America’s towering sand dunes offer breathtaking desert landscapes and thrilling adventures, from Great Sand Dunes National ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to images in publications such as this and all across the internet, we know what to expect when we arrive at Great ...

Flower-speckled sand dunes have returned to South Carlsbad State Beach thanks to a successful restoration started a little ...

KANE COUNTY, Utah (KSTU) — A man who went missing over the weekend after venturing into Coral Pink Sand Dunes in southern Utah was found dead Monday morning. The Kane County Sheriff’s Office ...

The prefecture also boasts one of Japan’s largest sand dunes created thousands of years ago. Sand. What exactly is it and where did it come from? And why can we see "Arabian Nights" in Tottori?

The lizards inhabit a rare ecosystem where they hunt insects and spiders in wind-blown dunes. They burrow into the sand beneath low-lying shinnery oak shrubs for protection from extreme temperatures. ...

Oregon has a Sahara by the sea, and it is one of our most unique coastal geologic wonders, called the Oregon Dunes. This week, we visit its 32,000 acres of sand dunes, forests and estuaries that ...