News tagged with beach
Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking
Nov 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles.
Hawaii planning to replenish sand at Waikiki Beach
Nov 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hawaii officials are appealing to the state's tourism authority for funds to restore part of world-famous Waikiki Beach.
A View From the Other Side: Dubai Plans to Cool Sizzling Sandy Beach
Dec 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dubai's out this world's Palazzo Versace located in the Culture Village has hired Hyder Consulting to use their innovative engineering talents to cool off the hotel/condominium resort's sizzling ...
Dangerous staph germs found at West Coast beaches
Sep 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Dangerous staph bacteria have been found in sand and water for the first time at five public beaches along the coast of Washington, and scientists think the state is not the only one with this problem.
Saving sand: South Carolina beaches become a model for preservation
Oct 23, 2009 |
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While most people head to Myrtle Beach for vacation, a group of scientists have been hitting the famous South Carolina beach for years to figure out how to keep the sand from washing away.
What science says about beach sand and stomach aches
Aug 11, 2009 |
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By washing your hands after digging in beach sand, you could greatly reduce your risk of ingesting bacteria that could make you sick. In new research, scientists have determined that, although beach sand is a potential source ...
New study sheds light on earthquake hazard along San Andreas Fault
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2009 |
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New research by a team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) offers new insight into the San Andreas Fault as it extends beneath Southern ...
Less ice in the Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 years ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008 |
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Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice ...
King tides -- a glimpse of future sea level rise
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomorrow, beach-goers will get a glimpse of what our coastlines may look like in 50 years, when New South Wales and South East Queensland experience the highest daytime ‘king tides’ forecast ...
Rip currents pose greater risk to swimmers than to shoreline
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Rip currents -- powerful, channeled currents of water flowing away from the shore -- represent a danger to human life and property. Rip currents are responsible for more than one hundred deaths on our nation's ...
Study reveals demographic trend of the Jewish population in Broward County
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2009 |
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South Florida has the second most populous Jewish community in America, after New York. Jewish people traditionally settled in South Florida for economic opportunities, for the climate, to join friends and family and to retire. ...
25 year old message in a bottle reunited with its owner
Aug 21, 2008 |
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As an eleven year old boy in 1985, Donald Wylie tossed a bottle into the Orkney sea, with a message asking its finder to track him down. Almost a quarter of a century later, Donald will be reunited with the bottle which ...
Toward long-range beach forecasts on bacterial contamination
Jun 30, 2008 |
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Long-range forecasts of beach bacterial contamination are inching closer to reality because of a new water quality prediction method scheduled for publication in the July 15 issue of the ACS' Environmental Sc ...
