ALBANIA:  Saving Beaches for Others, and Itself
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TIRANA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Albania has launched a new programme to save its  beaches for tourists â and from tourists.
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Â· Bereaved husband looking after orphans Â· Algarve beach is favoured by surfers for strong waves
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Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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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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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  May 26--Combining Destin and Okaloosa Island beach restoration into a single project would save money for both the city and county, a county offi cial says.
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TIRANA, Jun 29 (IPS) - Albania is too often and too superficially  described as "a European country little is known about."  The issues the nation of 3.1 million is facing on its thorny road  of development and towards democracy are also often met with  little knowledge and loads of prejudice abroad.
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ATHENS, Sep 17 (IPS) - Some years ago most Greeks knew Albania only as an  unknown frontier. It was a country from which impoverished  migrants crossed into Greece in search of a job and a better  life; a place that people were leaving, where nobody wanted to go.
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By Victoria Mitchell  SCOTLAND'S bathing beaches have never been cleaner, it was confirmed yesterday.  More than 60 designated bathing areas on the coast passed tough European standards for the first time in 20 years.
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Should taxpayers pay to safeguard coastal residents from the ocean or should beach towns shovel the sand themselves?
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 1--SARASOTA --Sarasota County is considering creating designated smoking areas on its public beaches to promote healthier and cleaner places to swim and play.
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VLORA, Albania, Jul 12 (IPS) - The building of a thermal power plant in Vlora  could reduce Albania's electricity deficit, but it would  also damage one of the country's most beautiful tourist  destinations. The local population is fighting to have the  factory built elsewhere.
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Although the oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface, human activity has affected even the remotest corners of the marine environment -- usually for the worse.
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By Melanie Marquez, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec. 14--BRADENTON -- Concerns from a local environmental group didn't keep the Bradenton City Council from adopting amendments Wednesday that define how many units can be built along parts of the city's shorelines.
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Petroleum spas are making an unlikely return in a country so awash in oil these days that people are swimming in it.
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A UN campaign launched in Greece is urging people living on the Mediterranean coast to stop treating the sea as a dustbin.
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The World Bank is hiring experts in 'adaptation' to a warming world. Coastal planners are starting to take it into account.
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Monitoraggio dei ricercatori del Tethys in santuario Pelagos