Behind a long sand wall winding through the disputed Western Sahara, leaders battling for the independence of the former Spanish colony say they are on alert. Morocco insists the territory is an ...

Sand dikes being built across the shores of the Nile Delta to protect coastal communities from flooding, in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, Egypt, 2019. Photo courtesy of UNDP MASTROUA, Egypt, March 22 ...

Researchers in China have found a way to fight desertification by recycling retired wind turbine blades into durable sand barriers. The project is led by the Research Station of Gobi Desert Ecology ...

Barrier islands are Florida’s postcard paradises. And developers keep building on them and people keep moving to them in a ...

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has signed an agreement with Louisiana officials allowing the state to mine 13.4 million cubic yards of sand from Ship Shoal, an underwater sand formation ...

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. — In just three days, Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol came out to recover the barrier that protects the sand dunes it stretches out to about 2 miles across Jacksonville beach. “We ...

The commander formerly in charge of the government’s response to the Gulf oil spill on Thursday denied that President Obama influenced his decision to approve the use of sand barriers off the coast of ...

Two weeks after Hurricane Fiona made landfall in Atlantic Canada on September 24, 2022, Jeff Ollerhead found himself staring at an upended boardwalk in Prince Edward Island National Park. Damaged by ...

MASTROUA, Egypt, March 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The flooding had become inevitable. Every winter, amid heavy rains and storms, the Mediterranean Sea would rise and spill over into fisherman ...