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Billions of Years Ago, Mars Featured Beaches Fit for a Vacation, Astronomers Say

Researchers identified underground sedimentary layers on Mars similar to coastal formations on Earth.

Space & Spaceflight Margherita Bassi Mar 2

An artistic impression of how electricity could be used to strengthen coastlines.

Zapping Beaches With Electricity Can Produce ‘Natural Cement’ Where We Need It Most

Coastlines are washing away, but a surprising technique could make grains of sand stick together and prevent erosion.

Conservation Adam Kovac Aug 22

Bioluminescent Waves Draw Crowds to California Beaches

Stunning bioluminescent waves are crashing onto southern California shores. It’s quite the spectacle, but the light show is drawing crowds amid social distancing concerns. Shores between Baja California and Los Angeles are experiencing a significant algal bloom known as the “red tide,” according to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. These blooms are caused by large…

Biology George Dvorsky May 6

Grim Reaper Educates Florida Beachgoers On the Benefits of Social Distancing

A few Florida beaches reopened this week despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, prompting one Florida lawyer, scythe in hand, to help beachgoers gain a better understanding of why that’s such a dumb idea. In a clip that went viral on Twitter Friday, what at first seems like a standard local news interview turns into something…

Health Alyse Stanley May 1

Unchecked Climate Change May Erase Half of the World’s Sandy Beaches by 2050

I freaking love the beach. It is my place of solace come summertime and my preferred destination come vacation time. So it breaks my heart to share this news: Half of our world’s beaches could be gone by the end of the century. A new study published on Monday in Nature Climate Change shows the…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes Mar 2

Swimming Banned at All Mississippi Beaches After Huge Toxic Algae Bloom

An unusually large bloom of toxic blue-green algae has prompted the closure of all beaches along the Mississippi coastline. Officials are attributing the bloom to excessive rainfall and overuse of fertilizers. On Sunday, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, through its Beach Monitoring Program, announced the closure of two more Mississippi beaches, namely Pascagoula Beach…

Earth Science George Dvorsky Jul 8

This Automated Sand Printer Is Ready to Flood Your Instagram Feed With Beach Wedding Proposals

Wedding proposals are just one of the many minefields you have to navigate on social media platforms, and Ivan Miranda isn’t making things any easier. He’s designed and built an autonomous printer that can draw messages in sand, so now’s probably a good time to brace yourself for an endless barrage of “will you marry…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 3

What the Hell Is This Sponge-Like Crap Washing Up on France’s Shores?

Late last week, strange sponge-like clumps began washing ashore in northern France. By the weekend, thousands of the foamy yellow balls were seen along nearly 20 miles of the coastline. Local authorities aren’t sure where the unsightly stuff is coming from, and an investigation is currently underway. As reported in The Local, this mysterious substance…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jul 18

Lost Irish Beach Mysteriously Reappears After 33 Years

Weather’s a bitch. Back in 1984, a vicious storm stripped the sand off of a picturesque beach in northwest Ireland. And then, around Easter, a freak tide brought it all back. Locals seem thrilled. The town at the center of this Easter miracle is Dooagh on Achill Island in the County Mayo. When the Great…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes May 8

Rising Sea Levels Could Decimate Southern California Beaches by 2100

Using a new computer model, scientists predict that upwards of 67 percent of Southern California beaches could be severely damaged by rising sea levels in the next 80 years. A new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research warns that 31 to 67 percent of Southern California beaches are at risk of complete erosion…

Climate Change George Dvorsky Mar 28

Hong Kong’s Beaches Are Suddenly Covered in Trash and No One Knows Why

Visitors to Hong Kong’s beaches have taken to various social media channels to voice their outrage about the current state of the region’s beaches. Judging by the accompanying photos, they look more like trash oases than relaxing paradises. “I have never in my 20 years here seen consistently this much rubbish on our [South Lantau]…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Jul 5

Old WWII Bomb Blown Up After Washing Ashore on a Florida Beach

This makes stepping on a jellyfish seem like no big deal: A beachgoer found a mysterious cylindrical hunk of sea-worn metal washed up on the shore at St. Pete Beach, Florida. It turned out to be a barnacle-covered M122 photoflash bomb from World War II, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Jul 19

Trolley Tracks Once Ran Through the Beaches of Los Angeles

Trolleys once rivaled the crashing surf in the soundscape of Southland beaches. Along much of the Southern California coast from Santa Monica to Redondo and from Long Beach to Newport, a red dot—a distant Pacific Electric car—would appear down the shore. As it neared, the click-clack of the wheels moving over the wooden ties, the…

Tech News Nathan Masters Oct 24

Aerial Shots of Beach Show Man Wringing Order From Nature

These photos by Bernhard Lang look less like people enjoying a beach trip and more like they belong on Things Organized Neatly. Perhaps by a very anal giant. The shots are from Lang‘s Aerial Views Adria, which he describes thusly: The message might be to show the impact of human beings on the natural environment.…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Sep 12

These Aerial Beach Photos Were Shot While Dangling from a Helicopter

Antoine Rose shoots photographs from the air. He shoots them hanging off the edge of a helicopter thousands of feet above ground—in wind, in subzero temperatures, in the dark. But sometimes the conditions are just right for a day at the beach, and Rose captures these surreal, candy-colored images of the sand and surf below.…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Aug 20

The Plan to Build a Floating Beach That Travels Around NYC’s Shores

As summer rolls in with its heat and its sun, we’re all thinking of fleeing toward the beaches. For New Yorkers, that could soon be a beach on a reclaimed barge, floating along the Hudson River. Could it actually work? We talked to City Beach‘s structural engineer to find out. The idea for City Beach…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jun 30

A Town’s Famous Bioluminescent Bay Is Going Dark and No One Knows Why

For those who’ve seen it—and photographs don’t do it justice—the bioluminescent Mosquito Bay is one of the world’s most spectacular natural sights. Tiny plankton known as dinoflagellates light up the water like a glow stick at night. But since January, the glow has faded, throwing the entire Puerto Rican town into a panic. Vieques is…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jun 6

Australian Sharks Will Now Be Tweeting Their Locations

There’s a great, bloody shark war going on in Western Australia right now. After six deaths in two years—making Western Australia the deadliest place on earth for shark attacks—the state has ratcheted up its side of the war by deciding to kill sharks. Lots of ’em. Any shark within one kilometer of the beach will…

Biology Sarah Zhang Dec 28

This Mug Screws Into Soft Ground to Stay Upright

If you’ve ever struggled to keep your drinks in their receptacle at the beach, this concept will have your pretty excited: Screw Cup is a mug that can be driven into the ground to help it stay upright. Designed by Barcelona-based Minji Jung, the cup screws into sandy beaches—or, presumably, other soft ground—to ensure it…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 16

25 Sizzling Photos Of Summer

It’s summer, which means we can all stop complaining how cold it is and start complaining how hot it is. It also means beaches, swimsuits, and s’mores. Winner: Bird Catcher My grilfriend and I were strolling down a quiet beach on a perfect sunny day. That’s when we saw a bunch of birds on the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 2

beaches

Billions of Years Ago, Mars Featured Beaches Fit for a Vacation, Astronomers Say

Zapping Beaches With Electricity Can Produce ‘Natural Cement’ Where We Need It Most

Bioluminescent Waves Draw Crowds to California Beaches

Grim Reaper Educates Florida Beachgoers On the Benefits of Social Distancing

Unchecked Climate Change May Erase Half of the World’s Sandy Beaches by 2050

Swimming Banned at All Mississippi Beaches After Huge Toxic Algae Bloom

This Automated Sand Printer Is Ready to Flood Your Instagram Feed With Beach Wedding Proposals

What the Hell Is This Sponge-Like Crap Washing Up on France’s Shores?

Lost Irish Beach Mysteriously Reappears After 33 Years

Rising Sea Levels Could Decimate Southern California Beaches by 2100

Hong Kong’s Beaches Are Suddenly Covered in Trash and No One Knows Why

Old WWII Bomb Blown Up After Washing Ashore on a Florida Beach

Trolley Tracks Once Ran Through the Beaches of Los Angeles

Aerial Shots of Beach Show Man Wringing Order From Nature

These Aerial Beach Photos Were Shot While Dangling from a Helicopter

The Plan to Build a Floating Beach That Travels Around NYC’s Shores

A Town’s Famous Bioluminescent Bay Is Going Dark and No One Knows Why

Australian Sharks Will Now Be Tweeting Their Locations

This Mug Screws Into Soft Ground to Stay Upright

25 Sizzling Photos Of Summer

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