When we think of the word sustainability, we typically picture forests, climate or wildlife. We’re keenly aware of the need to manage these natural resources wisely if we expect them to last. We ...

As building blocks go, pancakes fall low on the list. But a successful sand castle, I learned, starts with pancakes. A tall stack. Turns out those plastic molds I had packed with sand — only to dump ...

Janel Hawkins spends hours building intricate structures — and destroys them not long after. Such is the life of a professional sand castle builder. As the owner of Sand Castle University, she spends ...

Jose Luis Gutierrez of Modesto builds a sand castle on Crown Beach in Alameda on Thursday, with a spit of land that is part of the city beyond and the skyline of San Francisco in the background. Crown ...

When Viola Connelly and her friend Casey Metzler, both 10, enter the annual Saltaire Sandcastle Contest on Fire Island, the girls from Manhattan and Brooklyn choose a timely theme — they craft an ...

The first time I met Randall Koerv, someone had just squashed his sandcastle. As I walked up to introduce myself, he was whittling away at the crushed mound, trying to reconstruct the crumbled spires ...

When you bring together a stunning subject and a talented artist, you get something truly magical. Australian photographer Emma McEvoy, from Melbourne, is well known for her hauntingly beautiful ...

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One of the highest achievements of the new wave of Kirghiz cinema, which emerged in the mid-1960s. This story of a boy building sandcastles on the shores of the Issyk-Kul Lake becomes a documentary ...