December 29, 2009

Streets damaged through Aila
Md. Shahidul Islam
Bangladesh: The 15th November, 2007 which shocks me the core of my beings? The whole southern part of the country was devastated due to cyclone SIDR. Initially we could not understand what was really happened. But as the time was passing we were becoming paralyzed to hear some most terrible news from our southern regions. Read more...
Tags: Aila, Bangladesh, Climate Change. SIDR, Cyclone, disasterClimate Change
October 6, 2008
At least one cyclone may form off one or two depressions in the Bay of Bengal this month, the Met office said in its long-range forecast for October.
The forecast, issued after a meeting of experts from different disciplines at the met office, said the monsoon would Read more...
Tags: Bangladesh, Bay of Bengal, Cyclone, IndiaClimate Change
May 6, 2008
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina laid waste to parts of the US Gulf Coast. Last year, the Arabian Peninsula was hit by a super-cyclone, Gonu. Now, an unusual early-season storm, Nargis, has slammed into Myanmar, brutally changing gear from a Category One to a Category Four cyclone just before it made landfall.
Are these events — massively costly in lives and treasure — all linked? Could they be part of an alarming trend of weird, more powerful storms stoked by global warming? That’s a question that Read more...
Tags: Birma, Climate Change, Cyclone, Hurricane Katrina, Myanmar, NargisClimate Change
December 1, 2007

From Potuakhali: Villagers call him “miracle boy”. His name is Obaidul (7). His job was to cut fish and make packets with his mother. During the time of “Cyclone Sidr” hited in Bangladesh he was in an island named Kolagacia (situated in southern Bangladesh). The tidal waves of cyclone drifted him about 20 kilometers. His mother Halima begum (30) saved him during the time of drifting and died immediately after putting him in a safe Read more...
Tags: Bangladesh, Cyclone, SidrClimate Change