While sea walls are effective, they are not the only solution. Some cities are exploring alternative methods, such as restoring natural wetlands, which can act as a buffer against rising seas.

The fate of California’s coast may hinge upon the outcome of a contentious ongoing lawsuit in which a small group of homeowners is battling to build a sea wall that the state has refused to approve.

In the shade of a roughly 15-foot-high sea wall, a handful of snails and mussels had already moved into the 500-square-foot surface area habitat, just one day after it was installed.

There are calls for a "full and frank investigation" after a councillor claims Wirral's £20m sea wall failed to stop homes and businesses flooding. Waves spilled over the West Kirby sea wall ...

Work on the second phase of a steel wall along the seafront of a Devon resort has begun. Steel sheets are being put in place in Exmouth to protect the town's crumbling sea wall in a £3.3m scheme.

To access the Renland Ice Cap, the team had to make a daunting ascent up a 1,500-foot monolith known as the Pool Wall. Employing the grading system climbers use to describe a route’s difficulty ...

Map-maker Jeff Clark thinks the Sea to Sky region has it all. “As a cartographer, this thing checks all the boxes,” said Clark, 61. “It’s got mountains, it’s got fiords, it’s got ocean ...

SWAMPSCOTT — A partial sea wall collapse prompted the full evacuation of a popular restaurant overlooking King’s Beach Thursday afternoon, and the potential for a further crisis brought in by ...

A buried sea wall project in Ormond-by-the-Sea was supposed to start Tuesday, but it was delayed to next week. A 1.3-mile-long sea wall will be built between Sunrise Avenue and Marlin Drive.

SALEM - A sea wall, which stood for more than 100 years, failed during the heavy rains on Saturday, January 13, and some Salem residents have lost nearly everything.

Indonesia has grand plans for Jakarta—a new capital on Borneo, a giant bird-shaped sea wall to protect Jakarta itself—but they don’t solve the underlying problem.