Within minutes, hundreds lay dead or dying.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

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

The country aims to reduce the ratio of infants dying before their first birthday to 50 per 1,000 live births or five percent.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

For example,one question they wanted to answer was whether the loss of quality life years was due to people dying sooner - mortality - or living in poor health - morbidity.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"It is like quite a monumental event, like Elvis dying or JFK being shot or something and yeah, just completely stunned really, so I cannot really imagine a bigger kind of thing happening in my lifetime,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.26