A more than 40-mile long conveyor belt filled with sand stretches from the oil fields of West Texas to New Mexico, all for the purpose of one mission: oil production ...

a 100-meter-long test dune was raised on the coast near Monster. A hybrid dune, consisting of a combination of sand and hard ...

"Dunes are not just a pile of sand, they're actually complex systems ... "It was frightening to have this massive monster swell eating away at the whole coastline, and a king tide coming, and ...

Police believe Sean Nagel was resting underneath a sand dune to film a sunrise when it collapsed on top of him Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at ...

Sand dunes often provide the backdrop for a scenic ... trees to help protect villages and farms from the encroaching sand monster, which advances each year and is said to have engulfed houses ...

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 ...