Without such an effort, attempting to improve the situation is like building a house on a sand dune.

Other activities are taking place in areas such as sand dune fixation, forest management and the promotion of agroforestry.

They took photographs, they fed the photographs into their computer program, and that computer program shaped a sand dune and then took that sand dune shape and turned it into at their instructions, using standard software with slight modifications a set of instructions for pieces of wood.

According to the reports, soil conservation continues to be given high priority by the organizations in their efforts to preserve the environment, alongside sand dune fixation strategies.

What happens is that the wind blows the sand up the shallow slope on the other side, and then, as each sand grain hits the top of the ridge, it cascades down on the inside of the crescent, and so the whole horn shaped dune moves.

In collaboration with Columbia University, Ben Gurion University had also designed interferometric radars to monitor dune and sand migration and evaluate the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami and the quality of water in the Red Sea.

The way it does this is it comes out at night, crawls to the top of a sand dune, and because it's got a matte black shell, is able to radiate heat out to the night sky and become slightly cooler than its surroundings.

Dune Acres is a town in Westchester Township, Porter County, Indiana, United States.

Now sand is not only on Earth, but sand is ubiquitous throughout the universe. In fact, outer space is filled with sand, and that sand comes together to make our planets and the Moon.

After the success of the novel, attempts to adapt Dune for a film began as early as 1971.

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In that year his first poetry collection, Der Sand aus den Urnen ( Sand from the Urns ), was published in Vienna by A. Sexl.

The sand on the beach is very hot.

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In a desert plain in Tanzania, in the shadow of the volcano Ol Donyo Lengai, there's a dune made of volcanic ash.

The direction of cross bedding in Glen Canyon Group sand dunes suggests that prevailing winds from the north transported the sand into the region.

Finally, today, Sand Monkey delivered the good news saying

As the area behind the coast is a desert, these winds can develop into sand storms with sand deposits in the Atlantic Ocean visible on satellite images.

Sand mounds are particularly advantageous, given coastal areas economic value.

Now something's interesting here. This looks very different than any sand on Earth that I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of sand on Earth, believe me.

In fact, in some areas of the US and other countries, only extensive dune fields and vegetated areas are used to separate buildings from the seashore.

Must we wait and see more children die in the sand?

The temple was covered by a second layer of clean sand.

Sand Lake is a town in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States.

Sami was sleeping in a hole that he dug in the sand.

It is one of the largest expanses of sand in the world.

Sand Fork is a town in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States.

Its increase can also indicate the poor quality of a target sand.

Most of the sand on the Moon, especially and you know when you look at the Moon, there's the dark areas and the light areas. The dark areas are lava flows. They're basaltic lava flows, and that's what this sand looks like, very similar to the sand that you would see in Haleakala.

The most common interpretation of large, chevron shaped bed forms is that they are a form of parabolic dune, and that most examples are generated by wind action.

Elizabethtown is a town in Sand Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States.

Perhaps some of you know it. Some of the words go like this The foolish man built his house upon the sand And the floods came up And the house on the sand went crash.

I went to see the movie Dune, and a girl talked to me. Now, on its face this is impossible on its face, I realize but it is absolutely true.

She doesn't mind because she knows she can't bury her head in the sand.

Sand Lake is a town in Burnett County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

Despite all the oil and gas below the desert sand, growth lagged and unemployment soared.

As far as I can tell, they are simply burying their heads in the sand.

Less frequent is the Sirocco, a hot sand bearing wind, coming from the Sahara Desert.

Halfway between the town and the airport there is a small beach of dark sand.

Every single grain is different. There are no two grains of sand alike in the world.

Putting one's head in the sand and pretending that everyone will benefit from globalization is foolish.

After listening to the speech, Stiletos in the Sand, an American based in Saudi Arabia, writes

Furthermore, Saki poses unique therapeutic mud and Eupatoria has vast empty beaches with the purest sand.

All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.