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A California Beach Town Is Desperate to Save Its Vanishing Sand We're exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. In this Southern California town, residents are grappling [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY As Americans flock to the beach this summer, they're often greeted with disconcerting news: Their destination might be smelly with dead fish or rotting seaweed [...]

The H5N1 virus poses ''a great unknown threat'' to birds and humans alike. Understanding and thwarting it begins with excrement collection. It was a glorious day for field work on [...]

Byline: Lori Rozsa WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. - In the days since Hurricane Nicole lashed this stretch of Florida coast with punishing winds and a powerful storm surge, contractor A.J. Rockwell has [...]

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. -- This barrier island on the southwestern coast of Florida sustained extensive damage last Wednesday, when Hurricane Ian made landfall just 22 miles to the north. [...]

Byline: John Bacon, USA TODAY A massive oil spill off the coast of Southern California fouled beaches and forced cancellation of a popular air show as authorities raced to minimize [...]

Byline: Ruby Mellen Dead sea animals continue to wash onto Sri Lanka's beaches weeks after a massive cargo ship carrying hazardous chemicals caught fire and then sank off the coast [...]

The environmental damage is being called one of Israel's worst ecological disasters in decades. ''I feel like I want to cry,'' said an official. ''It's everywhere.'' JERUSALEM -- A large [...]

Byline: HEATHER GREENWOOD DAVIS, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead The foul-smelling weed that is frustrating beach lovers and the hotels that support them is called sargassum. It is [...]

Lead 'Montreal is an island that has forgotten it is an island.' This was the declaration, striking yet obviously true, made by Denis Coderre in 2015. The thenmayor of Montreal, [...]

Byline: Cleve R. Wootson Jr.It's unclear whether the initial incursion happened stealthily at night or brazenly during the day - though authorities are almost certain the invasion occurred by sea.And [...]

Between April and September, just minutes after waves splash over beaches along the eastern Atlantic coast of England, Wales, France or the Channel Islands, tiny, green worms emerge from their [...]

ATHENS -- Fast-moving wildfires near Athens have killed at least 76 people, officials said on Tuesday, and have forced thousands of tourists and residents to flee in cars and buses, [...]

Come for the beaches, say tourism ads for the Dominican Republic. But it has some beaches you might want to skip right now. The Caribbean nation is known for sapphire [...]

LEGIAN, Indonesia -- The people of Bali have long been of two minds about endangered sea turtles. Some want to save them. Some want to eat them. But increasingly, the [...]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A winter storm in Lebanon has resurfaced a longstanding national problem, in the form of a swirling sea of garbage. Piles of trash began washing up Monday [...]

Byline: Loveday Morris and Hazem Balousha GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The beach has long provided much needed relief for the 2 million residents of the Gaza Strip, cut off [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang Nobody knew what they were at first. They've been described as 'strange spongelike clumps,' 'yellow mousse' and, perhaps most disturbingly, 'possibly the biggest balls of earwax [...]

When I returned to surfing after a 15-year hiatus, in the mid-1990s, I was living and working in New York City. My go-to spot was Long Beach, about an hour's [...]

Byline: DANIEL ROTSZTAIN; Special to The Globe and Mail Cradling the city's harbour like an outstretched hand, the Toronto Islands are more than a place to escape the city - [...]

HONG KONG -- Trash on beaches is an unwelcome reality for people in Hong Kong, as it is in many places in the world. In recent days, however, the city's [...]

Byline: Chelsea Harvey A new study of the Hawaiian Islands has made a disturbing, if not entirely surprising, discovery: Hawaii's paradisal beaches have a major plastic problem. The results of [...]

Byline: Christina Beck Beach water quality is inching upward in the Los Angeles County area for a surprising reason: California's drought. Southern California beaches performed well on water quality rankings, [...]

The whole point of the Florida beach vacation is to relax. But during peak season, the most popular beach towns attract tens of thousands of sun seekers, all looking to [...]

Byline: Eva Botkin-Kowacki If you go to the beach in California or Oregon this week, you may be surprised to find a colorful display. Beginning in July, millions of small, [...]

Byline: Stephen Kurczy Tourists enjoying the pristine beaches of Copacobana and Ipanema may not realize it, but this city is trying to clean up a butts problem. Rio de Janeiro [...]

Aiming for rays on a beach at the Baltic Sea resort of Sellin, Germany. CAPTION(S): PHOTO (PHOTOGRAPH BY STEFAN SAUER/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO [...]

Byline: ANDREW MEACHAM; PETER JAMISON; Times Staff Writers Welcome to Florida and its beaches, with white sand and warm breezes . . . and clumps of seaweed rotting in the [...]

Byline: MARK HUME ENVIRONMENT VANCOUVER -- For Lucas Harris, every piece of garbage that a small group of surfers collects on B.C.'s supposedly pristine beaches helps to paint a bigger [...]

Byline: Rick Neale, USA TODAY After romping Tuesday morning across Canova Beach Park in Brevard County, Fla., Charles the long-haired Chihuahua emerged dry, while William the American Eskimo dog had [...]

Byline: BARBARA BEHRENDT; Times Staff Writer BROOKSVILLE -- State environmental regulators have put Hernando County on notice that an acre of protected sea grass has been damaged by the Hernando [...]

A federal judge will allow a Spanish interpreter at Monday's sentencing of former Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White on corruption charges, but it won't be on the taxpayers' dime. Earlier [...]

The Association of Surfing Professionals surprised many people this spring when it chose Ocean Beach in San Francisco for its premier surfing contest, which began this week. The city is [...]

New York City has closed four of its beaches, nearly a week after a fire shut down a wastewater treatment plant in Harlem, causing hundreds of millions of gallons of [...]