Climate change is intertwined with issues of land, food, work, devastation and human flourishing.
The devastation on land was terrible, but the disaster also left a mark on the ocean that generated the tsunami: tens of thousands of tons of debris, including entire houses, cars and boats, were swept out to sea that day.
Despite lingering uncertainties about the scale and nature of the threat, her book suggests a clear path for western governments: tighten borders and make warring intelligence agencies work together against an adversary which, if not quite ten feet tall, was skilled enough to land blows of incalculable devastation.
For 18 months the Allies fought the Germans up the peninsula, wreaking untold devastation throughout the land.
The late Diana, princess of Wales, focused world attention on the human devastation caused by land mines.
Saddam Hussein, while in power, consorted with terrorists of just about every stripe on this planet, whose ultimate goals were to bring destruction and devastation to our land.
Among all the citizens of this overpopulated, chronically mismanaged desert country, they also have the hardest work ahead: They are inheriting limited land and water resources, environmental devastation born of unregulated development and inadequate housing owed to decades of clumsy or corrupt policies.
After the incident, one protester said, "We are witnessing the devastation of this land.
The US attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still very fresh in everyone's minds, and transposing the images of horror and devastation from the Land of the Rising Sun to Sunderland can't have been too difficult.
One year after an earthquake wreaked havoc in the state, a deluge has caused landslides, landing yet another blow of devastation.
