Tsunami May Have Damaged Coral Reefs
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The tsunami that took a heavy toll in human life also battered Indian Ocean coral reefs that already were in distress from pollution and global warming, possibly causing damage that will require decades to recover, experts say.
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The BBC's correspondents report on the devastation caused by Sunday's tsunamis across the Indian Ocean.
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Diarrhea, malaria, dengue fever, and even meningitis and flu may be waiting to cause a second wave of misery across Indian Ocean coastal areas devastated by Sunday's tsunami, experts said on Thursday.
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The undersea earthquake that caused a tsunami in the Indian Ocean last month also permanently changed landscapes up to 930 miles away from the epicenter off the coast of Indonesia, Dutch researchers said Wednesday.
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By Celia Hall, Medical Editor and Roger Highfield, Science Editor. Disease could kill as many along south Asia&#39;s stricken coasts as have been killed in the disaster unless clean water and medical help reaches
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The tsunami split coral reefs in India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands chain, burying them under sand deposits and threatening the entire marine habitat in the area, researchers said Wednesday.
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Barriers such as coastal mangrove forests and coral reefs saved lives by deflecting Asia's tsunami and governments should protect such natural bulwarks against the wrath of the sea, a leading environmental group said on Tuesday.
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LONDON, Friday  - Survivors of the Asian tsunami,  in which nearly 300,000 people were killed or are still  missing, could be at risk of a deadly fungal infection,  Australian researchers said Friday.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Robert Siegel talks with Geeta Pandey of the BBC about the devastation caused by the tsunami in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Millions of people may have survived  the deadliest tsunami in living memory, but many are so deeply  traumatized it will take years for them to heal, if ever,  medical experts said Monday.
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Researchers are hoping to develop a network of ocean-floor and mobile sensors that would help detect tsunamis in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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The direction of plate movements that sparked quakes off Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra spared the coast from damaging tsunamis, while geology and awareness may have reduced the damage, an expert said Thursday.
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India plans to initiate an assessment of the damage caused by the tsunami to the pristine coral reefs of the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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How a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered sea surges and the deaths of thousands of people.
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The tsunami brings fears that some Maldives islands may be evacuated for good, reports the BBC's Barnaby Phillips.
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While some 150,000 people were killed by last month's tsunami, few animals seem to have been caught off guard. Do animals have a sixth sense about such danger?
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Across nations and religions there has been a search for explanations of why the tsunami killed some and not others.