It's like watching a natural disaster in slow motion, he said. “It’s a city surrounded by an ocean of sand that’s advancing every minute,” El Wely, the president of the local Association for ...

Extracting sand can harm marine life by clouding water and riling sediment that can smother seagrasses and coral. Disrupting spans of ocean sand can fragment habitat, change the patterns of waves ...

Iceland is known for its breathtaking landscapes, from volcanoes to glaciers, but one of its most famous beaches is also one ...

The many colors of nature and wildlife collide as birds and crabs scurry for food and the sun sets over the ocean and sand at ...

Sea-level rise is threatening San Francisco’s shores. In February, the city began vegetating the sand dunes as part of its ...

An excavator has reopened the ocean inlet to San Elijo Lagoon, helping to remove water that was backing up and flooding area ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will spend the next seven weeks improving public access to Ocean Beach and ...

It's like watching a natural disaster in slow motion, he said. “It’s a city surrounded by an ocean of sand that’s advancing every minute,” El Wely, the president of the local Association ...

“There are places that I walk now that I remember being the roofs of houses when I was a kid.” He remembers that once, when enough sand blew into his neighbourhood to cover the palms used to make ...