Vladivostok Falls From a Pristine Beach to a Coastal Ruin
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By Sarah J. Wachter  The waters in the sea of Japan surrounding this port city in Russia's Far East were so pure in the 1950s that its 250,000 residents would swim at city beaches.
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MOSCOW, Jan 10  (IPS) - Shock waves from the tsunami hit the little Russian  town Beslan particularly hard.
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Instead of the beach or mountains, more tourists now spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity.  A former war correspondent offers a word of caution
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MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka -- As far as the eye can see in this northern coastal town, shards of brick, asbestos roofing, and glass from destroyed houses litter a once-pristine beach. Uprooted trees, strewn with shreds of clothing ripped off people's bodies as the water engulfed them, lie half-buried in the sand.
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Rescue services brought hundreds of fishermen to safety Saturday after they were stranded on ice floes that had broken away from the coast in Russia's Far East, emergency officials said.
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A Russian dive that was the basis of a claim to nearly half of the Arctic seabed had American origins.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. Sept. 29, 2004 - Many of Florida&#39;s beaches have taken on a different look after this year&#39;s parade of hurricanes finished shifting, eroding or completely relocating tons of sand.
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By BILL TROTTER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  ACADIA NATIONAL PARK - There is a large scar on the eastern side of Champlain Mountain where an earthquake last fall shook loose a huge chunk of rock and sent it tumbling into the trees below.
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Hurricane Ivan&#39;s storm surge and pounding waves swamped the barrier islands that stand guard along the central Gulf of Mexico coast, eroding their protective
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MEULABOH, Indonesia -- In town after town, the scene was the same from the helicopter taking one of the first glimpses of Sumatra's ravaged coast: whole villages ripped apart, covered in mud and sea water. The only signs of life were a few desperate people scavenging a beach for food.
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The remnants of deadly Hurricane Ivan,  which rampaged through the Caribbean and then into the U.S.  Gulf Coast a week ago, killing more than 100 people, have  reformed in the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical storm threatening  the Texas and Louisiana coasts.
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Local authorities on Bulgaria's southern Black Sea coast are planning to build hotels and vacation villages all along the scenic shoreline at a length of more that 100 kilometres (62 miles), a report said ...
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Damage from Ivan is widespread, but softened by warnings, evacuations, and preparatory effort.
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The ferry Meloodia slices through the gentle swell of the Baltic Sea, a trip far removed from the night of horror a decade ago when its sister ship, the Estonia, sank during a raging storm with the loss of 852 ...
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MOSCOW  - The death toll from a devastating fire stood at 26 after emergency workers finished clearing up the ruins of a wooden apartment building that burned to the ground in Siberia, officials said Saturday.
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In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.
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In town after town, the scene was the same from the helicopter taking one of the first glimpses of Sumatra's ravaged coast: whole villages ripped apart, covered in mud and sea water. The only signs of life were a handful of desperate people scavenging a beach for food.