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 ...

Vodry was taken to a local hospital but later died. It comes just a few months after Vodry nearly died in a crash at Silver Lake Sand Dunes. Vodry worked at Kaz Transmissions in Plainfield ...

In Hawaii and Iceland, primary succession occurs on lava flows where new land has formed; in Canada’s Athabasca Dunes ... in time. The dunes farthest from the lake were the oldest and had been stable ...

Listen to croaking sand Unlike the haunting so-called booming sands that Marco Polo and others discovered among the isolated dunes of storied deserts, the noises sand makes are not always mellifluous.

Sand dunes are a natural part of the habitat at Sandbanks and help prevent flooding and coastal erosion Views are being sought on the future of sand dunes at a popular tourist hotspot. Sandbanks ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A 21-year-old Rockford-area man is recovering after his dirt bike collided head-on with an SUV ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert ... NASA satellites showed water rushing in to fill Lake Iriqui, a famous lake bed ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara ... water rushing in to fill Lake Iriqui, a famous lake bed between ...

The sands dunes have made way for housing and roads in the past 150 years A project to restore sand dunes in Lancashire has been hailed a success by conservationists. Over the last 150 years ...

Today, Narabeb is a landscape dominated by long sand dunes that tower more than 100 metres high over the former lake site. There is no standing water here and the landscape receives little to no rain ...

Vodry was taken to a local hospital but later died. Speeding motorcyclist killed in Plainfield Township crash It comes just a few months after Vodry nearly died in a crash at Silver Lake Sand Dunes.