Commonwealth leaders wrapped up their global meeting in Samoa with an oceans declaration and intent to move beyond words to ...

Blackpool is to get a further £11m for its sea defences to address the problem of sand being washed away. The Environment ...

The flood barriers built since an infamous 1953 North Sea flood have kept the tide at bay ever since. One local resident ...

Sea levels then may have been as much ... surge barriers had been built—and strengthened with sand dunes at both ends along the low-lying coastal areas—there would have been no flooding ...

These low-lying islands are believed to be under ... is to cultivate foraminifera in order to increase sand production, thereby restoring the islands' natural abilities to deal with the rising sea ...

Dredging of seabed mud for export is clearly nonsense. Mud is not material that can be used to reclaim beaches or make islands. Waves will simply wash it back into the sea. The main material for ...

There you see the broken sea wall, crumbled by floods that, in recent years, covered the runways and shut down the airport temporarily. You see sand piled ... "By lying on his back in the bilge ...

As sea levels rise, so does the water table. Low-lying areas in Kihei ... being undermined or stopping floodwaters from draining. Sand bags armor the shoreline in Kahana during an afternoon ...

Rising sea levels due to climate change is already threatening to submerge many small islands. Dredging sand from low-lying coastal areas will only accelerate the process. Dozens of islands have ...

But because the beach is being reduced to only a low-lying ... washed out to sea, Hiwat says. Climate change isn’t the only driver behind Braamspunt’s shrinking, Hiwat says; sand mining ...

Groynes - low lying structures which trap sand and dissipate wave energy - will ... This will address beach levels, ensuring that the life of the sea defences in that area are prolonged, the ...