But Vanuatu has 10 idyllic white-sand islands, clear waters, waterfalls, great diving, the world's most accessible live volcano and food that grows faster than it can be picked.

而是瓦努阿图有诗意美妙的白沙岛、清澈的海水、瀑布、很棒的潜水区、世界上最易到达的活火山，还有收割不尽的粮食。

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Archaeology received a gift from nature in 1850, when a strong storm hit the Orkney Islands, stripping away sand dunes and uncovering the remains of the Skara Brae settlement.

考古于1850年收到了来自大自然的礼物，当强风暴袭击的奥克尼群岛时剥离了沙丘和揭露了斯卡拉布雷下陷的残存部分。

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Louisiana officials want to start building sand berms as barrier islands, to block oil from entering the fragile marsh ecosystems;

路易斯安那州官员希望开始建造作为屏障的沙堤来阻止石油侵入脆弱的沼泽生态系统；

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Hundreds of the islands are only pieces of sand that extend a few feet out of the water.

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Many of the islands have beautiful white sand beaches.

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The authorities have declared large stretches of normally white-sand beaches along the popular surf region of the Sunshine Coast a disaster zone, as well as Moreton and Bribie islands, which are national parks.

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The streets of Labuan Bajo are lined with travel agents and diving outfits offering day and overnight trips to the hundreds of pristine sand-ringed islands that lie offshore.

CNN: West Flores: So much more than Komodo dragons

What should be a shallow, marshy environment, complete with a complex set of channels, islands and sand bars is becoming a flat, scoured bay subject to the full force of the Adriatic.

ECONOMIST: Flood barriers

President Obama announced Thursday that the federal government was approving a small part of a plan by state and local officials in Louisiana to spray sand on gulf barrier islands to build them up as a defense against incoming oil.

WSJ: Gauging Harm to Ecosystem Could Take Years