The Golden State has no shortage of amazing camping spots along its hundreds of miles of coastline. This state beach is one ...

Shaped by the Central California coastal winds is the vast sandbox known as the Oceano Dunes. Trudging up the 200-foot sand piles can be daunting, but if you have a sandboard, you can cover a lot more ...

The North Oceanside Coastal Dune Restoration Pilot Project is the latest effort to address erosion that has steadily reduced ...

Death Valley’s temporary lake, fed by one powerful summer storm, is down to inches as it dwindles in the park’s Badwater Basin. But as it evaporates, other parts of the national park are reopening. In ...

ASHLAND, Ore.— In response to a petition and lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the sand dune phacelia as a threatened species under the ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of spider hiding in plain sight in coastal California’s sand dunes. The arachnologists from UC Davis published their find this month in the journal Ecology and ...

Flower-speckled sand dunes have returned to South Carlsbad State Beach thanks to a successful restoration started a little more than two years ago. Wooden slats and fences were installed in various ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...