The 1,000 feet of rock sea walls at the center of the dispute in San Francisco were not supposed to be permanent either. Some were built with emergency permits and some without any permission from ...

Jake Gyllenhaal in Sea Wall/A Life. Joan Marcus. When you have a disease, or someone dear to you has a disease, and you go to the theater a lot, you begin to think, fucking playwrights.Suddenly ...

Part of historic Fort George in the Highlands is at risk of collapsing into the sea due to a sink hole. The artillery fortification was constructed on the Moray Firth, near Inverness, after the Battle ...

If humans build dikes, the annual cost of flooding could drop from as high as $100 trillion, in an unprotected world, to about $80 billion, Hinkel said. The research touches on current challenges.

That, along with the two googly-eye-like flotation devices on its front, gives it a sort of WALL-E vibe. Only instead of exploring a garbage-strewn landscape, BR-II roams the Pacific seafloor ...

The sea wall is also, as you may have guessed by now, a metaphor for the way that life can suddenly drop beneath our feet. A single shattering event occurs that has clearly reduced this once ...

The wrenching (and slyly funny) Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge double-bill of one-act plays, Sea Wall/A Life, has lost none of its intimate power in the move from Off Broadway to Broadway's ...

Fort Lauderdale eyes plan to raise sea walls 02:18. FORT LAUDERDALE-- The city of Fort Lauderdale is expected Thursday night to consider and approve a measure to raise the height of sea walls.