BEIJING--Many areas in northern China were blanketed with floating sand and dust on Thursday, and a sandstorm was expected to sweep through parts of Inner Mongolia. The sandy, dusty weather and ...

Floating cities don’t require large amounts of sand to create, preserving a dwindling resource and negating the damage done to the environment in the locales where the sand is sourced and where ...

Tourists clung onto a floating pontoon as a large wave hit the shore. The holidaymakers were on the plastic dock trying to reach a boat when the tide rolled onto the beach in Phuket province, Thailand ...

Hundreds of corpses have been found floating in the river or buried in the sand of its banks. Those who live close to where they have washed up, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, fear they ...