An entire town in Finland could very well get a lot of its heat from a giant sand battery before too long. The new battery has officially been announced and will be built by Polar Night Energy. It's a ...

On the edge of a small town in Western Finland, a startup called Polar Night Energy worked with a local utility to pioneer something that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world: a giant sand battery ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. — A giant sand-sculpted menorah by the Juno Beach Pier has been destroyed and defaced with a swastika, according to Rabbi Leib Ezagui with the Jewish Community Synagogue. A beachgoer ...

WESTERLY — Three giant sand sculptures in Westerly and Charlestown are harbingers of an international competition slated for Columbus Day weekend at Misquamicut State Beach. The competition, called ...

SEA BRIGHT - The owners of several of the borough's iconic beach clubs built massive sand piles to protect the properties from winter storms, but some now worry those sand berms could end up harming ...

A giant tree made of entirely of sand joins the West Palm Beach skyline for the second year in a row.Sculptors, who are based out of Sarasota and collectively call themselves Sandtastic, started ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A 25-foot sand sculpture of President Barack Obama brings some of the beach to the Democratic National Convention's host city. But landlocked Charlotte is nearly 200 miles from the ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) – A retired sand sculptor helped a group of college students captivate the community. "There's lots to like. There's lots to love. But what I really like is the actual physical ...

Giant Sand often gets lumped in with the many alternative rock acts that, in Nirvana's wake, enjoyed a surge in popularity. But unlike its grungy peers, the Arizona band found its inspiration in the ...

Giant Sand’s recent Cover Magazine (Thrill Jockey), a charmingly erratic all-covers album, is surely the slightest record ever produced by Howe Gelb’s twisted Tucson roots-rock combo. But it’s a ...

For over 30 years, Howe Gelb has been releasing dusty, folky desert-rock with his band Giant Sand. And now, as Pitchfork reports, Giant Sand are to be no more. “30 years seems an adequate number to ...