Native wildflowers are now growing on Santa Monica Beach, which help sand dunes form to protect the beach from erosion and flooding (Credit: Lucy Sherriff) The small stretches of sand that were ...

Coastal flooding and beach erosion from rising ... the city of Santa Monica and scientists from UC Santa Barbara to test the capacity of dune restoration to reduce coastal flooding.

A woman on the beach was killed by an SUV that drove onto the sand near the Santa Monica Pier late Thursday night. According to the Santa Monica Police Department, the incident happened around 11: ...

The Santa Monica Police Department is investigating the death of a woman who was found Monday morning, in a sleeping bag on the beach sand with trauma to her face. City beach maintenance personnel ...

stretch of Santa Monica Beach with sand fencing, and sowing native dune plant seeds (red sand verbena, beach bur, beach salt bush and beach evening primrose). Then they waited. And waited. And waited, ...