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Irrawaddy Delta, Burma

The clearing of the natural mangrove forests has left low-lying cropland and villages exposed to the sea.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Irrawaddy Delta, Burma.

NASA image by Robert Simmon, based on Landsat-7 data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.

Published May 22, 2008
Data acquired March 3, 2000