An oceanfront home perched on a sand dune on Florida’s Amelia Island hit the market this month for $12.5 million, one of only ...

Owned by financial-services entrepreneur Michael Dubyak, the Amelia Island house has sweeping views of the Atlantic from its ...

In many ways, Merthyr Mawr has the aesthetic of a Cotswolds town like Bibury. Read Next: The antiques-filled valley market ...

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 ...

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 ...