Project Description: Sand fences are anthropogenic features added to dunes in order to control sand movement and serve as barriers. While simple in structure, sand fences can have a significant impact ...

US president’s golf links and hotel had run into trouble with planning for fencing in protected area of sand dunes ...

Study by UCSB marine scientists demonstrates the ability of natural dune formations at Santa Monica Beach to withstand more ...

Primary dunes are composed of sand blown directly from the beach face (active beach), whereas secondary dunes develop following the subsequent modification of primary dunes. Davies (1980 ...

Donald Trump’s luxury Irish resort has reached a compromise deal with a county council over the erection of temporary fencing ...

Sand is pulled off the beaches and dunes and washed off offshore, where it forms sandbars. These sandbars actually protect the remaining beach, as they make waves break further offshore.

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 ...

This giant sand dune in southern Spain is about ... as the winds continuously make it move and shift. The dune is located on Bolonia Beach on the coast of Cadiz with breathtaking views of the ...