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Authorities ramp up efforts to protect sea turtles as deaths on India's shores continue to mount
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Dead sea turtles keep washing ashore on India's east coast and environmentalists and authorities are trying frantically to stop the number of 600 dead from getting even higher. The high number of turtle deaths in Chennai in southern India is most likely due...
Hundreds of dead sea turtles are washing ashore on India's coast
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Over 400 endangered sea turtles have washed ashore on India's east coast near the city of Chennai in the last two weeks in an event not witnessed in over two decades. Olive ridley turtles travel thousands of miles for ideal nesting conditions on India’s...
AP PHOTOS: The scars of a 9.1 earthquake and tsunami continue to haunt Indians for decades
NAGAPATTINAM, India (AP) — He was a young boy playing cricket with friends on a beach around 9:30 in the morning when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake violently shook the earth, and a tsunami struck from Indonesia to India two decades ago. Life changed for Yusuf Ansari, now a 32-year-old...
