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.

Forget the cliched Rocky Mountain gatherings and Mesa Verde mysteries. Colorado has another unique gem waiting to be explored: The Great Sand Dunes National Park! Here, the star attraction isn't a ...

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") ...

As Marco Polo and others have long wondered—why makes sand dunes sing? A new study offers a clue. Sand blows from a dune in Namib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia in 2009.

When Ogden Dunes began hardening the shoreline against Lake Michigan’s attacks, Save the Dunes drew a line in the sand. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 71°F.

Booming sand dunes sound like instruments because, as opposed to squeaking sands, the noise they produce lasts longer (up to 15 minutes in large dunes) and it emanates at a single ...

Guiding scientists through snow and memory at Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk Sand Dunes. By Seth Kantner. Published: May 5, 2025. The west side of the Kobuk dunes along upper Kavik Creek.

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.