After the Wall of Water, Only Grim Discoveries
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In Cuddalore, India, a wiry gravedigger had no time to waste, no sentiment to spare: just a mass grave for victims, and mass grief.
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Herey Warmadi survived last month's tsunami by climbing to the roof of his motor parts shop. Now tears spring to his eyes at the memory of filthy water and muck filling the place where he earned his living for 42 years.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press  Scientists discover exotic creatures more mysterious than most can imagine.   WASHINGTON -- Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined.
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Peter Annin recalls staring in horror at what had been the coast of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, now a wasteland strewn with scrub brush and corroded hulls of abandoned fishing boats.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Where the canal wall burst and doomed the Lower Ninth Ward during Hurricane Katrina, there now stands an imposing concrete monolith.
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Beneath the snow, ice and bitter cold of Antarctica, scientists have discovered a network of lakes that fill and empty with rapidly flowing water.
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MIKOLAJKI, Poland: The clouds in the clear blue sky seem to skirt the rolling hills in Poland's Masuria Province, as we paddle along a stream so clear that the fish can be seen darting amid a carpet of underwater plants.
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Tiny single-celled organisms, many of them previously unknown, have been discovered beneath nearly seven miles of water in the deepest part of the ocean.
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Many believe the tsunami that devastated this tourist hotspot and killed thousands had one positive side: By washing away rampant development, it returned the beaches to nature.
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New findings suggest that fine clays may be deposited by relatively fast-flowing water.
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CAIRO -- Two outer walls are cracked and crumbling, the bathroom walls have fallen down in a heap of brick, the steps to the second floor wiggle like loose teeth. Groundwater seeps into a little courtyard to form an unwanted wading pool. The whole two-story structure sags in the middle, as if suspended from a rope attached to the buildings next door.
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When residents in a district of the Marshall Islands capital quench their thirst, the water is more than likely to be contaminated by human waste and the decomposed bodies of relatives.
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Spirit, one of the two rovers exploring Mars, has discovered the first rock on the planet that scientists say could have formed only in water - - but whether the water was flowing, or lay like a shallow sea that came and went, remains unknown, the mission
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Few consequences of global warming pose as severe a threat to human society as sea-level rise. But scientists have yet to figure out how to predict it.
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What Greg Ray remembers is seeing a mountain come down on him. What he doesn't understand is why he survived while two of his friends died in a torrent of liquid earth that buried homes in the hamlet of La Conchita.
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New, detailed photographs show evidence of subterranean streams of liquid that once flowed long enough that they could have sustained simple forms of life, researchers say.
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These digital cameras dare to go where few have (willingly) gone before--underwater.