HAMLIN TOWNSHIP, MI – Access to this iconic Lake Michigan lighthouse was blocked by sand drifts this spring. It took five days to uncover the road. The 2-mile access road to Big Sable Point Lighthouse ...

ALGER COUNTY, MI -- Here’s a home renovation you won’t find on the HGTV: replastering a lighthouse keeper’s station built in 1909 using horse hair. Park staff are rehabilitating the plaster of the ...

California is a place of magnificent tectonic forces that lift mountains only for them to be constantly eroded by glaciers, wind and rain, ground down to one of the most basic commodities on Earth: ...

If you haven’t done it already, it's time to add dust storms to your long list of the worst environmental crises of the 21st century that we are not prepared for. Sand and dust storms occur when ...

While millions of Americans vacation on beaches every year to seek out sun, sand and the sea, many might not realize how dangerous digging holes in the sand can be. In February 2024, a 7-year-old girl ...

Stanford researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based tool – dubbed SandAI – that can reveal the history of quartz sand grains going back hundreds of millions of years. With SandAI, ...

Javier Leon received funding from The Australian Research Council and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. He is affiliated with Surfrider Foundation Australia. For many ...

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