Most people who have swum in the ocean know that waves are nothing to trifle with, and some pack enormous power. The relentless pounding of waves on shores can cause erosion, and the movement of ocean ...

Waves and surf along the California coast are getting bigger and taller because of global warming, a new study released this week suggests. In fact, winter wave heights along the Golden State have ...

Undersea earthquakes and volcanic eruptions displace destructive amounts of water and send it across oceans to flood distant ...

Ocracoke Island is facing major erosion around the busy ferry terminal that connects it to Hatteras. But proposals to move ...

The erosion could reduce the ocean’s ability to absorb more than 14 million tons of CO2 per year by century’s end, the researchers found. A typical passenger car emits about 5 tons of CO2 per ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Parts of Ocean Beach are disappearing because of shifting sands and rising sea levels. Extreme El Niño conditions and strong wave forces can speed up erosion at twice the normal ...

In Rodanthe, N.C., ten houses have fallen into the ocean since 2020 in an erosion-plagued stretch of the Outer Banks. The National Parks Service is urging people to avoid the water because of debris.

At the current rate of how things are going, there is a big possibility that Chile may end up losing 10 of its beaches due to ...

Chile's central and southern coastlines are facing erosion that could cause at least 10 beaches to disappear within a decade, according to a team of scientists in the South American country, which ...

In the case of the Ocean Beach erosion problem, two visionaries — one a federal engineer, the other an academic economist — have independently come up with a solution that may give us a renewed beach, ...