Sand is among the most used natural resources on Earth, second only to water. It's an essential component of cell phones, concrete, glass, cosmetics, roads, and many other modern conveniences. For one ...

New Jersey has used sand as a coastal defense more than any other state in the last decade. The beach replenishment projects have cost $500 million in Monmouth and Ocean County alone. Critics argue ...

An 18-year-old man from Maine died Tuesday on a beach near Toms River, New Jersey, when the hole he was digging in the sand collapsed, the Asbury Park Press reported earlier this week. In 2017 in ...

Fluorescent-colored sand sprinkled on San Diego County beaches could help reveal the complicated patterns of erosion that plague the region’s coastline. A so-called “tracer study” would use ...

Gone are the bonfires, the volleyball nets and the sunbathers from some sand-depleted beaches in Southern California. Memories are all that’s left, as the force of the ocean’s waves menace homes, ...

The U.S Army Corps of Engineers has received bids for the long-delayed beach replenishment work in northern Ocean County, although there is no timeline for when a contract will be awarded and work ...

Transnational security investigator Abdelkader Abderrahmane set out from the Moroccan city of Kenitra with two research assistants to inspect sand-mining sites on the Atlantic Ocean coast. They drove ...

For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of manuscripts. But it now stands on ...