Scientists have calculated the age of one of the Earth’s oldest dunes for the first time, an advance that could shed more light on climate and wind conditions thousands of years ago. Star dunes are ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology (1962-1982), Vol. 8, No. 6 (December 1969), pp. 874-883 (10 pages) It is suggested that helical roll vortices in the atmosphere are responsible for the formation of the ...

GRAND HAVEN, MI -- The shoreline along Lake Michigan is already beginning its winter transformation, and it isn’t even officially winter yet. A storm packing snow, strong winds and cold temperatures ...

A satellite image captured from space reveals an extraordinary meeting of two starkly contrasting landscapes in the Sahara Desert, right at the border between Algeria and Libya. A vast sea of “star ...

Last summer, Stephanie McNamara got her first glimpse of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. The park is a monument to sand, where dunes stretch across 30 square miles ...

In July 2022, a photograph supposedly showing a sand formation on a beach after it was struck by lightning was posted by the "Curiosity" Twitter account @sciencenature14. The photo was captioned: ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — A local photographer got some great shots of sand formations at Silver Beach in St. Joseph on Monday morning.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has signed an agreement with Louisiana officials allowing the state to mine 13.4 million cubic yards of sand from Ship Shoal, an underwater sand formation ...

Some social media users are sharing a photo they claim shows a fulgurite – a glass structure that can be created when lightning strikes sand or rock. The photo shows an elaborate sand structure on a ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...