A family living on Chatham Island, a remote archipelago off the eastern coast of New Zealand’s main islands, noticed several ...

Aerial photographs have revealed the extent of coastal erosion in a seaside village over the last two decades.

The vessel, which could date as far back as the late 18th century, was found on the coast of the world's largest inland water ...

Primary dunes are composed of sand blown directly from the beach face (active beach), whereas ... to the formation of incipient dunes (Figure 1, photos 1–3). Incipient foredunes are sometimes ...

Parts of Texas’ shores were unrecognizable after the Category 1 hurricane wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast in July, destroying ...

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 ...

Aa Aa Aa For large-scale coastal dune development there needs to be a suitable wind regime, large reserves of sand and suitable nearshore, beach and ... migrates downwind (Photos 1 and 2).

Every month a group of volunteers, scientists and curious individuals gather at Baldwin Beach or Kapukaulua to observe ...

Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset, is host to a system of natural dunes that provide protection against coastal erosion. But their spread can lead to the build-up of sand, which affects beach access and ...