This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

The beach’s dunes are scheduled to be nourished with sand dredged from Kihei Boat Ramp. -- The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo Sand dune restoration projects are underway to fight coastal ...

So much of nature is just as ominous as it is beautiful. And that’s definitely true of the sand dunes in Slowinski National Park, Poland. Set along the country’s Baltic coastline, the 186.18 ...

with native dune plant species readily trapping sand and building dunes on a beach that had been flattened by decades of intensive grooming. But the question remained: how much resilience will these ...

Boneyard Beach is a three-mile stretch of Jacksonville's Big Talbot Island State Park and is known for its bleached tree ...