The United States has lost more than three and a half million jobs since the recession began more than a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Indonesia is said to have lost almost half its mangroves forests within the past thirty years.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

One major lender lost more than a billion and a half dollars in the second quarter.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

But about half of those jobs have been lost in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

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

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Africa lost almost three and a half million hectares.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

"We are fighting a war a half a century later that we lost for similar reasons a half a century earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

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