If you've ever looked closely at a 3-D sand or sediment dune within a river or coastal area, did you wonder how it formed? The group's work was inspired in part by the impact of the Three Gorges Dam, ...

LANZHOU -- Scientists have recently revealed the formation and evolution mechanisms of megadunes on a global scale, shedding light on the long-standing scientific question of how high loose sand can ...

Dune restoration is becoming increasingly important due to rising sea levels and stronger storms. Paul Berghuis and colleagues from NIOZ and Utrecht University showed in the dunes of Texel that dune ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A windy day on the beach can leave you a sandy mess with sand everywhere from in your clothes to sand in your hair. Windy beach days, however, can be very important to a beach's ...

On a cold winter day in December 2007, a bulldozer flattened nearly 40 acres (16 hectares) of Inner Mongolia's Tengger Desert. It was the start of a unique experiment: For the first time, scientists ...

The dunes of White Sands National Monument stretch for hundreds of miles in New Mexico. Greg Vaughn / VW PICS/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images The White Sands Dune Field is desolate and ...

Seabirds help shape coastal islands by fertilizing plants with nutrient-rich guano, which boosts vegetation that traps sand and builds dunes.

After noticing how the construction of dams significantly alter the hydrodynamics of natural rivers and the resulting downstream riverbed evolution, researchers decided to apply numerical simulations ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 10, 2019 -- If you've ever looked closely at a 3D sand or sediment dune within a river or coastal area, did you wonder how it formed? After noticing how the construction of ...