Coastal hardening makes beaches more vulnerable to severe erosion. In places like Santa Cruz, California, waves have erased beaches in front of retaining walls, and similar patterns of beach loss have ...

Juliet is your community news reporter covering the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. At Hendry’s Beach near Santa Barbara, 16-year-old Pyp Pratt says he’s been picking up trash at weekly ...

The blazes are still raging. And this week the so-called Santa Ana or "Devil" winds are back. This is what it could mean. What are the Santa Ana winds? Santa Ana winds are hot, dry winds that blow ...

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The beaches will be closed “until further notice” as the EPA works to identify the cause of bizarre debris that has washed ashore. The marble-sized balls of debris washed up on Tuesday ...

Nine Sydney beaches have been closed after the discovery of numerous marble-sized balls. The debris, said to be a combination of white and grey in colour, appeared along the shoreline in the city ...

Nine beaches in Sydney, including well-known Manly beach, were closed to bathers on Tuesday after small white and grey balls of debris washed up on the shores at the height of the summer holiday ...

Months after mysterious black balls forced the closure of some of Sydney's most famous beaches, small marble-like debris has begun washing up on the city's shores again. The balls - this time grey ...

SYDNEY, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Nine beaches in Sydney, including well-known Manly beach, were closed to bathers on Tuesday after small white and grey balls of debris washed up on the shores at the ...

AND OF COURSE, ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS. NOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THEY’LL BE TALKING ABOUT IS THE RETURN OF THE SANTA ANA WINDS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. KELLY CURRAN JOINS US NOW FROM THE ...