Sydney Sweeney has been a very busy woman lately. This summer, her latest thriller, Echo Valley, will be available to Apple TV+ subscription holders, and she has the adaptation of The Housemaid ...

Huge volumes of sand have been swept offshore by Cyclone Alfred’s waves, leaving beaches and dunes looking very different.

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

Port Stephens is just over a two-hour drive from Sydney or a 30-minute drive from Newcastle airport, and is home to pristine beaches, the Tomaree National Park and the Stockton Sand Dunes - the ...

Erin Argyilan was wrapping up a scientific study of wind speeds on Mount Baldy last year when she saw a circle of beachgoers on their knees halfway up the hulking sand dune. They appeared to be ...

What do you picture when you think of the Sahara? A vast expanse of towering sand dunes? The occasional oasis, perhaps? But mostly, we tend to imagine a very sandy landscape. Turns out ...