Thanks to images in publications such as this and all across the internet, we know what to expect when we arrive at Great ...

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 ...

TOTTORI--Sand sculptors are putting the finishing touches on their gritty masterpieces for a special exhibition opening on April 25 at the Tottori Sand Museum near the Tottori Sand Dunes here.

The prefecture also boasts one of Japan’s largest sand dunes created thousands of years ago. Sand. What exactly is it and where did it come from? And why can we see "Arabian Nights" in Tottori?