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

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 ...

(AP Photo/Julio Cortez) A sand dune is backdropped by Atlas Energy plant at the beginning of a 42-mile conveyor belt that carries sand needed for hydraulic fracturing Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in ...

To meet its growing energy and water demands, xAI is building an $80 million greywater facility that will repurpose wastewater from a nearby treatment plant. The company is also seeking approval ...

Their roots act to stabilise 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 ...

But one beach remains relatively unknown despite having incredible sand dunes and overlooking what is probably the finest coastal castle in Britain. The beach in question is Ross Back Sands ...

Waves as high as "three or four-storey buildings" whipped up by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred have gouged millions of cubic metres of sand from about ... metres high in some dunes, including on ...

As for the locals, opinions over the nudists, who normally nestle among the sand dunes at the back of the beach, are mixed. “It really doesn’t bother me at all knowing they are there.

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