All posts tagged: Coast

Barbara Hepworth sculpture inspired by Cornish coast could fetch £8m at auction

Barbara Hepworth sculpture inspired by Cornish coast could fetch £8m at auction

Published by Daniella Wilson

An artwork by Dame Barbara Hepworth is expected to realise up to £8 million at auction this month. Titled ‘Sculpture with Colour (Eos)’, it will lead Christie’s modern British and Irish art evening sale. Estimates from the auction house suggest it could fetch between £5 million and £8 million. Carved in 1946 from a single piece of pale Hopton Wood stone, Christie’s described the piece as rising from its base in an organic ovoid form, delicately balanced on its narrowest point. It noted the work exemplifies Dame Barbara’s commitment to “truth to materials” and direct carving, yielding unique pieces made entirely with tools she wielded herself. Named after the Greek goddess of dawn, Christie’s said its swelling form “suggests emergence, awakening and renewal: a new world coming into being”. (PA) Across ‘Sculpture with Colour (Eos)’, three shaped hollows are accentuated with paint – a deep, rich blue, a subtle pale grey and pure white. The artwork is one of just three known coloured stone carvings by the artist from 1946. It appeared in a Lee …

Hurricane Simon pounds resorts and vulnerable towns along Mexico’s Pacific coast

Hurricane Simon pounds resorts and vulnerable towns along Mexico’s Pacific coast

Published by Sam Flores

Workers place sandbags outside a restaurant as Hurricane Simon approaches Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. Fernando Llano/AP hide caption toggle caption i Fernando Llano/AP PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Hurricane Simon pounded Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 3 storm on Sunday, its eye remaining just offshore as its most powerful winds and rain slammed people living between the Sierra Madre and the ocean. The hurricane’s center swirled parallel to the coast, closing in on the Puerto Vallarta area, where its most damaging winds and rain were expected to hit around midnight and continue through Monday morning. Its maximum sustained winds weakened Sunday to 120 mph (195 kph), according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, but it was still expected to remain a dangerous hurricane. That’s not good news for people in and around Puerto Vallarta, a popular tourist destination in the state of Jalisco. Just inland and uphill from the resort areas, many Mexicans live in communities where housing might not stand up to the storm. By Sunday afternoon, Simon’s eye …

Hurricane Isaias: Watch Gulf Coast webcams as landfall looms

Hurricane Isaias: Watch Gulf Coast webcams as landfall looms

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Hurricane Isaias is making its way toward landfall on the Gulf Coast late tonight or early Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. The storm strengthened to Category 3 on Friday morning as it continued to push its way toward shore, the National Hurricane Center confirmed. Spaghetti models predict the storm to make landfall somewhere between Gulf Shores, Alabama and Fort Walton Beach, Florida, according to storm tracking site Cyclocane. Spaghetti models are collections of storm-tracking forecasts that plot the storm’s path and are overlaid on a map to provide a rough consensus on its track. It’s important to realize that, regardless of where the storm makes landfall, Hurricane Isaias is a large storm with hurricane-force winds extending up to 30 miles and tropical-storm-force winds extending up to 185 miles, according to the 8 a.m. ET NHC forecast. As the storm pushes in toward land, Hurricane Isaias’ arrival can be watched in real-time via cams along the Gulf Coast. We’ve gathered a collection of webcams that are livestreaming now. Pensacola, Florida webcams The YouTube channel …

Silent Hill: Townfall review – shame and suffering on the Scottish coast

Silent Hill: Townfall review – shame and suffering on the Scottish coast

Published by Sam Flores

You spend a considerable portion of Silent Hill: Townfall in a kind of foetal position, cowering behind objects that will be eerily familiar to anyone who lived in the UK during the 1990s. Cars seem to be modelled on the era’s boxy Volkswagen Golfs; logos adorning phone boxes should narrowly escape the attention of copyright lawyers at BT Group. (For millennials, the deja vu will likely intensify the horror, as if stepping back into a childhood nightmare.) Simon, the nerdy, unassuming star of the game, pokes his head around corners to catch a glimpse of the demonic entities that wish to maim him, before shrinking back down again with a downwards motion of the analogue stick. In such moments, it’s easy to imagine him wrapping his arms around his knees, clasping his eyes shut and wishing himself away from this place. The game’s setting, St Amelia, is based on the fishing communities of the East Neuk of Fife. The terror lurking here is wonderfully specific: absent lairds, island poverty, an oil-drilling corporation. Anguished beasts lumber …

World War II shell detonated on British Coast 

World War II shell detonated on British Coast 

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. It’s common to find things among the sand while strolling along a beach: shells, seaglass, bits of and seaweed. But in Essex, England, a beachgoer found something quite different on the coast of Southend-On-Sea: a World War II explosive. Southend-On-Sea’s HM Coastguard intervened over the weekend after someone reported a “shell-shaped object” less than half a mile south of a local monument called “The Crowstone.” The team first showed up early in the morning to locate the object and send pictures to the Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams.  The Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams decided that disposal officers should remain on the scene, but that everyone should go back at low tide to identify the object and execute a plan. When they returned that …

California coast braces for another battering as new El Niño-related wave emerges in Pacific

California coast braces for another battering as new El Niño-related wave emerges in Pacific

Published by Sam Flores

California beach communities are expected to see rising sea levels in the coming weeks as El Niño continues to strengthen, with more sand erosion and damage possible, according to new data. Another El Niño-influenced phenomenon — a “coastally trapped Kelvin wave” — is moving up the coast of Mexico and will soon hit the U.S. West Coast. This isn’t a surfable wave, and it wouldn’t be overtly noticeable to swimmers or boaters either. But it is expected to increase the sea level off the California coast by another 6 inches or so, and its effects could last months, according to Dillon Amaya, an expert on coastally trapped waves and an assistant professor at North Carolina State University’s Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. It might not sound like much, but another 6 inches of sea level rise could further bludgeon the already battered California coast, especially if combined with the effects from a storm. “We saw why that’s important recently, with houses across Southern California getting battered, especially at those high tides. We had …

Over 2,000 animals spotted off the coast of Cape Cod

Over 2,000 animals spotted off the coast of Cape Cod

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. When most people gaze out of an airplane window, they admire the fluffy clouds slowly floating past them. But when New England Aquarium Aerial survey observers look out of a plane, they’re scouring the seas for marine animals swimming far below.  And on August 16, the team was  rewarded—big time. While soaring over the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, they spotted over 2,000 animals across 15 different marine species. The Atlantic Ocean marine sanctuary 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod was designated in 2016. It includes four underwater mountains and three deep-sea canyons, landmarks where many different animals feed.  “The diversity of sightings was truly remarkable and a testament to why the Monument is such a special habitat,” Katherine McKenna, a researcher …

Cabo Verde, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe Producers Chat

Cabo Verde, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe Producers Chat

Published by Daniella Wilson

Open Doors, the Locarno Film Festival‘s co-production platform and talent development program for filmmakers from equity-seeking communities and regions where artistic expression is at risk, is ready for its 2026 edition. It is its second that is putting a spotlight on African cinema. The Open Doors Producers program supports producers in their efforts to build sustainable careers and cross-border networks, bringing to the Swiss city six participants. They are Tapiwa Chipfupa of Ambidextrous Pictures in Zimbabwe, an EAVE alumn who recently launched the international training and mentorship program Audiovisual Entrepreneurs Laboratory (AVEL); Adja Mariam Mahre Soro from the Ivory Coast, or Côte d’Ivoire, who leads Studio Kä, an animation studio she founded in Abidjan; Natasha Craveiro from Cabo Verde, whose company Korikaxoru Films produced Omi Nobu, which featured in the Open Doors Screenings at Locarno 2025; veteran Mamounata Nikiema of Pilumpiku Production in Burkina Faso; Nigerian producer David Ikeata of Vox Cinematic Films; and Rua Osman from Sudan, whose Helomur Picture has been behind such festival favorites as Goodbye Julia (Cannes, 2023). Yanis Gaye, a French-Senegalese creative producer, co-founder of the …

David Hirsch, visionary wine grower who transformed Sonoma Coast, dies at 81

David Hirsch, visionary wine grower who transformed Sonoma Coast, dies at 81

Published by Sam Flores

David Hirsch, proprietor of Hirsch Vineyards, winemaker, autodidact, practical geologist, practicing Buddhist and thinking man’s farmer, died Tuesday of respiratory failure in Santa Rosa, Calif., according to his family. He was 81. Over a 45-year second career as a vineyard owner in west Sonoma County, David Hirsch plumbed the mysteries of California vine-growing and its terroir (the ways in which a vineyard site expresses the vicissitudes of climate and soil in the wine) with zeal and attentiveness, transforming a remote corner of a windswept coastland into one of the great sources for Pinot Noir in California, and perhaps the world. Hirsch was born in 1944 in New York. (He retained his thick Bronx accent throughout his life.) In an interview in June, he credited his father for a life marked by insatiable curiosity. Hirsch’s father was a bookseller, and when the family moved to a new home in New Rochelle, N.Y., his father brought his collection of books, some 30,000 volumes. “After school,” Hirsch said, “my job, my homework, was to alphabetize those books, room …

This sensor network could help predict bluff collapses along California’s coast

This sensor network could help predict bluff collapses along California’s coast

Published by Sam Flores

Researchers have figured out how to develop hurricane warnings, tsunami warnings, even an earthquake early warning system. But when it comes to predicting cliff collapses along California’s iconic shoreline, the science has been infamously tricky to pin down. But with every dramatic landslide and tragic death along the coast, officials have turned to scientists for help. Is it possible, many have wondered, to foresee when and where a bluff might collapse — and perhaps even turn these predictions into early warning alerts? Now, after an innovative pilot study backed by decades of specialized research, scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography say they may have cracked the code. In a report released this month, the team shared a proof of concept and found that there are remarkably reliable ways to detect a coastal landslide well before it happens. The pilot study was able to predict five collapses at least several hours — sometimes even days — before they happened. “It was surprising how good the data turned out to be, and how consistent …