My wife is holidaying in Phuket, staying at the Kabina Beach Hotel (now destroyed) when the first wave hit.
The route traverses what used to be abundant wetlands, including spots such as the Queens Bridge, which crosses a now-destroyed waterfall.
Like a fossil hinting at a long-gone animal, a black hole is offering clues about a now-destroyed galaxy that may once have existed around it.
Coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific region -- where 75 percent of the world's reefs live -- are now being destroyed at a rate of 1 percent a year.
Although the government says all the fish have now been destroyed, environmentalists believe it demonstrates that much of the work on genetic modification is taking place in secret.
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The prime minister made a public pledge to rebuild every house in Nahr el-Bared, now almost totally destroyed by army shelling.
The six embryos they made together will now probably be destroyed.
For more than seven weeks now since Katrina destroyed many of their homes, businesses and entire neighborhoods, the people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast have been surrounded by the debris of what was.
Ms True, jobless, with her reputation destroyed, now cultivates her Greek garden.
This beautiful little cove that we had is now full of mud and muck and boats, and docks, that are now in the middle of the sludge, instead of where they should be, and actually columns from our neighbor's house that has pretty much been destroyed is now in our backyard.
He told Glasgow that the prosecutor could now celebrate because he had destroyed Peterson's life.
Their home was destroyed, and they now live in a Winnebago parked on the lot.
Now, they say the tapes were destroyed to protect the interrogators from reprisal.
More than 7, 000 hectares (17, 000 acres) of pine plantation has been destroyed and the blaze is now threatening the community of Drik Drik.
The ophthalmologist and his family were still living in tents, although they did, thanks to extension cords running from their half-destroyed house, have electricity now.
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He says Tropical Storm Hanna destroyed his house, and now he'll stay here in the church until he can get help from the government or someone to rebuild.
Kimayev said little can be done now to recreate fragile ecosystems that have been destroyed.
There are "lots and lots of folks whose homes are no longer habitable -- roofs off, in some cases totally destroyed, and these people are now phoning in and asking to be rescued, " Van Heerden said.
We probably would've destroyed the phone with a hammer or a direct impact with a wall by now, so our respect goes out to those of you who are still waiting and haven't destroyed anything of value.
But I am now able to look back and see how they destroyed my ability to function.
Several villages and swathes of forest have been destroyed, but officials say they are now on top of the situation.
Now this linkage between disability and insurance will be destroyed.
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Mr Wood is now contemplating the certainty that his entire flock will be destroyed as the Irish government sets out on what agriculture minister Joe Walsh called an 'aggressive cull' in the Cooley peninsula area.
Now, they were on foot, heading over to that destroyed compound, to assess the damage and gather intelligence.
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Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the president's brother and defence secretary, says the fighting will go on until the rebels, now estimated at just a few hundred seasoned fighters, have been destroyed.
The newly-emerged Asian middle classes have now seen much of their wealth buried under mountains of bad debt or else destroyed as stockmarkets have crashed, currencies have lost value and property bubbles have burst.
But it was largely destroyed in 1538 during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and is now a ruin.
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