<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b91fa921-4dfa-4cbb-acf7-f83942078ec1/58161625-C923-4E98-B1FB-DD8A279333C6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest" href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest" style="font-size: 11px;">www.abc.net.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><P class="first">The destruction of mangrove forests that served as a buffer from the sea is partly to blame for the death toll from Burma's cyclone, says the head of ASEAN.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abc.net.au/img/EA05F0E1-CDB5-4842-AAB2-9CFDF693601E" alt="Flooding after tropical storm Nargis" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest">Mangrove destruction, a powerful storm surge and low-lying land have been blamed for the effects of Burma's Cyclone Nargis. Seen here, a flooded village near the capital Rangoon</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abc.net.au/img/ED1FD66F-DE21-41E3-902E-EA7F47DFEC53" alt="Rainfall over the region on 3 May at 07:13 local time (00:43 UTC) after the storm hit land. Reds show areas that received intense rainfall, with yellow and green showing strong rain, and lighter rainfall in blue (NASA/Hal Pierce)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest">Rainfall over the region on 3 May at 07:13 local time (00:43 UTC) after the storm hit land. Reds show areas that received intense rainfall, with yellow and green showing strong rain, and lighter rainfall in blue</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abc.net.au/img/4BACB5A6-63AF-415A-836D-3D31EC52A644" alt="By the time this image was taken on 3 May at 10:55 local time (04:25 UTC), Cyclone Nargis had weakened to a tropical storm. The storm's spiral structure can still be seen but the eye of the storm is poorly defined. Clouds fill the space the between spiral arms, a characteristic of a less-powerful tropical storm (NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest">By the time this image was taken on 3 May at 10:55 local time (04:25 UTC), Cyclone Nargis had weakened to a tropical storm. The storm's spiral structure can still be seen but the eye of the storm is poorly defined. Clouds fill the space the between spiral arms, a characteristic of a less-powerful tropical storm </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest"> the mangrove forests</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest"> used to serve as buffer between</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest">between big waves and storms and the residential area</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/07/2237802.htm?site=science&topic=latest">"All those lands have been destroyed.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/58161625-C923-4E98-B1FB-DD8A279333C6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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