A new school in Ireland is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save the country's disappearing thatched ...

Wexford town shimmered in the distance like a mirage. Standing beyond Raven Point, at the southernmost tip of Curracloe beach ...

A new school in Donegal is training up a fresh generation of thatchers in a bid to save Ireland's disappearing thatched roofs ...

I had no idea how any of this might go. Take three golf buddies from different circles, shake them up for 10 days in a packed Euro van, squeeze them down skinny roads and release them into the ...

Travel blogger and content creator Tara Povey spends her days jetting around the world, but home is always where the heart is ...

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 ...

Work has begun to clear invasive plants to help protect "fragile and precious" species in sand dunes. Diggers are removing two areas of buckthorn, a small spiny tree, from Warkworth Dunes which ...

Students are swapping their textbooks for shovels in a mission to restore sand dunes at Coney Island Creek. It's considered one of the most polluted waterways in New York City. For decades ...

Behind many of these beaches are sand dune systems which provide homes for diverse forms of wildlife including plants and insects, some so highly specialised that without these dune habitats ...

Climb up the dunes and join the fun of gliding down them on sand boards. On the water, you can go kayaking and paddle-boarding, but hang gliding is a possibility if you need even more adrenaline ...

Over time, many beaches will naturally replenish. But sand dunes will take longer. And there are areas where the damage will linger. Cyclone Alfred traveled up and down the coast for a fortnight ...

Forvie Sands is a National Nature Reserve and brilliant bird habitat. All these sand dunes make up one of the largest sand dune systems in Britain. The sands settled here in the sea after the end ...