Erin Argyilan was wrapping up a scientific study of wind speeds on Mount Baldy last year when she saw a circle of beachgoers on their knees halfway up the hulking sand dune. They appeared to be ...

Shifting sand dunes have forced 150 families from their homes, destroying their livelihoods in Midnimo settlement north of ...

Police believe Sean Nagel was resting underneath a sand dune to film a sunrise when it collapsed on top of him Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at ...

Star dunes - sometimes called pyramid dunes - stand out among sand dunes for their towering height and eye-catching form.

The Indiana Dunes contain sand dunes, prairies ... more conservationists recognized the need to protect the dunes from destruction, efforts were made to highlight their ecological importance.

The Anjuna gram sabha that was held on Sunday initially witnessed chaotic scenes over the passage of the annual budget but ...

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 ...

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.