Santa Cruz is and always has been a beach town, and we all probably have our own favorite beaches. But why do we have sandy beaches in some places and not in others? Most locals know where the beaches ...

Coastal dunes are a ridge, or a series of ridges, that form at the rear of a beach and differ from most other constructional coastal landforms in that they are formed by the movement of air (aeolian ...

A 41-year-old Virginia man on vacation in Emerald Isle drowned, officials said. Beach-goers in Emerald Isle, North Carolina, formed a human chain to rescue swimmers from rough surf on Wednesday, video ...

For decades, Northwestern students had near-exclusive access to a beach on north campus. The Lincoln Street Beach, formed largely due to lake bed shifting that occurred after Northwestern began ...