Little Kobuk Sand Dunes, and the Hunt River Dunes. The park lies in Northwest Alaska — just 75 miles to the east of Kotzebue — where, despite the latent threats from climate change and ...

Erin Argyilan was wrapping up a scientific study of wind speeds on Mount Baldy last year when she saw a circle of beachgoers on their knees halfway up the hulking sand dune. They appeared to be ...