Climate change and rising sea levels are wreaking havoc on the ... minerals to form a natural cement between seawater-soaked ...

The size of the grains of sand, the amount of sand deposited ... Those losses are accelerating with the advent of sea-level rise and the increasingly fierce storms associated with climate change.

Powerful Sea of Japan winds and strong currents pushed the sand back up along the coastline ... And these self-organizing individual grains create ever-shifting wave-shaped ripples on the dune ...