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 two properties on the island asking more than $10 million.

Atlas Energy Solutions, a Texas-based oil field company, installed a 67km-long conveyor belt to transport millions of tonnes of sand for hydraulic fracturing. The belt the company named “The Dune ...

These dunes are the reason Piscinas has been nicknamed the “Little Sahara of Italy” and has some of the highest sand dunes in Europe. Piscinas is surrounded by sand dunes formed by the ...