Storms uncover carriage tracks from 1800s on Orleans beach; Massachusetts
The barrage of storms in March has relentlessly pounded down on Orleans’ beaches, bringing 35-foot-tall waves and high winds. But officials recently discovered something else — horse and carriage tracks reportedly from the late 1800s or early 1900s.
The Sculpting of Ebro Delta
Just over 200 kilometers southwest of Barcelona, Spain’s largest river meets the Mediterranean Sea and creates the Ebro Delta. At 350 square kilometers, the delta is the fourth largest on the Mediterranean. It is an important wetland ecosystem and a productive agricultural area. Yet, humans, who indirectly drove the growth of the delta over the past 2100 years, are today starving the delta.
Sands of time: world’s oldest message in a bottle found on Australian beach
The oldest known message in a bottle was found on an Australian beach, north of Perth, the capital of Western Australia state, 132 years after being thrown from a German ship in the Indian Ocean as part of an experiment to track currents.
6 Gorgeous Sea Glass Beaches In The U.S.
The only thing more special than taking a long walk on the beach might just be discovering a treasure while on that stroll—like a sea shell or a piece of sea glass.
Shelly Island: There and Back Again
Despite the public attention paid to the rise and fall of Shelly Island, such swift changes are common along barrier island systems. The shoreline and cape tips along North Carolina are constantly in motion, as waves and currents redistribute land-building materials.
Best beaches in the UK and Europe: readers’ travel tips
A selection from Ireland to southern Italy.
Trucking Mud to the Beaches Means More Sand but Dirtier Waters, CA
When Santa Barbara County dumps tons of mud from the catastrophic debris flow of January 9 on the shores of Goleta and Carpinteria, this wasn’t like anything that’s happened before. So residents are asking, “Will there be long-term effects? Might there be other locations that can share the impacts..?”
Is desalination the answer for Africa’s water shortages?
As South Africa’s Western Cape province is in a race against time to produce solutions that will keep the taps from running dry desalination has been proposed as one of many strategies to deal with the water shortages, with Namibia and Botswana already in a joint venture to pump desalinated water from the Atlantic Ocean.
Tendrils of Sediment in the Caspian Sea
Along the Caspian Sea’s southeastern side, off the coast of Turkmenistan, one feature shows up year-round in almost every cloud-free satellite image. The Caspian is marked by colorful swirls of perpetually turbid seawater.