A vast elemental expanse surrounded by sand dunes. In the distance is Burgh Island, with its celebrated art deco hotel. Bantham is unusual as a surfing beach on Devon's south coast. They say it's ...

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 ...

Devon has some of the UK’s finest beaches ... Just behind Saunton Sands is Braunton Burrows, the largest sand dune system in England and home to more than 400 unique dune plant species, with ...

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.

A vast elemental expanse surrounded by sand dunes. In the distance is Burgh Island, with its celebrated art deco hotel. Bantham is unusual as a surfing beach on Devon's south coast. They say it's the ...