Beach nourishment: artificial process of replenishing a beach with material from another source that lies either inland or is dredged offshore.

UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

Beach downdrift: area of beach towards which material is being moved by longshore transport.

UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

Activities on the site include cleaning the beach (mostly material left by a former tourist industry infrastructure), mangrove restoration and afforestation.

UNESCO: CULTURE

People, furniture, houses, cars, toys, flowers, all the living and material life of a fancy beach resort get pulled into a swirling, tangled mess and are randomly deposited miles inland.

NEWYORKER: The Impossible

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) concluded the chance of a regular beach-user coming into contact with radioactive material ranged from one in 1, 000 to one in 10, 000.

BBC: Dalgety Bay radiation: Particles pose 'low risk' to public

But when you look a little closer, you see dozens of men in white hazmat suits stuffing soiled material into plastic bags, which are then piled onto all-terrain vehicles and taken off the beach.

NPR: San Francisco Bay Oil Spill Investigated