We went to some topless beaches.

Control of ports, coasts and beaches

Some beaches had failed to comply with environmental regulations.

On nesting beaches, they entangle young ones (Ross, 1987).

Narrator Eventually, these beasts are going to live in herds on the beaches.

Theo Jansen I want to put these forms of life on the beaches.

Now, when the debris washes up on the beaches of Hawaii it looks like this.

We wouldn't tolerate our parks being swamped by human sewage, but beaches are closed a lot in our country.

The average annual amount of litter cleaned up on those beaches is 6,000 to 8,000 m3 (20 26 m3 per km).

According to Saudi Arabia, 130,000 wading birds (mainly plovers and sandpipers) are normally found between March and May on its beaches.

They're built on the hills, inland from the beaches in Rio, and you can see that the houses are just cantilevered over the natural obstructions.

We tried it out, first in Luton famous for its airport and not much else, I fear and in Blackpool famous for its beaches and leisure.

The decision has an obvious public relations dimension. Oil contaminated birds and beaches make appalling pictures, whereas dead fish and shrimp larvae go unnoticed by cameras.

Swedish municipalities on the country's west coast (facing the North Sea) spend an estimated 1.6 million on cleaning beaches each year (involving only about 3,600 km).

It happens because we have jammed so much into the base of the natural ocean pyramid that these bacteria clog it up and overfill onto our beaches.

It's a shrimp like animal called the stomatopod, and here's how it moves on the beaches of Panama it actually rolls, and it can even roll uphill.

Four years ago, I was at the beach with my son, and he was learning how to swim in this relatively soft surf of the Delaware beaches.

More than six decades of bombing had contaminated the waters and beaches of Vieques, not only damaging the local economy but also seriously endangering the health of the population.

You can see the Lispenard Meadows draining down through here, through what is TriBeCa now, and the beaches that come up from the Battery, all the way to 42nd St.

At least 384 people were killed, many swept away as giant waves crashed onto beaches, when a major earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, authorities said on Saturday.

I have fought in wars, feared for my own survival, watched my cohorts die on beaches and woods that look and feel more real than any textbook or any news story.

FLORENCE Summer is a time for beaches and relaxation and, historically, for all sorts of destructive crises. Time and again, it has proven dangerous for the world to be on holiday.

A rich vegetation, unspoiled beaches, yachting marinas and fine coral reefs make the islands a natural tourist destination, and tourism continues to be the most important economic sector for the Territory.

We could drive it back to its ecological fundamentals to the hills, to the streams, to the basic hydrology and shoreline, to the beaches, the basic aspects that make the ecological landscape.

You can think of these as neighborhoods, as distinctive as TriBeCa and the Upper East Side and Inwood that these are the forest and the wetlands and the marine communities, the beaches.

The cost of illegal fishing of green sea turtles in Costa Rica in 2000 was estimated to be 1,142 per turtle due to losses in visitors to nesting beaches and habitats when populations decline.

And so there's this war between the farmers and the fishermen about it all, and the net result is that the beaches of Brittany have to be bulldozed of this stuff on a regular basis.

Now, I said all these animals are sort of working like pogo sticks they're bouncing along as they move. And you can see that in this ghost crab, from the beaches of Panama and North Carolina.

For example, in land use, which areas do you want to protect, through adding a seawall, for example, alter, by raising buildings, or retreat from, to allow the migration of important natural systems, such as wetlands or beaches?

Located about 200 kilometers away from the south of Bangkok, the city is a summer resort for the Thai royal household, where there are a number of beautiful beaches, national parks, historic sites and ruins of royal household.

And you can see from this map, there's this incredible geographical signature of a series of islands that were out in the harbor and a matrix of salt marshes and beaches that served as natural wave attenuation for the upland settlement.

We can't see CO2 we depend on scientific measurements for it and we see the beginning results of having too much of it but we can see pre CO2 now floating on the waters and contaminating the beaches in the Gulf.

Beaches, mostly in Mexico but to some extent also in the United States, were hit, and birds succumbed in large numbers, despite the dispersion efforts. Because of the dispersion, shrimp, squid, and some fish populations suffered, with fisheries hit even harder.

From this perspective, America s involvement in World War I and, even more so, in World War II, are exceptions to the rule. The US troops that landed on Normandy beaches in June 1944 were animated by a strong sense of mission.

Yes, many of Greece's troubles were of its own making. Pension benefits have been widely abused, tax collection is a mess, and (aside from beautiful beaches) the country offers few goods and services that the rest of the world wants to buy.

They recognize that, while their supporters may be devout Muslims, they also need to earn a living empty hotels and beaches would be economically disastrous. Thus, tourism professionals in both countries have received strong government assurances that business will continue as usual.

These include damage to fisheries, fishing boats and gear, damage to cooling water intakes in power stations, contamination of beaches (requiring cleaning operations), contamination of commercial harbours and marinas (demanding cleaning operations) and contamination of coastal grazing land, causing injury to livestock.

Marine litter related damage to people also includes safety risks at sea (demanding rescue services) owing, inter alia, to fouling of propellers, as well as damage to people's health (injuries, disease) from litter on beaches and in bathing water, including medical waste.

Lost recreational opportunities Kuwait states that its claim for lost recreational opportunities represents the e conomic value of the welfare loss associated with lost opportunities for performing recreational activities at beaches and at sea during and after Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait .

In the journey lasting four days and three nights, Taiwan self driving tour lovers will conduct a self driving experience of scenic areas or spots such as Yangjia Stream and the beaches in Xiapu, the Taimu Mountain in Fuding and the Baishuiyang Geological Landscape in Pingnan.

I was in Sri Lanka, for example, three days after the tsunami, and I was standing on the beaches and it was absolutely clear that, in a matter of five minutes, a 30 foot wave could rise up and desecrate a people, a population and lives.

Whether or not to disperse oil has been a key strategic question since combating spills began in earnest in the 1960 s. The answer depends on whether the priority for protection is birds and beaches, or other forms of marine life such as fish, shrimps, and mollusks.

In the view of the Panel, it is likely that some people in Kuwait were deprived of opportunities for recreational activities at beaches and at sea during and after Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait, and that this was a direct result of the invasion and occupation.

They provide immediate protection during storm season, but can be removed at times of year when extreme storms are unlikely and recreational beach use is most important. In order to protect the local economy further, beaches should be repaired after major storms through beach nourishment (replacement of lost sand from external sources).

Thailand, formerly known as the Kingdom of Siam, lies in the heart of South East Asia. It can be divided into four distinct geographical regions the mountains and forests of the north the fertile land of the central plains the semi arid plateau of the north east and the tropical beaches and islands of the southern peninsula.