EditorialWooden fencing installed to help retain sand on the dune in front of the Utah Beach Landing Museum in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, France, May 22, 2023. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
EditorialWooden fencing installed to help retain sand on the dune in front of the Utah Beach Landing Museum in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, France, May 22, 2023. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
EditorialWooden fencing installed to help retain sand on the dune in front of the Utah Beach Landing Museum in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, France, May 22, 2023. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
EditorialWooden fencing installed to help retain sand on the dune in front of the Utah Beach Landing Museum in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, France, May 22, 2023. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
EditorialA sound engineer throws sand to demonstrate how sounds were made for the movie “Dune,” in Death Valley National Park in California, March 8, 2022. (Peter Fisher/The New York Times)
EditorialA U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to build a dune to protech the Shoalwater Bay Reservation in Tokeland, Wash., on Sept. 21, 2022. (Tailyr Irvine/The New York Times)
EditorialA campground at the foot of Dune du Pilat smolders after wildfires swept through the area near Arcachon, France on July 19, 2022. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialLa For?t campground burned out by wildfires at the foot of Dune of Pilat near Arcachon, France, on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialA member of the Secret Services speaks to Delaware State Troopers on a sand dune as President Joe Biden arrives at Gordons Pond State Park in Rehoboth Beach, Del., on June 17, 2022. (Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times)