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Tsunami damage. Sri Lanka.
Super Typhoon Haiyan: "It is like a tsunami has hit"
Tacloban, Philippines (CNN) — "It is like a tsunami has hit here." These were the first words from CNN"s Paula Hancocks, as she arrived in the storm-battered eastern city of Tacloban on board a military transport plane. Leading the first international …
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Tsunami-Blocking Mangroves Lure Carbon Investors
Fishermen clean their boats in Banda Aceh. A study in the wake of the 2004 tsunami off Aceh, which killed 220,000 people living near the Indian Ocean, showed that 30 coastal trees per 100 square meters may reduce the flow of a tsunami by 90 percent, …
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Himalayan tsunami: Climate change triggers deadly floods among the world"s …
The immediate cause: the bursting of a natural dam holding back a glacial lake that ultimately triggered the “Himalayan tsunami.” But the root cause was climate change, according to experts. As the weeks passed, scientists concluded that something more …
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Super Typhoon Haiyan: "It is like a tsunami has hit"
