So they went out and they modeled a computer model of a sand dune.

Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.

But, by now, you're probably asking, how am I planning to solidify a sand dune?

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.

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

We then pull the piles up through the dune and we're able to create almost any conceivable shape inside of the sand with the sand acting as a mold as we go up.

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.

If you want to stop a sand dune from moving, what you need to make sure to do is to stop the grains from avalanching over its crest.

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.

Between 1995 and 1997, AOAD carried out training on land management development, forest management, combating forest fires, alfa grass management, environmental protection, sand dune stabilization and geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing in range studies.

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.

In Madagascar, WFP provided assistance to the Government to help people living in the areas frequently affected by cyclones and drought to improve and sustain their livelihoods through reforestation, sand dune fixation, protection against water erosion and improved wood cooking ranges (Food for Training activities).

Sand stopping devices, made from sand.

Similarly, in Kosovo the international community has devoted little time to helping former combatants contemplate their collective responsibility for atrocities, no matter how direct or indirect their personal involvement. Without such an effort, attempting to improve the situation is like building a house on a sand dune.

Defensive barriers would not necessarily require heavy investment they could be mounds of sand several meters high located along and near the shoreline. 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.

They had to move this village in 1987 as a huge dune threatened to swallow it.

So, we pushed the piles down through the dune, and we create an initial bacterial surface.

He ate some sand.

(Signed) Peter H. Sand

And here comes dune scape, coming up out of the courtyard, and there it is fully built.

First of all, I was embarrassed because I had not read the novel Dune at that time.

So to test this crazy idea, we developed a small dune buggy prototype vehicle to test the feasibility.

She was sitting with someone who I presume was her mother, and they were talking about the novel, Dune.

So, the wind carries the sand onto the site and then it carries the redundant sand away from the structure for us.

We found the footprints in the sand.

Alberta sand oil, a lot of pollution.

I got some sand in my eye.

Other measures identified by Parties included the planting of high biomass crops, such as sugar cane, soil and watershed conservation, rehabilitation of wetlands, forest research, forest management, bans on bush burning during land clearing and the promotion of fast growing tree species, review of current forest and land management policies, forestry legislation, forestry administration plans and tax incentives for encouraging reforestation, and sand dune stabilization.

Borges said that nothing is built on stone, everything is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

It squeeze the moisture hidden in the sand.

As Borges would have it, it's the sand.

Oil sand is not a long term solution.

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

They're like sun shoes, but, you know, with sand.

The desert is there, sand dunes, some small field.

Sand, water, all the equipment we don't need anymore.

Now, sand is a magical material of beautiful contradictions.

How do we glue those grains of sand together?

There is sand at the bottom of the ocean.

So let's make architectural sand dunes and a beach cabana.

Yet my large, soft feet allow me to navigate sand.

And on top of the coral reefs are sand banks.

The smooth stones on the sand are familiar to us.

As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born.