THE Israeli city of Ashdod has all the features found in a modern metropolis. Shopping malls, theatres, nightclubs, bars, plenty of good schools. But there is something else, too. Every weekend, at ...

Scientists have solved the mysterious absence of star-shaped dunes from Earth's geological history for the first time, dating one back thousands of years. The study by Aberystwyth University, Birkbeck ...

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Rich Whittecar isn’t searching for Blackbeard’s lost treasure in the sand dunes at First Landing State Park. Some people seem to think that when they see him wearing a hard hat and carrying a shovel ...

A satellite image captured from space reveals an extraordinary meeting of two starkly contrasting landscapes in the Sahara ...

Researchers report evidence the formation of K'gari and the Great Barrier Reef are linked to a change in the magnitude of sea-level rise and fall due to major climate feedback changes during the ...

This striking astronaut photo shows off an "eye-catching" impact crater in the Sahara Desert. The oculus-like structure is surrounded by migrating sand dunes that are capable of traveling more than ...

Stretching on for miles upon miles, the sand dunes in Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses National Park are so vast and so blindingly white that it's easy to see how the park got its name—Lençóis Maranhenses ...

The National Trust has warned that the sand dune system at Crantock in Cornwall has undergone a "dramatic" and "noticeable" changes in recent years. Although changes to sand dunes are part of a ...