• The beach is sheltered by sand dunes overgrown with juniper bushes, and at one point runs between the sea and a saltwater lagoon that is often home to flocks of flamingos.

    BBC: Ten weekends in Europe's great outdoors

  • The Yellow Sea is a longstanding flash point between the two Koreas.

    CNN: Koreas on 'brink of war' because of Seoul, Pyongyang says

  • It may or may not become possible when the fighting is over to devise an international zone between Egypt and Israel which might serve as a secure additional route between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

    ECONOMIST: Splenetic Isolation | The

  • The fifth is the observation in reality of a predicted link between increased sea-surface temperatures and the frequency of the most intense categories of hurricane, typhoon and tropical storm.

    ECONOMIST: Changing science

  • But between setting out a claim under the Law of the Sea and enjoying the fruits of ownership there is a long route to be trodden.

    ECONOMIST: The Arctic

  • The country has been unable to benefit fully from its gas and oil deposits because of an absence of export routes and a dispute between the Caspian Sea littoral states over the legal status of offshore oil.

    BBC: Turkmenistan profile

  • Within a year, the Sands Macao had recouped its construction costs, of two hundred and sixty-five million dollars, and Adelson embarked on an idea that he described as coming to him in a dream: to replicate the Las Vegas Strip on a stretch of open sea between two islands in Macau.

    NEWYORKER: The God of Gamblers

  • When God finally gets tired of waiting it out and decides to end things, the back-and-forth between dragons and serpents and sea monsters and Jesus is less like a scouring of the stables than like a Giants-Patriots Super Bowl.

    NEWYORKER: The Big Reveal

  • Ian Bell once again fell between the devil and the deep blue sea, making a patient 31 but failing to produce the major innings expected.

    BBC: SPORT | Cricket | Unconvincing England beat Ireland

  • The intelligence official, who could also not be named for security reasons, said the launches came as no surprise because North Korea had issued a warning to mariners to avoid an area in the Sea of Japan at certain times between June 24 and July 9 because of a "military firing exercise, " according to a U.S. military communication about the warning provided to CNN.

    CNN: Report: North Korea test fires four missiles

  • Russia's natural resources minister Jurij Trutnev, meanwhile, has been making optimistic noises in recent weeks about the likelihood of a resolution of a long-standing border dispute between the two nations over a 155, 000 square kilometres "grey area" in the Barents Sea.

    BBC: Arctic landscape

  • His aim during a 100-day voyage that will take him from San Francisco, California, to Sydney, Australia, is to find the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between California and Japan -- a massive sea of plastic trash that environmentalists say could soon be larger than the continental United States.

    CNN: Environmentalist: It's becoming a plastic world

  • To the north, hopes are pinned to the construction of a 12km (7.4 mile) dam between the two sections of the sea.

    ECONOMIST: The Aral Sea

  • Cyprus announced the discovery of a field containing between 5 and 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas under the Mediterranean Sea in 2011 but Turkey disputes its drilling rights.

    BBC: Cyprus leader Nicos Anastasiades 'fights EU on bailout'

  • Unfortunately two of the tags were lost - they skimmed on the water just before they hit the walruses, sinking to the bottom of the sea, but another one, launched by Ole with the harpoon, hit a walrus squarely between the shoulders - the perfect place for a sat-tag.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Walrus Watch: Reporter's log

  • Now on the scale of the next century, the projections are suggesting that, between the ice and thermal expansion of the ocean, that we're likely to see upwards of a meter of sea level rise.

    NPR: Oceanographer Sees Real Effects of Climate Change

  • Last year, however, a consortium led by BP opened a huge pipeline between Baku, on the Caspian Sea, and the Turkish port of Ceyhan.

    ECONOMIST: Pipeline politics | The

  • To drill the well, engineers have devised an ingenious system of hollow "riser pipes" that create a hermetic seal between the well opening on the sea floor and the ship swaying above.

    FORBES: The delicate art of sucking up

  • Tunisia still has to chart a path for its new constitution between looking out across the sea to Europe, or turning towards its Arab Muslim neighbours.

    BBC: Tunisia election: Loving and loathing Islamists

  • Washington has a strong interest in stability in the Caspian Sea nation, which sits at a strategically vital point between Iran, Russia and Turkey.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Observers condemn Azeri election

  • Six British crew members and one American were killed Saturday in a midair collision between two British Navy Sea King helicopters over the Persian Gulf, according to the UK Central Command in Qatar and the Pentagon.

    CNN: Pilots dead after Patriot accident

  • Sounds silly, but in between the jumping in and throwing of and inviting friends over for a swim through my sea of rainbow colored play balls, my brain had time to recharge the parts that were slumped.

    FORBES: The Surprising Way to Get Out of a Slump

  • The additional names of those who died at sea between 1855 and 1999, were unveiled at a dedication ceremony earlier.

    BBC: RNLI memorial in Poole has 28 lifesavers names added

  • Photographer Neil A White's Lost Villages project documents this constant battle between the North Sea and the land in this part of the British Isles, one that endures the highest rate of coastal erosion in Europe.

    BBC: Lost villages

  • Russia's Northern Sea Route, hugging the Siberian coast, cuts the normal distance between Europe and Asia by more than a third.

    ECONOMIST: Global warming

  • As its grand schemes falter, the state is pressing ahead with a more modest plan to turn between 400 and 800 acres (160-320 hectares) of the sea into shallow ponds.

    ECONOMIST: In a ��green�� state, an environmental disaster looms

  • It says Delhi has not responded to Italian requests to seek a diplomatic solution to the case, and there is now a formal dispute between the two countries over the terms of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, according to Reuters.

    BBC: Italy blocks marines' Indian murder trial

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