Waimea Bay continues to evolve. El Niño conditions in 1969 and 1983, for example, triggered massive winter swells that ...

Big waves – some topping 18 feet in Los Angeles County – wreaked havoc on Friday, Jan. 6, as high tides and a winter swell continued to work over the Southern California coastline leading to beach ...

For the first time, surfing is on the Olympic stage. The surfing event will last for three days and has to run within the dates from July 25 to August 1. The reason for this window? Not all waves are ...

Jan. 11—After swollen surf chewed the face from a 20-foot-tall sand berm on Ocean Shores' southern shoreline for the second time in two weeks, officials opted for a firmer tactic to hold off the ...

In the effort to save valuable infrastructure from encroaching ocean waves, the city of Ocean Shores is using the natural material it’s perhaps best known for. Millions of pounds of sand. On Thursday ...

Tidal sand waves are a key geomorphological feature of shallow, sandy continental shelves, generated by the interplay of tidal currents, non-tidal hydrodynamic processes, and sediment dynamics. These ...

California’s first huge swells of the winter are wreaking havoc on the state’s coastline as an incoming atmospheric river storm forces evacuations amid flooding of beach and coastal roads. The extreme ...

Sand waves flow behind Jack Stauss, repeatedly rolling and breaking near a debris-heavy section of the river as he discusses sediment-related phenomena in Lake Powell. “That’s the delta making itself ...