Stillsuits. Sandworms. Telepathic preborn babies. The weird world of Dune is a wonder to behold. For those who haven’t seen the first Dune, it is hard to discuss what unfolds in Part Two without ...

The project will conserve almost 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres) of sand dunes – some 35% of the total for England and Wales – and improve access for the public.

The equations reveal that plants can transform a barchan dune into a parabolic dune when θ has a value less than 0.5 and plant-growth trumps erosion. Conversely, if θ is greater than 0.5, wind-induced ...

OCEANA COUNTY, MI - Shifting sand dunes have claimed another home near Silver Lake. The home in the 1900 block of North Shore Drive in Golden Township has been reduced to a mass of rubble as sand ...

Vast sand dunes near the northern pole of Mars are not frozen relics of a distant past, but shift and change every Martian year, data have shown. A hi-tech camera aboard Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance ...

The sand dunes, spread over an area of eight hectares between Pamban and Othhapatti, are particularly subject to this shifting process, say locals. In earlier days, a good amount of casuarina ...

A sand dune on Mars changes over the course of two seasons. (Image courtesy Science/AAAS). A Texas-sized field of sand dunes around Mars's north pole -- long thought to be a static, unchanging ...

A scheme to reverse declines in wildlife-rich dune habitats by getting the sands shifting again has been given a £4 million funding boost. The project “dynamic dunescapes”, backed by the funding from ...