Washed up timber shuts beach
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Water sports enthusiasts are warned to stay clear of timber from a sunken cargo ship as a beach is closed.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - State water and wildlife managers are taking advantage of an unprecedented drought by removing life-choking muck along Lake Okeechobee's shoreline.
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By SARAH ARNOLD; BARRY WIGMORE A MESS of timber and flotsam is all that remains of a family's home. Even as we watch, the ground shudders and gives way. Another house falls into the sea.
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By Chrissy Vick, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Sep. 8--NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH -- Endangered homes on the north end of North Topsail Beach received some relief this week.   The U.S.
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A 40,000-tonne coal ship is finally refloated after more than three weeks stranded on an Australian beach.
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Thousands of bananas washed up on two Dutch North Sea islands on Wednesday after at least six containers fell off a cargo ship in a storm and one burst open, a local official said.
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By Richard Weizel, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 10--STRATFORD -- The cottages on Long Beach are empty now, leaving the fate of the peninsula, which was once an island, to the natural flow of time and tides -- at least for now.
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By Dan Cortez and Steve Neavling, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 5--Two St. Clair Shores beaches were closed today due to high E.coli bacteria levels.
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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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Thousands of croakers have washed ashore at beaches in recent days, the latest mass deaths of the popular sport and food fish.
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BATON ROUGE, La. Oyster harvesting was closed in south Louisiana due to the possibility that Tropical Storm Matthew dirtied oyster reefs.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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Volunteers are being brought in to help clean beaches littered with debris from a grounded cargo ship off the Devon coast.
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Police investigate after a woman out walking her dog finds a human leg washed up on a Galloway beach.
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At least 20 endangered sea turtles have washed up dead along the southern Bangladesh coast over the last week.
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More than 2,000 tonnes of timber off a sunken ship have washed up on the English south coast, littering beaches with giant piles of wood.