NOGAHABARA DUNES — From a molded seat of sand dug into the western rim of a 5-mile oval of desert, I’m looking out over a sea of tan waves. Spruce spears stick up here and there through the sand. On ...

Dune 7 in the Namib Desert is one of the highest sand dunes in the world. Towering at over 1,000 feet, it offers an ...

The Navajo Nation is being buried in sand. A third of that land is now covered with sand dunes as a result of climate change. Roads carouse for livestock; even entire homes have been enveloped, ...

A teenager who became trapped after a sand dune collapsed and buried him on Saturday has died, the National Park Service said in a statement. The 17-year-old boy from Chesapeake, Virginia, whose ...

Chile's Atacama desert is best known for its salt lagoons in the north, but head to the Mar de Dunas in the southern part and you will be rewarded with perfect wind-sculptured wave patterns as far as ...

In Southern Colorado, the Great Sand Dunes are alive with the sound of music. The tallest dunes in North America rise above 750 feet — a surreal landscape that sings on scorching summer days. For that ...

You might think sand dunes stand still. But as you read this, Northern Nevada's Winnemucca Dunes are moving. Every year, ever so slowly, they migrate about 23 feet to the east. The state’s largest ...

Drive an hour or so southeast out of the city of Abu Dhabi toward the emirate’s empty deserts and you’ll hit a landscape full of unexpected man-made creations. The region of Al Wathba is home to a ...

The annual Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) offers a superb opportunity to check out a wide range of projects from around the world. Featuring everything from landscape projects to towers and high-end ...

Background and Aims Over very short spatial scales, the habitat of a species can differ in multiple abiotic and biotic factors. These factors may impose natural selection on several traits and can ...