When Ogden Dunes began hardening the shoreline against Lake Michigan’s attacks, Save the Dunes drew a line in the sand.

NASA has released a striking 360-degree panorama taken by the Curiosity roverfrom the base of Namib Dune in the Bagnold Dune Fieldon Mars. Although the images were originally captured in 2015 ...

When we think of Indian deserts, we only think of Thar. Not many people know but there is also a small desert in Tamil Nadu. Called Theri, it only exists on the Tiruchendur, Thoothukudi district, and ...

With help from collaborators around the world, Hasson assembled hundreds of scanning electron microscope images of sand grains, representing material from the most common terrestrial environments: ...

Intriguingly, SandAI surmised that the ancient sand grains had been shaped and deposited as part of a windblown sand dune – in agreement with some manual microtextural studies.

Kahl developed a diagram showing how sand moves along the region’s coast and he’s been sharing this with communities across southern California confronting beach loss. “We have a lot of sand going in ...

This results in the accumulation of sand particles at different positions on the roadbed, ultimately forming sand burial. Flowing and semi-flowing sand dunes are prone to sand burial. Wind erosion ...

Imperial College London and NASA researchers have found signs that water was plentiful in Mars’ Gale crater for longer than previously thought.

Sand Dunes National Park officials search for solutions to parking problems, visitation spike “Current conditions are not acceptable,” the superintendent said ...

From the ground, star dunes look like towering, pyramid-shaped mounds of sand. But when viewed from above, their namesake shape becomes more obvious: Tendrils of sand radiate out from a central ...

To determine the star dune’s age, the team used luminescence dating techniques to pinpoint the last time that minerals in the sand were exposed to sunlight.