MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI — Construction has started at P.J. Hoffmaster State Park’s visitor center, which will receive a $1.6 million upgrade. Construction crews at Gillette Sand Dune Visitor Center have a ...

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 ...

A European national park is home to a natural wonder that locals say has swallowed an entire village. Slowinski National Park ...

A European national park boasts moving sand dunes so high they swallowed an entire village and forest. Slowinski National ...

With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

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 ...

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 ...