THERE’S a little-known beach in Italy that looks like the Sahara Desert. With huge golden sands, dunes and beautiful blue waters, it’s one of the most beautiful places to go on ...

A unique combination of sand and snow transformed ... “a ridge of snowy, undulating dunes” while other ridges are shadowed in soft cornflower blue. “Conifer and cottonwood trees are at ...

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 ...

Sand Mountain blue butterflies live in only one place on Earth — within and near the dunes of “Singing” Sand Mountain in Nevada. But over the past three decades, extensive off-road vehicle use on ...

Oceanside has ruled out one of the three small sites originally proposed for restoring sand dunes and native plants to beaches between the city’s harbor and municipal pier. The area in front of ...

Dan Hentschel in the Desert refers to a photograph of comedian Dan Hentschel wearing a headband and making a pouting expression while standing in the middl ...

A worker at Great Sand Dunes National Park told The Denver Post on Friday that park officials had received verbal approval to hire seasonal positions for the summer. The worker spoke on the ...

It has soft golden sands, clear blue waters, and the beach stretches ... “Little Sahara of Italy” and has some of the highest sand dunes in Europe. Piscinas is surrounded by sand dunes ...