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 ...

SO WE GET TO USE ALL THAT SAND, SAND THAT WOULD NORMALLY GET TOSSED BACK INTO THE OCEAN WILL INSTEAD BE USED TO REBUILD THE DUNES. THE COUNTY RECENTLY APPROVED NEARLY $8 MILLION TO MAKE THIS ...

Behind many of these beaches are sand dune systems which provide homes for diverse forms of wildlife including plants and insects, some so highly specialised that without these dune habitats ...