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Rob Sand, Iowa’s auditor, is campaigning for governor with a pragmatic message that eschews strict partisanship. Rob Sand, Iowa’s auditor, has amassed a formidable war chest, out-raising all his ...

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Erin Argyilan was wrapping up a scientific study of wind speeds on Mount Baldy last year when she saw a circle of beachgoers on their knees halfway up the hulking sand dune. They appeared to be ...

The first time Sumaira Abdulali tangoed with the sand mafia, it was 2004. She was 43 years old and enjoying time with her husband and two kids at the family’s holiday home on the western coast of ...

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Being in a bunker is no fun. But being in a bunker when you’re unable to adapt to the conditions of the sand? That’s even worse. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve entered a greenside bunker and ...

California is a place of magnificent tectonic forces that lift mountains only for them to be constantly eroded by glaciers, wind and rain, ground down to one of the most basic commodities on Earth: ...

Refined iron sand is an epic-tier crafting currency in Black Myth: Wukong, and you won’t be able to pick any up until midway through the game. In this Black Myth: Wukong guide, we’ll tell you what you ...

Shorelines worldwide have always been vulnerable to coastal erosion, a phenomenon rendered more ominous by rising sea levels that accompany modern-day climate change (SN: 9/29/22). Coastal engineers ...