Coastal Restoration

The section of highway collapsed Thursday afternoon about 15 miles south of Big Sur

As coastal cities in California fight to defend their homes and roads from sea level rise, the small city of Marina is taking a different path, banning seawalls and adopting a policy known as managed retreat.

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Hurricane Maria’s waves clawed away at the sand, reducing the width of the broad beach by approximately 90 percent. But it wasn’t just that the familiar landscape disappeared — it left La Boca defenseless. 

The steep cliffs that buttress Malibu and other coastal towns in Southern California could recede more than 130 feet by the year 2100, according to a new sea level rise study by the U.S. Geological Survey.

It’s one of the most popular beaches on the South Coast, attracting an estimated 1.5 million visitors a year. But, Santa Barbara County has spent an

Hurricane Matthew’s storm surge and waves overwashed about 15 percent of the sand dunes on Florida's Atlantic coast, 30 percent along Georgia’s coastline, and 42 percent of dunes on South Carolina’s sandy beaches as the powerful storm brushed past the Southeastern states October 6-9, according to USGS experts' preliminary review of USGS low-altitude before-and-after images along of the coast and NOAA photographs collected after the storm.

At Herring Cove Beach, facing an erosion problem as many other coastal areas are, a damaged parking lot is being replaced with one farther back.

We pored through the massive set of images of Earth from space to show you some of our favorites.

Storms caused by atmospheric rivers cause about $1 billion damage each year, a new study shows, with more damage in California than any state studied.

In the wake of an especially destructive hurricane season, conservationists and urban planners are grappling with how to protect coastlines—and are increasingly looking to nature for inspiration.

Herb Montgomery and his wife, Janet, have lived in Del Mar’s low-lying Beach Colony just east of Camino Del Mar for 20 years. He knows the ocean is creeping closer to his property and he says the city has an obligation to protect his home, valued at $3.2 million, from the rising waters.

Caltrans’ ambitious one-year, $40-million repair job for Highway 1 at Mud Creek attempts to repair the largest landslide to hit the California coast

After Saturday's catastrophic land failure buried part of Highway 1 along the Big Sur coastline, geologists and engineers are trying to find a fix. Don't expect an opening any time soon.

The people of Tangier fear their life, land and heritage could wash away

New 3-D images reveal just how bad erosion is along the Northern California coast.

This video slideshow highlights images taken by citizen scientists for the Urban Tides Community Science Initiative managed by USC Sea Grant. Urban Tides is a community…