Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of ...

Fresh from church on a cool, overcast Sunday morning in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, Alex Glover slides onto the plastic bench of a McDonald’s booth. He rummages through his knapsack, then pulls out a ...

The sand that was used to construct the Burj Khalifa was not taken from the desert that surrounds it. It was imported from Australia (Photo by Rustam Azmi/Getty Images) The Burj Khalifa is an ...

California is a place of magnificent tectonic forces that lift mountains only for them to be constantly eroded by glaciers, wind and rain, ground down to one of the most basic commodities on Earth: ...

If you haven’t done it already, it's time to add dust storms to your long list of the worst environmental crises of the 21st century that we are not prepared for. Sand and dust storms occur when ...

SPRUCE PINE, N.C. — Rob Hamrick could sell sand to the desert. He has, in fact, shipped 4,000 tons of it from a tiny community tucked in the Blue Ridge Mountains to an exclusive golf course in Dubai.

Sand is being shipped from a quarry in Palm Springs to San Clemente’s North Beach, a test case to see how the desert grains hold up at the shore. The Orange County Transportation Authority’s initial ...

The sand pillars "made it seem like a different planet." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Bizarre sandy sculptures rising from the ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When governments find themselves fighting the threat of coastal erosion, their default response tends to be ...

If you're planning a beach vacation, you'd better get to it soon. An alarming statistic for you: 67% of Southern California beaches? GONE by 2100. All because of sand. Even if you don't think about ...