Botany professor emeritus Timm Hoffman and his colleagues are seeing eddies of dune sand piling up around quiver trees at study sites in northwestern South Africa. Hoffman has been studying the iconic ...
Donated Christmas trees are getting a second life at Surfside Beach, where local volunteers use them to help rebuild the ...
Analysis - The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot - the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising number of around 200 beetle species live on its bare, inhospitable ...
The Oceano Dunes District of California State Parks is spreading hay across parts of the dunes to try to prevent blowing dust ...
Depressions such as impact craters can act as traps for sediments that have been blown in from elsewhere, accumulating in various patterns whipped up by strong winds. The dune field in this unnamed 48 ...
Flower-speckled sand dunes have returned to South Carlsbad State Beach thanks to a successful restoration started a little more than two years ago. Wooden slats and fences were installed in various ...
CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - The big guns at Fort Macon are silent, but Christmas trees are stepping up to defend the dunes ...
With snow in the forecast, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is reminding everyone not to sled on the dunes. "Dunes contain fragile wildlife habitat and provide ...