Clearly you can’t visit the sand planet of Arrakis and maybe you wouldn’t want to. It’s hot, it’s dry, and you can’t walk in ...

Sand grains that are very round and dry (moisture on the dune's surface can cause sand to clump together, inhibiting avalanching) Grains on the dune's surface that are "well sorted," meaning they ...

Great Sand Dunes may not be the most talked about national park out there, but it is definitely worth the drive. I’ve vanlifed south to the north all of Colorado in the dead of winter to early spring.

Appearances can be deceiving. At first glance, you'd never think the rolling white sand dunes of southeastern New Mexico and west Texas held the largest stand of oak in the country. The region'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 ...

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 ...

Sand dunes are a natural part of the habitat at Sandbanks and help prevent flooding and coastal erosion Views are being sought on the future of sand dunes at a popular tourist hotspot. Sandbanks ...

This location provided a series of challenges for the Earth from Space crew. Not least because of the desert-like sand dunes that spread out for miles beyond the horizon, but because the weather ...

Aa Aa Aa For large-scale coastal dune development there needs to be a suitable wind regime, large reserves of sand and suitable nearshore, beach and back beach morphology (Pye 1983, Iversen ...

Lauded Australian singer-songwriter Gordi - the recording moniker of Sophie Payten - shares a new EP Lunch at Dune. The EP ...

With sand dunes and wineries, boutiques and breweries ... The full lineup for summer 2023 hasn’t been announced at press time, but it already includes blues legend Buddy Guy, who always puts on a ...

In Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" films, the Atreides and Harkonnens find themselves at war over the titular desert planet of Arrakis as part of a larger plot orchestrated by the influential Bene Gesserit.