North Carolina law has prohibited hardened structures on its beaches and inlets for more than two decades.
Read More
Orrin H. Pilkey and area locals offer their perspective on North Topsail Beach, North Carolina.
Read More
This film explores the issues of the North Carolina coast through interviews with coastal experts and visits to numerous sites along the NC coast.
Read More
World famous coastal geologist Orrin H. Pilkey takes us to the beach and explains why erosion has become a problem.
Read More
Jane Lubchenco says that precisely because the communities were so close to the epicenter, tsunami waves arrived “almost instantaneously.”
Read More
On the northeast coast of South Africa, one of the longest and most beautiful beaches in the world runs unbroken for 150 km between the inlets of the St. Lucia and Kosi Estuaries.
Read More
Sand bags are used to stabilize buildings that are threatened by the ocean.
Read More
Beach of the Month
South Nags Head, North Carolina; By Orrin H. Pilkey, Norma Longo & Joseph T. Kelly
South Nags Head, North Carolina, is a 5 mile long, 200 meter wide, strip of beach cottage development at the south end of town of Nags Head.
Read More
Anegada, the most northeasterly of the British Virgin Islands is a sandy island that sits on top of a Pleistocene reef that is now exposed above sea level.
Read MoreBeach of the Month
Photo of the Month
Plastic Pollution
Sand Wars – United Nations-GEA
Sand Mining Detrimental Effects
The World’s Beaches
Coastal Care Junior
NASA – Fly along with NASA’s fleet of Earth science missions and observe Earth from a global perspective in an immersive, 3-D environment.
