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Protecting our beaches is too important. All sides need to work harder to find common ground.

Before-and-after images by Ping Wang, a coastal erosion researcher at USF, show what he called the most dramatic erosion he’d seen to Pinellas beaches by a single storm.

The Army Corps of Engineers is ready to renourish eroded Pinellas County beaches, but they can't without signed easements from beachfront homeowners.

1860: The Key of the Gulf newspaper noted that though Key West had long been dependent on wrecking for sustenance, things were changing: Sponging over the previous year had brought

INDIAN SHORES — Beach renourishment is a sort of give-and-take between humans and nature. Humans pump sand onto the beach; waves wash it away, little by little, until a storm takes a lot at once. The idea is that, when a storm does hit, the berm of sand will be enough to protect the homes and public infrastructure inland. For the first time in nearly three years, officials from the U.S. Army ...