There's no shortage of breathtaking outdoor adventures waiting to be enjoyed in California, and the Golden State's largest dunes are another to add to the list.

In the heart of Dasht-e Kavir, a large desert in Iran, there is an enormous area of sand dunes known as Rig-e Jenn. At about 1,400 square miles, it is said to be one of the most impossible areas ...

This giant sand dune in southern Spain is about 98 feet high and 656 feet wide, making it one of Europe's largest sand dunes. What is perhaps even more fascinating is what hides beneath it.

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 ...

Atlas Energy Solutions, a Texas-based oil field company, has installed a 42-mile long (67 kilometers) conveyer belt to ...

Aa Aa Aa For large-scale coastal dune development there needs to be a suitable wind regime, large reserves of sand and suitable nearshore, beach and back beach morphology (Pye 1983, Iversen ...

Beaches in southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales are scarred by dramatic sand cliffs, but there is good news.

Impacts of humans on sand dunes and coastal environments in Wales Along the coast of south Wales, large scale developments such as the growth of towns and cities, expansion of transport networks ...

Their roots act to stabilize the sand. Healthy dunes covered in vegetation are normally harder to erode. But as beaches are washed away during large storms and the water level rises, larger waves ...