The urge to draw images in sand, or create sand sculptures, seems to be irresistible, as a walk on many a modern beach or dune surface will show. Sand is a vast canvas – and may have been used as one ...

When strolling down the beach, there’s always an urge to draw in the sand – it seems compulsory to make your mark by inscribing something. But there’s a dilemma: how do you go about physically drawing ...

Drawing out large quantities of sand and pebbles means riverbeds lose their ability to retain water, which is crucial for groundwater recharge. “What we see now is just layers of loose material like ...

Big enough to contain over 176 Wembley Stadiums, the giant drawing by Jim Denevan is visible from 40,000 feet up in the sky. Taking 15 days to complete, Mr Denevan and a team of three colleagues ...

The woman behind a sand drawing of the King’s face that took six hours to create and measures 90ft by 65ft described her artwork as “super poignant”. Claire Eason, from Sunderland, was a GP for more ...

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a figure who was doomed to roll a boulder for eternity as a punishment from the gods. Inspired by this, [Aidan], [Jorge], and [Henry] decided to build a sand-drawing ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Michael Franjieh is a linguist, currently employed as a teaching fellow at the School of Oriental and ...

Two nice ladies building castles in the sand with a cute little girl hardly seems like fodder for the police blotter. But this is Malibu, where people call the cops on other people just for sitting on ...

Each time Sangam Mahato passes the excavators scooping up sand from the Aurahi River, it brings back painful memories of her brother, Om Prakash. Also known as ‘Dilip’, her brother had been protesting ...