Sand ahoy, Captain! A gigantic dust storm threatens to swamp small boats as Australia’s wild weather continues. The tsunami-like wave of sand could be seen travelling for miles near the town of Onslow ...

A MILLION cubic metres of sand — enough to fill 400 Olympic-size swimming pool — is needed to replenish Adelaide’s most popular beaches, says the agency charged with looking after the state’s ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from SA News. Followed categories will be added to My News. The initial quarter-of-a-million cubic metres is the first step in a 500,000 cubic metre project for West ...

A pipeline to move sand down Adelaide’s coastline to save our beaches is back on the table, and it would cost up to $155m. See all the plans here. After dumping a $38.9m pipeline last year, it on ...

The ABC can reveal that the asbestos contamination of children's play sand was discovered by chance in an Australia laboratory. Regulators in Australia and New Zealand were alerted to the ...

Uncover why Saudi Arabia and the UAE import construction-grade sand from Australia despite their vast deserts. Learn about ...

In parts of South Australia, long stretches of beach are often blanketed in large patches of pink sand. Strong swells can dump drifts of reddish grains of garnet along the shore – but the origin of ...

If you long for the feeling of the sand beneath your toes both on and off the beach, your dream vacation briefly became a reality last week in Australia. In the city of Gold Coast, the world’s first ...

Hundreds of miles of Australia's most popular beaches are shrinking as ocean currents sweep their sands out to sea, to the dismay of millions of surfers. Kingscliff in New South Wales on Australia’s ...