Understanding how sand dunes form is difficult—trying to replicate the process in a lab grows unwieldy and models created using computers are difficult to prove correct. For that reason, little ...

This New 320-acre Desert Camp Is Near the Tallest Sand Dunes in North America and a Lesser-known National Park — and It Opens in June Welcome to Dunes Desert Camp. You'll never want to leave.

Desert hikes abound at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, at the Colorado National Monument, Mount Garfield, the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area, and Gunnison Gorge ...

Viewed from space, the western edge of the Sahara Desert looks like another world. Its abundance of red-tinged sand turns into a sea of dunes that ebb and flow with the wind, unabated by foliage ...

Salam Almazrouei grew up in the Empty Quarter maze of sand dunes on Abu Dhabi’s border with Saudi Arabia. Now he’s sharing his desert knowledge with visitors to a luxury glamping site like no ...

Japan’s least populated prefecture is home to the Tottori Sand Dunes, a desert landscape that is now carefully protected by the government.

They are among the wonders of our deserts: star dunes, the vaguely pyramid-shaped sand formations up to about 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall with arms stretching out from a central peak to give them ...