"Nature-based solutions have been shown to be holistic and sustainable, and they work. Sand dunes will help to mitigate the ...

By 2050, sea levels along the United States coast are expected to rise by 0.25 to 0.30 meters, increasing flooding in ...

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 ...

Aa Aa Aa For large-scale coastal dune development there needs to be a suitable wind regime, large reserves of sand and suitable nearshore, beach and back beach morphology (Pye 1983, Iversen ...

this issue). Sand deposition, accretion, and erosion within the coastal environment result in the development of a variety of dune morphologies; however, a general classification into primary and ...