A conveyor belt more than 40 miles long runs from tiny Kermit, Texas, across state borders into Lea County, New Mexico.

Mars has always captured human imagination with its striking red hues and mysterious landscapes. Recent images from NASA’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 ...

Dunes are considered to be essential for coastal protection. In countries like the Netherlands, where one third of the ...

Over time, many beaches will naturally replenish. But sand dunes will take longer. And there are areas where the damage will linger. Cyclone Alfred traveled up and down the coast for a fortnight ...

Behind many of these beaches are sand dune systems which provide homes for diverse forms of wildlife including plants and insects, some so highly specialised that without these dune habitats ...

Oceanside has ruled out one of the three small sites originally proposed for restoring sand dunes and native plants ... is not an exact science, like an experiment in a lab. This is nature.

For photographers across the ocean in the United States, the journey to witness progress toward DUNE takes a subterranean route. The far detector for the experiment is being built deep below the ...

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.

Supervising sound editor Richard King, nominated for an Oscar for the film, explains why he didn’t — and couldn’t — inherit a sound library for the sequel.

but after the Aquitaine’s Dune du Pilat, the tallest sand dune in Europe. The watches pair Christoper Ward's elegant 'light-catcher' case with the rugged do-anything ability of a field watch.