Archaeologists are excavating a graveyard in North Ayrshire in a bid to determine whether victims of a war-time sea tragedy are buried in a mass grave.

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The 1988 North Sea oil platform tragedy saw 167 men die, the world's worst such incident.

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Watson refers to our collective misuse of the sea as a tragedy of the commons.

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Aral Sea Archival Fond (Kazakhstan) consists of files from 1965 to 1990 that record the ecological tragedy of the Aral Sea and attempts to fight it.

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That title surely goes to the tragedy of the Aral Sea.

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Adding to the tragedy, Sopranzi's elderly brother threw himself into the Adriatic Sea soon after the news broke about his sister.

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