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|  | | Photo title: Haji Ali-Dargah mosque, Mumbai, India accessible only on foot at low tide | | Photo credit: Michael Rubenstein, National Geographic | | More photos from our National Geographic partner | | | | |
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| New Science study: Mangroves shielded communities against tsunami
by Lalley, Tom, World Wildlife Fund 27 October 2005 | |
| | A new study released today in the journal Science shows that areas buffered by coastal forests, like mangroves, were strikingly less damaged by the 2004 tsunami than areas without tree vegetation. This is believed to be the first peer-reviewed empirical and field-based study to document a clear link between coastal vegetation and protection from the tsunami. The study was undertaken by a large research team, comprising ecologists, a botanist, geographers, a forester, and a tsunami wave engineer, from seven nations. | |
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