I listened to this podcast, 'Geography of Risk' Calculates Who Pays When A Storm Comes To Shore, which was an interview with Gilbert M. Gaul, about his new book, The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms ...

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most unique and diverse ecosystems in the world. Located off the coast of Queenslan ...

Rip currents are the number one weather-related killer in the coastal Carolinas. Here’s how to stay safe in ocean waters this ...

Pritchards Island was donated to University of South Carolina in 1983. Since then, it’s eroded significantly. It’s happened faster than researchers expected.

Most of those islands run along Alaska’s Arctic shoreline. In addition to the discovery of new islands, the study has helped scientists learn more about what classifies as a barrier island.

Anxious evacuees who live near Hurricane Milton’s landfall returned home Friday to find out if they faced more destruction or miracles on the barrier islands of Sarasota County.

The barrier islands off the coast of Georgia are littered with millions of oysters left behind by Indigenous peoples. New research shows they’re still protecting the land.

Only 55 miles of ocean separate Great Barrier Island from cosmopolitan Auckland, but given how little the two places have in common, the distance seems much greater. With fewer than 1,000 ...

Researchers have developed a methodology for quantifying landscape changes on barrier islands and, in doing so, have found the storms that can devastate human infrastructure also create ...