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 ...

Behind many of these beaches are sand dune systems which provide homes for diverse forms of wildlife including plants and insects, some so highly specialised that without these dune habitats ...

Students are swapping their textbooks for shovels in a mission to restore sand dunes at Coney Island Creek. It's considered one of the most polluted waterways in New York City. For decades ...