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(AP) -- Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles. http://www.physorg.com/news177493998.html Space & Earth Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:30:01 EST news177493998 (AP) -- Hawaii officials are appealing to the state's tourism authority for funds to restore part of world-famous Waikiki Beach. http://www.physorg.com/news177394157.html Space & Earth Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:10:08 EST news177394157 While most people head to Myrtle Beach for vacation, a group of scientists have been hitting the famous South Carolina beach for years to figure out how to keep the sand from washing away. http://www.physorg.com/news175528348.html Space & Earth Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:53:18 EST news175528348 Rip currents -- powerful, channeled currents of water flowing away from the shore -- represent a danger to human life and property. Rip currents are responsible for more than one hundred deaths on our nation's beaches each year, according to the United States Lifesaving Association, and if rip currents persist long enough they can cause beach erosion. http://www.physorg.com/news174662820.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:00:03 EST news174662820 (AP) -- Dangerous staph bacteria have been found in sand and water for the first time at five public beaches along the coast of Washington, and scientists think the state is not the only one with this problem. http://www.physorg.com/news171986810.html Medicine & Health Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:07:45 EST news171986810 By washing your hands after digging in beach sand, you could greatly reduce your risk of ingesting bacteria that could make you sick. In new research, scientists have determined that, although beach sand is a potential source of bacteria and viruses, hand rinsing may effectively reduce exposure to microbes that cause gastrointestinal illnesses. http://www.physorg.com/news169202278.html Space & Earth Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:38:30 EST news169202278 New research by a team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) offers new insight into the San Andreas Fault as it extends beneath Southern California's Salton Sea. The team discovered a series of prominent faults beneath the sea, which transfer motion away from the San Andreas Fault as it disappears beneath the Salton Sea. The study provides new understanding of the intricate earthquake faults system beneath the sea and what role it may play in the earthquake cycle along the southern San Andreas Fault. http://www.physorg.com/news167923440.html Space & Earth Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:40:01 EST news167923440 South Florida has the second most populous Jewish community in America, after New York. Jewish people traditionally settled in South Florida for economic opportunities, for the climate, to join friends and family and to retire. Nonetheless, the once growing Jewish population of Broward County is now declining in numbers, according to a recent study conducted by University of Miami professor Dr. Ira M. Sheskin, from the department of Geography and Regional Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies. http://www.physorg.com/news155925817.html Other Sciences Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:44:11 EST news155925817 (PhysOrg.com) -- Tomorrow, beach-goers will get a glimpse of what our coastlines may look like in 50 years, when New South Wales and South East Queensland experience the highest daytime ‘king tides` forecast for 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news150998525.html Space & Earth Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:02:05 EST news150998525 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dubai's out this world's Palazzo Versace located in the Culture Village has hired Hyder Consulting to use their innovative engineering talents to cool off the hotel/condominium resort's sizzling hot sandy beaches. Hyder Consulting has a long-term presence in the Middle East and offers engineering services, including environmentally sustainable buildings, infrastructure solutions, mechanical and electrical expertise. According to Soheil Abedian, president of Palazzo Versace, "We will suck the heat out of the sand to keep it cool enough to lie on." Palazzo Versace will be completed sometime in late 2009 to 2010. http://www.physorg.com/news148584299.html Technology Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:24:59 EST news148584299 Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice free. http://www.physorg.com/news143738391.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:19:51 EST news143738391 As an eleven year old boy in 1985, Donald Wylie tossed a bottle into the Orkney sea, with a message asking its finder to track him down. Almost a quarter of a century later, Donald will be reunited with the bottle which eventually washed up hundreds of miles away on the West Sands in St Andrews http://www.physorg.com/news138546698.html Other Sciences Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:11:38 EST news138546698 Long-range forecasts of beach bacterial contamination are inching closer to reality because of a new water quality prediction method scheduled for publication in the July 15 issue of the ACS' Environmental Science & Technology. http://www.physorg.com/news134053458.html Space & Earth Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:04:18 EST news134053458