Beach-cleaning machines are mechanical systems designed to remove waste such as plastic, debris and seaweed from sandy areas.

Bringing home gold for Hudson was Royce Beal with a first-place finish at 113 pounds; Nick Sorrow with a win at 132 pounds; ...

A bald eagle was shot on Thanksgiving and later taken to a Navarre wildlife sanctuary. The eagle died, but the sanctuary is ...

It wasn’t easy to get to Hawaii 100 years ago. The Pacific Ocean made for a daunting doormat, keeping most casual boat visitors well away. And with jet age air travel still largely in its infancy, the ...

State Auditor Rob Sand, who’s running for governor in 2026, greets people at a campaign town hall in Boone in October. As state auditor, Rob Sand traveled across Iowa this year to hold 100 town hall ...

A 12-year-old girl was rescued after a hole she was digging in a sandbar in Texas during a family outing collapsed on top of her, authorities said. The girl was visiting Panther Creek in the Woodlands ...

If you’ve ever been to Bermuda, you’ve probably seen their famous pink-sand beaches, made up of the shells of tiny sea creatures. Or if you’ve traveled to Hawaii, you may have visited black-sand ...

Last summer, Stephanie McNamara got her first glimpse of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. The park is a monument to sand, where dunes stretch across 30 square miles ...

The family beach day. Nothing but blue sky, crystal waters, and beaming smiles. Unless you’re the packhorse responsible for maneuvering a mountain of gear from the parking lot to the perfect spot on ...