Cape Cod's contours have never stood still and never will. Here’s why erosion matters, what’s at stake, and the hard ...

Coastlines are constantly changing. Waves continuously wash ashore and pull sand out to sea. When more sand is pulled away than is naturally replaced, the process is called coastal erosion. Coastal ...

New research has systematically demonstrated that a mild zap of electricity can strengthen a marine coastline for generations -- greatly reducing the threat of erosion in the face of climate change ...

Falmouth is among several Cape Cod towns looking at short- and long-term solutions to coastal erosion. Here's what that looks ...

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 ...

While everyone loves a good beach day, our coastlines are changing — and not in a good way. A new study, summarized by Down to Earth, shows that one-third of the world's sandy coastlines have been ...

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 ...

Escorca coast, Serra de Tramuntana (Balearic Islands). Image by Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola, CC BY-SA 3.0, Escorca coast, Serra de Tramuntana (Balearic Islands). Image by Vicenç Salvador Torres ...