Barrier islands protect coasts with dunes. Storms can flatten them. Nature-based, low-cost solutions offer hope.

Swap snow-covered peaks for rolling dunes at Sand Master Sandboarding Park ... The desert-like landscape is surrounded by the ocean, lakes, rivers, and coastal rainforests, and the biodiversity ...

Shaped by the Central California coastal winds is the vast sandbox known as the Oceano Dunes. Trudging up the 200-foot sand ...

Flower-speckled sand dunes have returned to South Carlsbad State Beach thanks to a successful restoration started a little ...

Aa Aa Aa For large-scale coastal dune development there needs to be a suitable wind regime, large reserves of sand and suitable nearshore, beach and back beach morphology (Pye 1983, Iversen ...

All these sand dunes make up one of the largest sand dune ... Because waves can’t get past the spit, a sheltered area develops behind it. The water isn't moving much here, so it deposits sand ...

Behind many of these beaches are sand dune ... Impacts of humans on sand dunes and coastal environments in Wales Along the coast of south Wales, large scale developments such as the growth of ...

the state intended to let vehicles race around the sand dunes, but it didn’t give off-roaders a special exemption to trample on state laws and coastal planning policies, he said. Those policies, White ...

Coastal erosion at Strandhill has been an ongoing issue for some time. The effects are wearing away the seaside village and causing major safety concerns at the sand dunes. A new survey due in ...

The Center will speak at today’s California Coastal Commission ... Oceano Dunes is managed by the California State Parks’ Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division. The area includes about 1,500 ...