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

Their roots act to stabilize the sand. Healthy dunes covered in vegetation are normally harder to erode. But as beaches are washed away during large storms and the water level rises, larger waves can ...

As sand dunes establish, plants start to form and grow ... Whenever humans interfere with natural ecosystems, the natural nutrient and water cycles are also altered. In addition, the natural ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and characterize life and its biosignatures in frozen sand dunes in Alaska, under ...

The frost prevents the wind from picking up sand, so the dunes can't migrate until spring arrives. Pictures of the frozen ...

I didn’t unpack the aircraft until we got out there and set up camp under the stars in the valleys between the dunes. Lake water percolates through the sand, so you can drink freshwater out of ...

When you think of sand dunes, you might think of the ocean, but on the southern shore of Lake Michigan, there are plenty of dunes — and more! — at Indiana Dunes National Park. Spanning 15 miles of the ...

So much of nature is just as ominous as it is beautiful. And that’s definitely true of the sand dunes in Slowinski National Park, Poland. Set along the country’s Baltic coastline, the 186.18 ...

Work has begun to clear invasive plants to help protect "fragile and precious" species in sand dunes. Diggers are removing two areas of buckthorn, a small spiny tree, from Warkworth Dunes which ...

Their roots act to stabilize the sand. Healthy dunes covered in vegetation are normally harder to erode. But as beaches are washed away during large storms and the water level rises, larger waves ...