How Sturdy Is Your Sand Castle? Itâs All About the Water
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Researchers used X-ray microtomography to look at how the water is distributed in the mix with sand used to make a sand castle.
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When an earthquake knocked down a section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, engineers vowed to make a stronger span. But years later, that plan is still mired in controversy. Part 2 of 2. By Amit Asaravala.
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By Martin Shipton  An end to offshore sand dredging could lead to quarrying in some of Wales's most beautiful landscapes, environmentalists have been warned.
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By LIZ HULL A PENSIONER has been threatened with prison or a Pounds 50,000 fine if he takes windblown sand back to the beach where it came from. Arthur Bulmer's seafront garden became carpeted after a week of storms swept tons of sand from the beach across the road.
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Jack Connors and I are sitting on our usual bench at Castle Island. Lunch is the usual, too: couple of hot dogs each, mustard and relish, and we split an order of onion rings, though neither of us needs them. We talk about the governor&#146;s race. We gossip about what&#146;s happening downtown and at the Globe. We talk about how ...
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By DEIRDRE FERNANDES  BY DEIRDRE FERNANDES  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  VIRGINIA BEACH - Sandbridge is buzzing again about a businessman's plan to build 76 boat docks close to the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, two years after it was first proposed.
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The worldâs tallest sand dunes, some half a kilometre high, survive in a windy desert in northern China because water cements them together, a new study suggests.
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By DAVID JEFFS  FAMILY holidays in Woolacombe as a child always bring to mind two words - wet and windy!   Many a week I shivered behind a windbreak on the beach as rain bucketed down.
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By Anna Jeys  IT wasn't exactly the right weather as rain threatened to put a damp-ener on the launch of Birmingham's latest beach.
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But at this price, it's a watercourse worth riding.
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Many of Florida's beaches have taken on a different look after this year's parade of hurricanes finished shifting, eroding or completely relocating tons of sand. How to deal with that change will be a complicated and costly problem, coastal experts say.
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It's not the size of your offshore rigs, it's how you use them.
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By Kieran Falconer  One of my earliest memories is of feeling the sand - just sitting and rubbing sand between my fingers and toes. Later, as older boys, we would slope off from home - and school, of course - and head straight for the beach.
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Much more than hot dogs, beaches and long weekends.
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At a time when property sales have fallen, a beach hut that measures 8ft by 14ft has been bought for Â£100,000. The one-room brick chalet at Sandbanks, Dorset, with an impressive view over
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Using wind to make clean water could be a winning combination.
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InfoWorld - In just three years, the bytes of data generated by digital cameras, mobile phones, businesses IT systems, and devices will equal the number of grains of sand on the world&#39;s beaches.