Cyclone Sidr struck south east Bangladesh turning millions of lives upside down and killing thousands. Many survivors were left struggling for basic necessities such as tents, rice, drinking water ...

"The project will be a prototype for a larger undertaking that can be carried out by future generations of GIS users." The project took on a renewed sense of urgency in November, when Cyclone Sidr ...

Our day started with a one hour flight by sea plane to the Khulna division of Bangladesh. It was great to go somewhere that can normally ... and the majority of people rely on rainwater harvesting for ...

told UNB that the damage caused by May 26 Remal surpassed that of previous cyclones Aila and Sidr, with tidal surges reaching up to 20 feet height. During the cyclone, over 100 freshwater ponds ...

Moreover, the typhoons and monsoons that routinely pummel Bangladesh are intensifying because of climate change. In 2007 a category 4 cyclone, named Sidr, killed 3,500 and displaced over two million ...

Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest in Bangladesh's southwestern part, suffered another blow by cyclone Aila on Monday before it could fully recover from the hit of cyclone Sidr in ...

A powerful cyclone has hit the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm. Cyclone Mocha did not make landfall at the sprawling refugee ...

The Myanmar Red Cross Society said it was “preparing for a major emergency response.” Cyclone Mocha is the most powerful storm to hit Bangladesh since Cyclone Sidr, Azizur Rahman, head of Bangladesh’s ...

It wasn’t just any November night, and Bonna isn’t just any name. People in southern Bangladesh use ‘bonna’ to describe floods and cyclones. This little girl was given the name because she was born ...

A fierce cyclone hits Bangladesh about every three years. In 1991 Cyclone Marian killed 140,000. In 2007 Cyclone Sidr flattened 565,000 homes, but a warning system and fortified shelters helped ...