Sand is one of the most extracted natural resources on Earth, yet its environmental impact remains dangerously overlooked.

Additional expertise comes from Center for Ocean Solutions lead scientist ... Lapôtre: A landscape's topography, wind, and water all dictate where sand accumulates. Sand mining disturbs that ...

Although the beaches remain open, health advisories prohibit or urge residents to avoid swimming, surfing or playing in the ocean water because of debris runoff from fire zones.

However, the larger charred debris — like big wood pieces that have been found as far south as Redondo Beach — is being ...

advising people to avoid water and sand contact, was put in place indefinitely but the City of Santa Monica stressed that there is a "very wide area of sand that is not impacted by the ocean water ...

We literally have tons of it on beaches, deserts, and under the ocean, but we're using it up ... After air and water, sand is our most used natural resource. We use it even more than oil.

New Jersey legislators are considering a law that would make clear that no one would need a beach badge to enter the ocean to ...