Almost 60 million years ago, a series of natural events—including volcanic eruptions, erosion, glacial movement, and sea level rise—created Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway: a coastal area made of ...

Tourists have recently developed a troubling tradition of jamming coins into the rocks at Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. While seemingly harmless, this practice is detracting from the site’s ...

Visitors to the Giant’s Causeway, the world-famous tourist attraction in Northern Ireland, are being urged not to indulge in the popular ritual of wedging coins in between the site’s iconic stones. UK ...

Coins wedged into the basalt rock columns of Giant's Causeway by tourists are causing damage and have prompted a warning from the UK's National Trust, the conservation charity which protects and cares ...