In an Instant, the Land Merged With the Sea
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All around the periphery of the Indian Ocean last Sunday morning, people were going about their lives in the most prosaic and familiar of ways: shopping for vegetables, watching cricket on television, hauling in fishing nets, lounging at poolside.
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A genetic study sheds light on the mystery of how fish made the move from water to land millions of years ago.
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By Beth Daley, The Boston Globe  Jun. 4--When an April northeaster punched a gap through the long, sandy  spit that forms Nauset Beach in Chatham, local geologists and officials were  not overly alarmed.
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By JOHN FALLON  A EUR4.5MILLION rescue plan was put in place yesterday to help islanders whose homes were about to fall into the sea.   Chunks of land on Inishbofin off the Co Galway coast fell into the sea in recent storms.
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Back when everyone believed the world was flat, people thought these rocky shores on Spain's windswept "coast of death" were the end of the world. In today's world, you only need a mobile phone to get there ... and back.
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A bizarre marine reptile used a neck nearly twice the length of its body to capture its prey, 230 million years ago. Fish saw only its small head in murky waters and, when they came too close, the animal quickly
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It was an impossibly small space to begin something so grand.
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Two celebrations separated by Sundays on either side of the Irish Sea could not have looked more different. Nor could they have been more emotionally connected.
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It was astonishing to see extensive TV news coverage of the aftermath of Typhoon Aere: the mudslides in Tuchang Village in Hsinchu County&#39;s Wufeng Township, the first major flooding
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SACRAMENTO -- They were at a seaside bungalow when the Indian Ocean swelled unexpectedly and roared mercilessly onto land. The invading currents swept Laura Wales in a swirl of debris, but somehow she survived.
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The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
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Yesterday's  massive tsunamis were  triggered when a plate of earth that was dug like a bulldozer blade into the ocean floor off the coast of western Indonesia broke through layers of rocky resistance and created a rupture hundreds of miles in length, geologists said.
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The winds of change are upon us.
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Take three strangers and put them together on a Nassau County beach during Memorial Day weekend.  Add a helpless child, then throw in some treacherous rip currents, and suddenly you have an incredibly inspiring story of heroism.  Real heroism.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The first images yesterday of the seabed battered by the earthquake that triggered Asia's catastrophic tsunami revealed huge ruptures spanning several miles.
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Land purchase gives Fools something to watch.
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A newly-wed couple are among those lifted to safety after a ship was hit by a giant wave off the Isles of Scilly.