New research from Northwestern University has systematically proven that a mild zap of electricity can strengthen a marine coastline for generations — greatly reducing the threat of erosion in the ...

For years, coastal Alaska communities, a majority of them Alaska Native villages, have contended with erosion, eating away at the land and pulling more and more of the coast into the sea. It's led to ...

A small coastal community in Southwest Washington might be a model for other places facing coastal erosion as the climate changes and sea levels rise. A group of people in North Cove, Washington, ...

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego researchers have uncovered how rain and waves act on different parts of coastal cliffs. Following three years of cliff surveys in and near the ...

MAALAEA — Maalaea Bay’s high shoreline erosion rate is forcing area residents to act soon, but mitigation efforts are often riddled with time, permitting and funding issues, government officials said ...

More than half of America's sandy beaches will vanish by 2100, according to research from the Surfrider Foundation. From California's Pacific shores to Hawaii's North Shore, coastal erosion driven by ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. A sandy bluff towers above the beach in Dillingham, Alaska. Every year, Alaska ...

BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–Massachusetts has more than 1,500 miles of coastline across 78 communities that count nearly 2.5 million people as residents, and the Healey administration on Tuesday mapped out ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. A seawall in Carlsbad / Image via Shutterstock Recent bluff collapses in San Diego have ...

A new process that uses electricity to form a natural cement between grains of sand, transforming it into solid, immoveable rock. Professor Alessandro Rotta Loria; Andony Landivar Macias, former PhD ...

Researchers have always known that waves were an important part of the cliff erosion process, but they haven't been able to separate the influence of waves and rain before. After decades of debate ...