Rising Bay Puts Cemeteries at Risk
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HOOPERSVILLE, Md. -- After Annie E. Wroten died in July 1903, she was laid in a red-brick vault in a little cemetery here among tomato farms and loblolly pines. Almost 104 years later, she's about to be buried at sea.
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Residents in parts of Perthshire are warned of a serious flooding risk, with levels expected to rise.
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Imperial Qing dynasty tombs near Beijing which date back more than 300 years are under threat from illegal mining, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Today the National Trust for Historic Preservation plans to sound the alarm by declaring Brooklynâs industrial waterfront one of Americaâs 11 most endangered historic places.
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British seaside resorts risk becoming no-go areas for families if they do not crack down on drink-fuelled louts, a leading tourism chief is warning.
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Maryland's coastal bays support a wide range of aquatic life but are threatened by intense development pressures, according to the first comprehensive study of the chain of shallow bays that separate Ocean City and Assateague Island from the mainland.
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The northern end of the Bay of Bengal could be at risk of giant earthquakes and tsunamis in the coming decades, scientists say.
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By Robin Turner  Tombstoning - the craze in which people jump into the sea from rocks or tall buildings - will kill again, coastguards warned last night. Their alert follows the death of a 46-year-old man from South Wales, who died after jumping 30ft into the sea off the South Devon coast.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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Scientists trace London's inexorable sinking in a study that will be critical to the planning of defences against sea level rise.
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By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  May 28--LINN GROVE -- A shadow of a tall spire reaches across the cemetery almost instantly as the morning sun breaks over the prairie horizon.   Like many headstones here, the spire is stone, or marble or granite.
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A Thai medic sprays disinfectant over the rotting corpses of those killed in Sunday&#39;s tidal waves at a Buddhist temple in Pang-Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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By Brian Skoloff  Associated Press  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A mile offshore from this city's high- rise condos and spring-break bars lie as many as 2 million old tires, strewn across the ocean floor -- a white-walled, steel- belted monument to good intentions gone awry.
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Environmentalists fear a maritime disaster if a beached coal freighter in eastern Australia breaks up.
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Geologists say the risk of a landslide in the Canary Islands causing a tidal wave able to cross the Atlantic is vastly overstated.
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By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  May 28--QUESTION -- I've noticed that cemeteries are filling up, and someday, they'll run out of room. Wouldn't we save a lot of space if we'd bury people standing up instead of lying down?   Answer -- A nice, but odd Memorial Day question.
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Identifying human remains found in the disaster zone grows trickier.