The Dead Sea lost thirty-three percent of its surface area during the last half-century.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

"Everyone is half-dead. It does not matter if you shell them because you are shelling a dead body."

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Half our coral reefs are dead or dying. We've lost 90 percent of deep blue water,big game fish: the halibut,the tuna and the marlin that we all loved to eat.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04