How Sturdy Is Your Sand Castle? Itâs All About the Water
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Researchers used X-ray microtomography to look at how the water is distributed in the mix with sand used to make a sand castle.
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By Kieran Falconer  One of my earliest memories is of feeling the sand - just sitting and rubbing sand between my fingers and toes. Later, as older boys, we would slope off from home - and school, of course - and head straight for the beach.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  May 26--Mother Nature is a relentless force, and nowhere is that better displayed than along North Carolina's coast. Wind and surf tirelessly reshape the islands, or try to, with little mere mortals can do to stop them.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Mar. 5--The pressures of growth have caught up with the 4,000 customers of the Sunset Beach, N.C., water system, who in a few months will be paying dramatically higher monthly bills.
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By Lyndsey Lewis, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb.
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By GERARD SHIELDS  Summer is a great time for a water fight, unless of course you are in Congress, where things can get muddy pretty quickly.  U.S. Rep.
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By Jessie Mangaliman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 15--Waves up to 20 feet high will batter the coast this weekend, creating dangerous conditions for anyone tempted to watch from rocks or even piers, the National Weather Service said today.
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By Jim Carney, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jan. 31--Nick Garbinsky wants to study rocks and earthquakes when he grows up but maybe he should consider water currents instead.
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By Troy Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 7--Vincent J. Fumo wasn't the only out-of-state homeowner who didn't want a sand dune blocking the ocean view from his house in Margate, N.J.
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By John Dickey, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 12--Levees took a beating during high water this winter, driving the number of critical erosion sites from 29 to 140, a state official said.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 20--A coastal community can never have too many qualified lifesavers on the beach.
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  May 26--It's a clash as constant as the waves hitting Destin's sugar-white sands.   Beachgoers want to walk along the shore without having to fi gure out the boundaries between private and public stretches of beach.
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ALL of Scotland's bathing beaches have passed water quality tests for the first time since monitoring began 20 years ago.  The Scottish Environment Protection Agency said the good summer weather and investment in sewage treatment had helped.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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By Kirk Moore, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Feb. 7--Some critics say it's like spitting in the ocean.
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When a hurricane makes landfall in the continental United States, Dave Prevatt and his colleagues in the Florida Coastal Monitoring Program are out evaluating which construction methods best protect homes from the tremendous wind forces the storms deliver.
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By Bob Cuddy, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Jun. 18--The rolling hills that help entice tourists to the North Coast may or may not end up with "starter castles" or other structures on their ridgelines.