The Maine Monitor is recapping the 131st Legislature by highlighting legislative bills you should know about. View all of our recaps. Lawmakers changed course and cleared a major hurdle for the ...

The best way to get local winds dialed in is to go to your local spot, check your favorite forecasting apps and see which one ...

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...

Depressions such as impact craters can act as traps for sediments that have been blown in from elsewhere, accumulating in various patterns whipped up by strong winds. The dune field in this unnamed 48 ...

In southern Colorado, Zapata Ranch stretches across a wide, untamed landscape where mountains, prairie, and desert meet. This ...

To see Frank Dudley’s “Across Wind Blown Sands (Indiana Dunes)” is to be transported to the bright shores of Lake Michigan. The lake’s blue and green expanse is glimpsed in the hollow space between ...

Off-roaders are headed to rally in Sacramento Friday to protest recent closures at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area — and propose building a 30- to 50-foot wind fence along the park ...

This isn’t the Sahara or Gobi Desert. This is Colorado. Specifically Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, home of the tallest dunes in North America. “We just had one of our scientists do some ...

A new study has uncovered the mystery of how mini sand dunes form on beaches and in deserts. A new study led by the University of Southampton and research institutes in France has uncovered the ...