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The breathtaking island of Mont Saint-Michel is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular tourist destinations in France. With its towering

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. —A “coastal squeeze” has been plaguing some stretches of Florida and other parts of the U.S., as communities for decades expanded with development and vital tidal flats sustained irreversible damage, according to a newly released study. The big-picture analysis by the Florida Atlantic University — which examined data from annual maps from 1985 to 2015 — revealed how urban ...

The endangered Far Eastern curlew, the world's largest migratory shorebird, is passing through the Korean peninsula once again on its annual migratory journey south. In the last three decades, the curlew's population has dropped by 80 percent, largely due to development around the ecological wonder that is the West Sea, pertaining to the largest body of tidal flats on the planet. In the last 50 years, 66 percent of the tidal flats in the West Sea have been reclaimed for human use. This is in the face of millions of shorebirds who rely on them for survival.

More than 200 Delta residents took part in the City of Delta’s 15th annual photo contest

The findings of an annual analysis of three highly urbanized coastal counties in the southern United States suggest that tidal flats in these three counties urgently require a sustainable management strategy in response to the fast development of metropolitan areas.