Five ATV-Free Dunes You Can Play On. August 11, 2007. If you'd rather feel the sand between your fingers and toes than beneath four wheels, ...

MOSES LAKE, Wash. – Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits drove their lunar truck up a steep sand dune in a barren, wind-swept landscape so forbidding it was reminiscent of the surface of the moon ...

Sand dunes are rarely isolated. They form in large groups known as dune fields, whispering in the desert wind or flowing with the water on a seabed. Now researchers have discovered that dunes ...

Sand dunes are among nature’s loveliest wonders, forming undulating mounds in deserts, on beaches, and even underwater. Dunes are also known to migrate—and now a new study suggests that they ...

This rare plant is found exclusively on dunes found along the Columbia River in central Washington. Gray cat’s eyes are threatened by habitat loss to dams, agriculture and off-road vehicles. Other ...