Beach sand: so common, so complex, so perfect for sand castles and now a precious and vanishing resource.
Read MoreHurricane Katrina destroyed communities in Louisiana. Ike leveled the Port Bolivar peninsula and parts of Galveston.
Read MoreSingapore is struggling to find the sand it needs for its gigantic land reclamation and construction projects.
Read MoreAn engineering professor has figured out why oil remains trapped along miles of gravel beaches more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in Prince William Sound.
Read MoreThe negative impact of groins on downdrift shorelines is well understood.
Read MoreKurnell Peninsula is in danger of becoming an island.
Read MoreCoastal erosion has wiped out dozens of homes and left nearly 200 inhabitants homeless in Buchanan. Most of the erosion is caused by unregulated sand mining.
Read MoreYou may have to kiss that summer trip to the beach goodbye later this century, thanks to rising sea levels and more intense tropical storms, scientists predict.
Read MoreGetting it on your skin is not going to be very dangerous. Just watch what you swallow.
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