On the western coast of New Zealand’s North Island, less than an hour's drive from bustling Auckland, is an iconic and often rough surf beach with beautiful black sand. Visitors claim that the ...

The ice lagoon’s black-sand beach is punctuated with bits of glacier, giving it an extraterrestrial vibe. And you could go back ever year and take in a new view, sadly, because climate change ...

And black beaches can be found all over the planet, from French Polynesia and Iceland to Greece and New Zealand, so you don’t have to worry about the black sand being the only attraction at the ...

Lineal descendants of Punaluʻu and conservationists devise plans to permanently protect the land on Hawaiʻi island and its ...

It just so happens that on some of New Zealand’s South Island beaches, there are many minerals to be found littered among the "black sand," as it’s known colloquially. These tiny flecks are ...