Escherichia coli is best known as a gastrointestinal pathogen in warm-blooded animals. For the last hundred years, its presence on beaches has been assumed to indicate fecal pollution, leading to beach closures. New research ...
Ecology
Feb 9, 2023
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Beach sand contains all kinds of microorganisms, including those that can harm human health. Yet current guidelines are focused exclusively on monitoring the levels of microbes in the water.
Environment
Aug 28, 2015
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As Americans flock to beaches this summer, their toes are sinking into some of the most hotly contested real estate in the United States.
Economics & Business
Jul 19, 2021
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Sand boils caused by groundwater discharges affect beach stability, yet knowledge of these damaging underground erosions is largely misunderstood, and therefore hard to curb.
Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2023
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From eye level, the wisps of green emerging from sand dunes up and down Pinellas County's barrier islands look sparse, stubby, almost tentative as they peek at the sun. Below the surface, though, they are spreading out, trapping ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2024
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Recent research shows shifting sand dunes threaten to envelop several important Mid West roads within the next few years.
Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2014
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On a beach in North Carolina, researchers have been poking and prodding the sand to study how moisture levels affect sounds as they move across the environment.
Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2020
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