EditorialSand dunes, pictured on Oct. 25, 2022, have emerged where the Mississippi River usually flows in Greenville, Miss. (Lucy Garrett/The New York Times)
EditorialThe home of Thomas and Kathleen Dennis in Truro, Mass., part of the Cape Cod National Seashore, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The couple has had to move the house twice as the sand dunes near it erode. (Philip Keith/The New York Times)
EditorialSand dunes, pictured on Oct. 25, 2022, have emerged where the Mississippi River usually flows in Greenville, Miss. (Lucy Garrett/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople lay on the beach in front of the new sand dunes in front of the recently-shuttered East Deck Motel in Montauk, N.Y., July 26, 2014 (Jason Andrew/The New York Times)
EditorialDon Riepe, a former manager of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, with his cat in his home on the island of Broad Channel in Queens, on Jan. 15, 2022. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)
EditorialA Border Patrol agent at the border wall in Imperial Sand Dunes Park in California, Oct. 28, 2020. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialA Border Patrol agent at the border wall in Imperial Sand Dunes Park in California, Oct. 28, 2020. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialA Border Patrol agent at the border wall in Imperial Sand Dunes Park in California, Oct. 28, 2020. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialA Border Patrol agent at the border wall in Imperial Sand Dunes Park in California, Oct. 28, 2020. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialSmoke from wildfires in the West hovers above the horizon at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, where stargazers gathered to watch the Perseid meteor shower. (Michael Ciaglo/The New York Times)
EditorialSmoke from wildfires in the West hovers above the horizon at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, where stargazers gathered to watch the Perseid meteor shower. (Michael Ciaglo/The New York Times)