landscaping or the coastal highway — also affects erosion by altering water drainage and adding weight to the cliff. Compounding all this is sea level rise, as waves hammer away at the crumbling ...

They found that the rate of coastal erosion on these two sites has closely matched the rate of sea level rise. The researchers say this is clear evidence of a causal relationship between cliff ...

Every measure of climate change is going in the wrong direction, and some of them faster than ever before, a vast new paper ...

Researchers show that seagrass can reduce cliff erosion by up to 70% thanks to its root mats binding the sand. The sea devours large tracts of land when storms wash sand out to sea from the coast.

Headlands, bays and cliffs witness the power of the sea, creating distinctive features on our coastlines and maps. This graphic shows the process of erosion that forms a cliff and wave-cut platform.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council, which is responsible for managing Hemsby's coastline, said continued erosion remained "inevitable", meaning more homes could be lost to the sea. A plan for a sea ...

Coastguards also revealed that the cliff erosion had created a new 10 ft drop from the beach into the sea, meaning the local lifeboat can no longer be launched. Hemsby lifeboat's coxswain Dan Hurd ...

A mansion perched on a bluff in Cape Cod is at risk of falling into the sea due to erosion. Erosion is threatening luxury homes on coastlines across New England, including on nearby Nantucket.