Booming waves and beach vigils for UK "surf widows"
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A century  ago they might have scanned the sea for returning fishermen or  for the spoils from wrecked ships, but on a February weekend  the only women wandering this squally Devon beach are "surf  widows."
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From hardest-hit Sri Lanka to resort islands in Thailand, holidaymakers from Britain described the destruction caused when tidal waves triggered by a powerful earthquake off Indonesia hit their resorts, in messages to radio, television stations and news agencies back home.
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Dude, nothing will harsh your mellow faster than catching a few tasty waves and running into someone else's trash.  The First Coast Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is teaming with the city's Clean it Up, Green it Up department Saturday to clean up the beaches.
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Science & environment: A nationwide clean-up of Britain's beaches is under way this weekend amid growing concern over  the threat from  litter to fish, birds, reptiles and marine mammals.
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The tsunamis that claimed thousands of lives across the Indian Ocean are the deadliest great waves in more than a century and probably in modern history.
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LISBON, Sep 27 (IPS) - Atlantic Ocean waves are to light up 1,500 homes in  the north of Portugal. The first 2.25 megawatts of electricity  produced from wave power will be brought ashore at AguÃ§adoura, on  the northern coast, as of October.
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Islanders on tiny Tuvalu in the South Pacific last week saw the future of global warming and rising sea levels, as extreme high tides caused waves to crash over crumbling sea-walls and flood their homes.
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It&#39;s not London (020), and it doesn&#39;t much resemble Birmingham (0121). People visit it from Glasgow (0141) and go surfing it in Ipswich (01473).
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Massive waves created by violent storms off Britain and Ireland are ripping off chunks of cliff and hurling them inland over distances scientists did not think possible.
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The waves have been  nicknamed Cyclops, Jaws and Dungeons and are the new  life-and-death playground for a unique breed of surfers who  ride gargantuan ocean waves as big as a seven storey building.
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Witness accounts from people who saw the huge waves triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian coast.
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Waves and sharks aren't the only dangers at the beach. More than two dozen young people have been killed over the last decade when sand holes collapsed on them, report father-and-son doctors who have made warning of the risk their personal campaign.
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Pensioners celebrate after their internet cafÃ© is chosen as one of the world's best places to surf the internet.
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Millions of people across the UK and Europe are to observe a three minute silence  for the Asian tsunami dead.
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A series of special prayer services are being held across the UK for the Asia earthquake victims.
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Families throughout Europe are spending anxious hours desperate for news of loved ones after giant waves slammed into some of the world's most popular south Asian resorts at peak season, killing thousands of ...
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PARIS - The giant, deadly waves of seawater that crashed through coastal towns in Asia and parts of east Africa last weekend are commonly called tidal waves, but that term is not strictly correct, say scientists, who prefer the word tsunami.