• Ninety percent of the fuel lying on the sea bed has now been cleared by a team of divers working continuously for the last three weeks.

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  • She has a kind of glowing-pebble night-light that changes colors very slowly, and she is lying in this sea of stuff: books and broken Nintendos and inflatable Bratz cushions and God knows what else except, from somewhere deep inside the heap, her breathing.

    NEWYORKER: Natalie

  • But even with better data, monsoons are ill-understood once they leave the sea or low-lying land.

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  • The origin of the project stems from a dream Huibers said he had in 1992, in which the low-lying Netherlands was flooded by the North Sea.

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  • Until it is known whether or not there was an explosion on board, or whether the vessel hit something, the Russian press remains bewildered as to why the flagship of the Northern Fleet is lying on the bottom of the Barents Sea, with 116 crew members on board.

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  • In March, Andrew Jelley, father of baby Mylo, called 999 from Sutton on Sea after he found his son lying face down in a pond, apparently not breathing.

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  • Lying there, I could feel the day at sea, a roll and sway in the skull.

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  • Some of the most frightening forecasts in the report centre on the increasing pace of coastal erosion expected to accompany climate change, as sea levels continue to rise and low-lying shores become more vulnerable to storm surges.

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  • There is nothing like lying in the hot springs and bracing for a surge of cold sea water.

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  • At the time the animal died the North Sea did not exist and the area was low-lying grassland connecting the British Isles to the continent.

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  • The Security Council this afternoon expressed concern that the possible adverse effects of climate change could, in the long-run, aggravate certain existing threats to international peace and security and that the loss of territory in some States due to sea-level rise, particularly in small low-lying island States, could have possible security implications.

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  • "I'm excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14, 000 feet below the surface, and we're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor, " the billionaire investor and entrepreneur wrote.

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  • But even more pertinent is the huge variation in their national interests, between those such as low-lying small islands that may literally cease to exist as nations as the sea level rises, and the oil-producing states of the Persian Gulf and Opec for whom the priority is to keep the oil and gas flowing.

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  • The threat is more evident in heavily populated low-lying areas, and the risk multiplies with prospects of climate change and associated sea-level rise.

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  • European countries are among the few developed supporters of renewing Kyoto, along with a chorus of developing nations and low-lying Pacific islands, which are on the front lines of climate change due to rising sea levels.

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