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...At night there’s just the hum of insects and a sky that makes it feel as if I’m swimming in an ocean of stars....
...The window nearest my table frames a verdant world of pasture and potato fields with, at the back of the picture, a jagged ridge of cordillera glittering silver-white with permanent snows....
...There lies the rub: looking back at millennia, at millions of years of history, can provide important perspectives on how the past has shaped the modern world....
...Situated on the Escaleras mountain ridge, it enjoys panoramic views of the surrounding cloud forest, the Pacific Ocean and Uvita’s famous Whale’s Tail beach....
...My husband loves food; he liked the idea of a coastal market town for seafood....
...But at Jedey a police roadblock halts us from getting any closer to the view we seek. At night, the lava chasers are even more in evidence....
...We are doing that at the national level, but not the international level. Now, that could cost billions, but it could be financed from the revenue the global community can get from the open oceans....
...NB: Google Maps might suggest an inland route at the beginning but you will be able to cycle on coastal roads, which are easier.)...
...More than 1,000km west of Brazil’s big coastal states — closer, as the crow flies, to the Pacific Ocean than to Rio de Janeiro — the 35-year-old is riding a boom that has garnered little attention among...
...It’s even further north than the fashionable newish vineyards of Sonoma Coast, just one coastal ridge away....
...We spent the night at the Tractor Shed — a cluster of cosy, turf-covered huts overlooking an expanse of rich coastal grassland known as machair....
...Mining can be legal in a country’s coastal waters, but is not currently in international areas....
...A converted Dutch barge, with 1,413 sq ft of space, is on sale through River Homes for £1.38m plus £5,000 a year for “an enviably secure”, 123-year mooring at Plantation Wharf, Battersea....
...In Cambodia’s Chinese business community, “Big Brother Fu” is a name to be reckoned with....
...Dixon says: “Coral reefs are an excellent ecosystem through which to look at the impact of long-term changes such as climate change and acidification of seawater on the health of the oceans.”...
...This highland community was discovered by outsiders only in the 1930s, when Australian gold-prospectors arrived, and the drive from the airstrip to the lodge at Rondon Ridge is up a rough track past one...
...The military helicopter takes off at dawn. A soldier in camouflage gear sits at its open door, directing a machine gun at the tropical scene below....
...In River Ridge Estate, Australind, Geldert has one-acre riverfront bushland building plots on offer for $300,000....
...Official death toll 131,934, missing 37,066 Sri Lanka The Indian Ocean island nation will receive $3bn in foreign aid....
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