What if the answer to saving West Africa's rapidly disappearing coastline is a massive sand sculpture? While these carefully engineered sand landscapes require a significant upfront investment, they ...

When governments find themselves fighting the threat of coastal erosion, their default response tends to be pretty simple: If sand is disappearing from a beach, they pump in more sand to replace it.

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When governments find themselves fighting the threat of coastal erosion, their default response tends to be ...