Coastal erosion is the natural wearing away of shorelines by waves, tides and wind, reshaping beaches and cliffs over time.

It's no secret that San Diego County, and all of California, has had an active winter along the coast. From high tides to big waves, made even bigger by storms, there has been flooding statewide with ...

For as long as David Cottrell could remember, his hometown had been falling into the sea. In the early 1960s, when Cottrell was 3 years old, an abandoned US Coast Guard station teetered over the water ...

Conservation is bringing back certain predators that are high in the food chain, but how this affects an ecosystem overall is debated. Rigorous fieldwork provides strong evidence that sea otters help ...

As efforts step up to protect coastal regions affected by erosion, scientists have found an unexpected way to protect communities—zapping the shoreline with electricity. In a study published in the ...

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In Southwest Michigan along the Lake Michigan shoreline, full- and part-time residents are losing more of their backyards every year — and the changing climate and weather patterns are making the ...

The first Nor'easter of the season is moving up the East Coast, potentially hitting Rhode Island late Sunday or early Monday.

A powerful nor’easter making its way up the Eastern Seaboard is gaining strength as tens of millions of people from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast and New England brace for heavy rain, damaging ...