For the next eight weeks, the barge will dredge sand from the ocean floor and pump it towards the beaches in an effort to replace the 4 million cubic metres of sand washed away during the cyclone.

At sunset the drivers headed home, leaving behind splotches of oil on the sand and track marks scarring the dunes. But Amar said the gas-guzzling sport was not necessarily in conflict with nature.

The 3,000-acre Silver Lake State Park features nearly three miles of shoreline and about 2,000 acres of dunes, plus forest, hiking trails, and campgrounds. You'll find soft sand for laying out and ...

CNN’s Bijan Hosseini tries sandboarding down Qatar’s desert dunes, and takes in the scenery of the breathtaking UNESCO-recognized inland sea. Greenland lawmakers form a new government on the ...

has installed a 42-mile long conveyer belt to transport millions of tons of sand for hydraulic fracturing. The belt the company named “The Dune Express” runs from tiny Kermit and across state ...

Located near Great Sand Dunes national park, the Trujillo Homestead and The Medano Zapta Ranch have a history dating back to Paleo Indians, with early Spanish explorers, New Mexican sheep herders and ...