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Missing mangrove buffer caused more cyclone damage

15.05.2008 The clearing of mangroves along Myanmar�s coast exposed communities to greater risks during cyclone Nargis, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Intact and dense coastal vegetation can reduce impacts of stormy waves and act as windbreaks in reducing devastation.

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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Myanmar] [Conservation] [Environment]

Image: Cyclone aftermath /Photo credit: BBC

Growing Ocean Dead Zones Leave Fish Gasping

Barracuda shoal, central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Credit: Tom Weilenmann

03.05.2008 "Dead zones" containing too little oxygen for fish to breathe are growing as global temperatures increase.
From: New Scientist

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Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Fisheries]

Image: Barracuda shoal, central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Credit: Tom Weilenmann

Coping at land�s end

01.05.2008 Environmental activist Sunita Narain offers a glimpse of what the future holds for coastal towns and villages as sea waters rise at a high rate. Climate change, rising salinity in waters and intense winds are eroding and depressing land at the same time in the Sunderbans, leaving people with no ways to survival.

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Related topics/regions: [India] [South Asia] [Climate change] [Environment] [Land]

Image: Sunita Narain