The new study found that overfishing has been reduced in Canada's Newfoundland-Labrador area and in Iceland and southern Australia.

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But now,military officials say the area held by the Tamil Tigers has been reduced to just a few square kilometers of beachfront.

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To make up for the reduced area in some parts of the Amazon, the Brazilian environmental protection agency, Ibama, said that the government would be increasing preserved areas in other parts of the rainforest.

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Video footage posted online claims to show the aftermath, with people carrying away the wounded and a wide area reduced to rubble.

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He says it needs to be tackled and its area reduced.

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