Article: The southern section of the Colombo--Matara line, severely damaged by the Indian Ocean tsunami on December 26, was reopened on February 21.(Sri Lanka)

Article: Experts fear coral reefs may have been severely ...
AP Worldstream;  January 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... in human life also battered Indian Ocean coral reefs that already were ... formations throughout the Indian Ocean were severely damaged by El Nino warming in 1997 ... hundreds of miles of beach in Indian Ocean would be victimized by a ...

Article: The fate of coral reefs in the Andaman Sea, eastern Indian ...
The Geographical Journal;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Andaman Sea region in the eastern Indian Ocean as far as they are known at present ... coral cover affected) and 23 were severely damaged (>50% coral cover affected ... only 13% of all sites studied were severely damaged, with 60% of sites showing little ...

Article: The Indian Ocean tsunami: socio-economic impacts in ...
The Geographical Journal;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... tsunami, generated by a powerful submarine earthquake in the Indian Ocean, swept ashore. Officially, there were 5395 confirmed ... other extra-local impacts that are not apparent on the severely damaged coasts. Many of the sites affected by the tsunami in Thailand ...

Article: Support for libraries in tsunami aftermath.(Indian ...
Information Today;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... led a team of staff in a survey of damage in the province of Aceh. They found the Aceh Provincial Library in Banda Aceh severely damaged, with the first floor wiped out by floods, the second floor ransacked by looters, and the mobile library units either ...

Article: Tsunami May Have Damaged Coral Reefs
AP Online;  January 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... in human life also battered Indian Ocean coral reefs that already were ... formations throughout the Indian Ocean were severely damaged by El Nino warming in 1997 ... hundreds of miles of beach in Indian Ocean would be victimized by a ...

Article: Waves may have wrecked world's most beautiful coral
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 7, 2005 ;     409 words ... ... in human life also battered Indian Ocean coral reefs that already were ... formations throughout the Indian Ocean were severely damaged by El Nino warming in 1997 ... hundreds of miles of beach in the Indian Ocean would be victimized by a ...

Article: Life's a bleach, and then you die.(coral bleaching)(Brief ...
The Economist (US);  November 4, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... reefs, in a swathe stretching from Brazil to the Indian Ocean, were severely damaged by what is known as "coral bleaching". One ... events which stopped wind and currents in the Indian Ocean--causing the waters to fall into a dead calm ...