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Did Deforestation make Burma's Cyclone worse?

Could Burma's missing mangrove forests have saved lives in the recent cyclone?

Was the death and devastation caused by the cyclone that hit Burma made worse by the destruction of the natural environment, most importantly mangrove forests? Sequencing the duckbilled platypus genome. Intermetallic materials made in space could replace heavy metallic alloys. How the once-green Sahara turned into a desert slowly over thousands of years. Have we reached limit of computer processing power required to predict climate?

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26 minutes

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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