Shipwreck timber surrounds coast
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Thousands of tonnes of timber are washed on to south coast beaches after a cargo ship sinks off Dorset.
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Environmentalists, sportsmen and investors wrestle over parcels sold off by timber companies that have fallen on hard times.
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Digital models of an historic ship are created as part of its restoration to test if it will survive the process.
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A search is underway around Maria Island on the east coast of the Australian state of Tasmania to see if there have been any further whale and dolphin strandings.
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SAIDIA, Morocco  - Ecologists say a tragedy is unfolding in north Africa where construction firms are moving in on some of the last unspoilt stretches of Mediterranean coastline in the search for profits.
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More than 21 tons of lead, zinc, barium, copper and other toxic metals have fallen or washed away from decaying government ships in Suisun Bay, and high levels of the materials were found in sediment under the vessels, according to a draft report.
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VANCOUVER -- An already buoyant lumber market is getting a psychological boost from the combined impact of hurricane Charley and reports of surprisingly strong US housing construction activity.
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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Twenty crew have been rescued from a ship which is listing in the Channel about 35 miles off the Devon coast.
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Salvage teams fear for three stranded ships, with warnings of more bad weather across the country
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measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale - happened in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Australia and Antarctica. It occurred early Christmas Eve around 800km off the coast and could be felt throughout Tasmania.
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Rescue operations are under way after two ships run aground amid stormy seas
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 11--OCEAN SPRINGS -- The surge-damaged home of Robert Wiygul and Julia Weaver will be dismantled in January and many of its parts distributed to Coast people who need building materials.   It could start a trend.
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By Patricia ?tsh? Hancock, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 17--GULFPORT -- "Nothing is too big for Mt. Bethel construction," said Fred Brown, a Coast volunteer from Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church in Marietta, Ga.
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People are wading into water along the south coast to grab timber from a cargo ship that sank off Dorset.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Nearly 41 years ago, Alaskan  Doug McCrae was clinging to a roof with his family as huge  waves of debris-choked water slammed into Seward and other  coastal Alaska towns after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake shook  nearby Prince William Sound.
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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.