one of 418 units in the US ...

Ruth Marie Terry was identified as the “Lady of the Dunes” last fall. FBI Muldavin was the last person to see Terry alive — and had also been a suspect in the 1960 murders of another wife ...

Credit: Cleo8it/CC BY-SA 4.0 The Lady of the Dunes was found naked and lying face down under long grass on that fateful summer day. The girl who found her initially thought it was a dead deer.

“I got fascinated by sand dunes,” Herbert said in a 1969 interview. “Sand dunes are like waves in a large body of water…and the people treating them as fluid learn to control them.” ...

Built amid soaring sand dunes in the heart of Wisconsin, Mammoth Dunes joins the Coore-Crenshaw designed Sand Valley course as the second 18-hole layout at the Sand Valley Resort. After hosting ...

Sand dunes are rarely isolated. They form in large groups known as dune fields, whispering in the desert wind or flowing with the water on a seabed. Now researchers have discovered that dunes ...

It’s a steep climb up the sand dunes at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, but there’s an even steeper price to pay for those who get stuck. Visitors who can’t quite make it back up the ...

Lu Ann Sullivan and her husband, Sam Morris, are valet parkers who met while working at the Dunes. They appear in a photo from Jan. 24, 1993. (Las Vegas Review-Journal file photo) ...

Michigan has the most freshwater dunes on the planet - more than 300,000 acres of them. But how exactly did they form, and why do they look different on one end of our state when compared to the ...