There is imprecision of just what the winds and the sea state will do with this slick as it moves closer to land.
We had a situation over the weekend where we had boom in place back behind Dauphin Island, Alabama, and the sea state actually defeated the boom and we had some oil come ashore there and had to deal with that.
Austin, essentially, reaps the benefits of being a deep blue, Democratic island in a red-state sea.
Flanked by the mountainous Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, the slender state descends from tea plantation-cloaked slopes to golden beaches that edge into vivid blue seas.
The loneliness was very much like sea glass, if sea glass could be a state of mind.
Malaysia's Sabah state shares a sea border with the southern Philippines, which is home to a number of Islamic militant and kidnap-for ransom groups.
Moscow (CNN) -- Russia's security service has foiled a plot to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea city of Sochi, state media reported Thursday.
Most secretaries of state seem at sea when they are not overseas: Mr Baker once tried to explain the Gulf war by saying limply that, well, it did mean jobs.
Today, US military weather satellites return daily data on the state of the sea-ice at both poles, but the NSIDC team is keen to retrieve as much information as possible from the early, experimental Nasa Earth-observers.
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Thus, Colombia was converted into a weak state submerged in a sea of anarchy.
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Lugar and other proponents of the Law of the Sea Treaty (including the Navy, State Department and environmentalists who will also be represented at the Brookings meeting) contend that a 1994 pact called "the Agreement" fixed what President Reagan thought ailed the original accord.
Kazakhstan has extended a state of emergency in the Caspian Sea town of Zhanaozen, where oil workers have been protesting for months.
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And in February 2009 it was discovered that scientists had previously been underestimating the re-growth of Arctic sea ice by an area larger than the state of California (twice as large as New Zealand).
By 2010 it expects to send gas in liquefied state from reserves near the Barents Sea to ports in the U.S. And the company is looking eastward, too, with plans to build pipelines to China.
Portland State funded the study along with Oregon Sea Grant, a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Its leader, Aslan Abashidze, runs an odd and throughly autocratic mini-state, Ajaria, on the Black Sea border with Turkey.
Moscow (CNN) -- French-born actor Gerard Depardieu arrived in the Black Sea resort of Sochi Saturday, according to Russian state media, a day after he announced that he had accepted Russian citizenship.
When talking about Palestine, the speaker is referring to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River that includes the Jewish state of Israel and the Palestinian lands of the West Bank and Gaza.
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Federal, state and local authorities searched by air and sea for a boat Hakken had recently bought.
Federal, state and local authorities searched by air and sea for the sailboat Joshua Hakken had recently purchased.
"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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"When we topped the bridge and looked down and saw the sea of blue and the sheriff's deputies and Alabama state troopers on the other side of that bridge, then we immediately knew that there was a problem, " recalls Jimmie Wallace, one of the marchers.
And the government insists that the state of the economy will inevitably be felt on the sea bed, like everywhere else.
In 1996, more than 2, 000 people were killed or lost at sea when a cyclone struck India's major crop-growing state of Andhra Pradesh.
Local resident U Than Htun said the boat was crossing the mouth of the Sittwe River on its way to Sittwe, the state capital some 27km (17 miles) away by sea, when it sank.
Dillingham is in the southwestern part of the state, as the locals say, where the tundra meets the sea.
Newspapers report on talks between Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Phnom Penh, as tension over the South China Sea disputes continues.
The term describes the moment at which the planet shifts from one environmental state to another: in this case, from an Arctic with summer sea ice to one without it.
Pundits have been predicting that the North Sea would run out of oil ever since Tony Benn, the then secretary of state for energy, turned on the tap in 1975.
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As the elected District Attorney for the Delta County where Till was killed, Chiles faces questions from her fellow prosecutors at their state meeting, where she's the only black woman in a sea of white faces.
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