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Thousands of Fiji villagers fled to shelters as a tropical cyclone battered the South Pacific nation, causing flooding, damaging homes and power lines, and killing three people, officials said Tuesday.
Hundreds of thousands of people flooded out of their homes by deadly Cyclone Aila crowded government shelters in eastern India and Bangladesh on Friday, and officials said the risk of disease outbreaks was growing.
The monsoons are due any day now, and for the hundreds of villagers with fresh memories of last year's deadly Cyclone Nargis, an emergency shelter that opened Saturday was yet another reminder that their huts — and their lives — remain fragile.
Hundreds of thousands of people are still without decent jobs and housing a year after Cyclone Nargis ripped through Myanmar, leaving many vulnerable to the coming monsoon rains and mired in a life of poverty, humanitarian groups said Thursday.
Key facts about Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar one year ago:
The boat's owner points to a palm-covered bend in the river where dozens of bamboo huts perched on spindly stilts — until Cyclone Nargis devastated this remote region a year ago.
Myanmar lifted an alert Saturday after Cyclone Bijli veered away from the western coast of the country, which was battered almost a year ago by deadly Cyclone Nargis.
The outer edge of Cyclone Bijli began lashing southern Bangladesh on Friday night, officials said, as the government ordered the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from the country's low-lying coast. Neighboring Myanmar was also bracing for the storm.
A powerful cyclone that hit the west coast of Madagascar killed three people and left nearly 3,000 homeless, officials said Thursday.
Six months after Cyclone Nargis smashed into Myanmar's coastline, killing tens of thousands of people, aid groups say once-lagging relief efforts have picked up pace but the task of rebuilding and recovery is far from finished.
A rare bird's-eye look at Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta shows the devastation still left from Cyclone Nargis — broken levies, flooded farm roads, the shattered remains of bamboo huts and trees strewn like matchsticks along the coast.
Survivors of Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis face a "second emergency" unless relief efforts receive an influx of $1 billion in international aid over the next three years, according to the first full assessment of the disaster released Monday.
Myanmar is appealing for more foreign aid to help victims of Cyclone Nargis.
Myanmar's military regime has approved visas for more than 1,500 international aid workers to help victims of Cyclone Nargis, with half of them involved in relief operations in storm-hit regions, the state-media said Tuesday.
Dire warnings that cyclone survivors in Myanmar might fall prey to disease and starvation failed to take into account the survival instincts of those affected, aid agencies and disaster experts say.
Myanmar said Tuesday that 84,500 people perished in last month's cyclone, up from the last official announcement that 77,700 had died in the devastating storm.
Myint Hlaing's family bathes and draws cooking water from an irrigation ditch fouled by human waste and a rotting cow carcass. His 10-year-old daughter suffers from diarrhea, despite drinking bottled water donated by aid groups.
Myanmar's military junta will set up orphanages for the hundreds of children whose parents died in the recent cyclone, state media reported Wednesday.
France criticized Myanmar's military junta on Friday for refusing to allow a French Navy ship with 1,500 tons of aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis to deliver food and medicine with small boats and helicopters.
"I can't talk now, I think I'm in danger," a reporter in Myanmar whispered into the phone. Click.
Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.
The United Nations wants to send its top emergency relief coordinator to Myanmar — if he can get a visa from the ruling military junta.
The Myanmar junta's refusal to let in foreign aid workers has not stopped donors — from billionaire Bill Gates to a small British travel company — from trying to help.
Preventing a disease disaster in Myanmar is now a "race against time," as many impoverished victims still await help a week after the brutal cyclone, experts warned Saturday.
Ships and cargo planes carried relief supplies to Myanmar on Wednesday as aid groups distributed food and other supplies to people left homeless by a deadly cyclone.
The morning after was like waking up from Katrina all over again. Most structures were reduced to pieces in the aftermath of the Category 4 hurricane, which gave only three days warning as to its intended path.
Aid organisations praise TNT's humanitarian help | Moving the WorldAID ORGANISATIONS PRAISE TNT'S HUMANITARIAN HELP Sunday, 12 Jul 2009 Written by Tanja Gauldie When the cyclone Aila struck more than 42 small islands in the Ganges delta area on 25th May, the West Bengal government and the military forces rushed to help.
�My name is Hunger, my daughter is Thirst� « Work Foliocyclone aila
The devastation caused by Cyclone Aila is enormous. It however, did not get enough media attention to the distress and agony of the affected people. We are in the region and have begun relief work. However, more is needed. People have lost every thing and they need: 1. Food, 2.
Millions Displaced by Cyclone That Hit in India, Bangladesh on Monday, May 25"Cyclone Aila hit parts of coastal Bangladesh and eastern India on Monday," and "has displaced millions of people."
NWS Confirms Tornado Touched Down In Vermont A tornado with winds reaching 100 mph ripped an apartment house's roof off, snapped large trees and destroyed a barn in Washington on Saturday.The tornado touched down at about 5 p.m., National Weather Service officials concluded after a day-long investigation.
NASA Study Finds 'Pre-Existing Condition' Fueled Killer Cyclone"This abnormally thick, warm water layer, which formed about a month earlier, kept deeper, colder waters from being drawn to the surface, increasing the energy available to fuel Nargis' growth by 300 percent," said Lin.
Weather-Related Disasters Reach New HighIn 2007, there were 874 weather-related disasters worldwide, a 13-percent increase over 2006 and the highest number since the systematic recording of natural perils began in 1974.1 Weather-related disasters around the world have been on the rise for decades (see Figure 1): on ave …
The Scot who gave hope and help to thousandsWhen the cyclone struck Burma, Mr Strachan, an Edinburgh-based businessman immediately contacted Merlin as well as the Save the Children charity.
Shelterbox: A Home for 10 people ... in a portable boxA huge cyclone struck Myanmar in May 2008.
In Myanmar, surprising recoveryResourceful villagers and private aid averted starvation and rise of disease.
Burmese Endure in Spite of Junta, Aid Workers Say - NYTimes.comdoctors and aid workers returning from remote areas of the delta are offering a less pessimistic picture of the human cost of the delay in reaching survivors. They say they have seen no signs of starvation or widespread outbreaks of disease.
IsraAID Continues to Supply Relief in Myanmar"The presence of Israeli relief teams is still being felt in Burma, as IsraAID recently dispatched a third team of medical and relief professionals to offer aid to the victims of the May 3 cyclone.
Aust to take in 3,000 Burmese cyclone victimsAustralia has rejected a special quota for Burmese asylum seekers, but will take almost 3,000 cyclone victims this year as part of the Government's humanitarian program.
Connecting the Dots; A Cyclone, A Quake, Insanity Plague and A Bloody HandshakeAn amazing collection of data with little editorial spice to make for a very nutritious mental meal.
Foreign Aid Workers Enter Myanmar's Cyclone-Hit Delta - WSJ.comYANGON, Myanmar -- International aid workers have finally begun entering Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta area after being blocked for more than three weeks by the country's military junta, officials said Tuesday.
Open up if you want more cyclone aid, Myanmar toldMyanmar was promised nearly $50 million in cyclone aid on Sunday, but some Western donor countries said their cash was contingent on the junta keeping its word on letting in foreign aid workers and assessment teams.
Better Late Than Never: Burma "to let in all aid workers"Burma's top leader has agreed to let all foreign aid workers into the country for relief work in cyclone-hit areas, UN head Ban Ki-moon has said. After talks in Burma's remote capital, Naypyidaw, with Gen Than Shwe, Mr Ban said the decision was a breakthrough.
Western aid exclusion brings more shame on Burma junta Most disaster specialists still banned from the key area. So, largely, are the United States and France with ships loaded with heavy-lift helicopters, food, water, medicine, field hospitals and other supplies in nearby waters.
World Vision Australia CEO returns from Burma - 750,000 starving Interview with World Vision Australia head Rev. Tim Costello just returned from Burma. Official toll from the disaster 77,738 dead and 55,917 missing; 750,000 people starving; 1 million homeless; yet junta STILL limits aid.
Buddhists Provide Myanmar AidKUNTHECHAUNG, Myanmar (Reuters) - With a loudhailer in one hand and a clipboard in the other, the bespectacled Buddhist monk calls out names from a long list of villages devastated by Cyclone Nargis.
Myanmar's Junta Gets a Pass from Powerful NeighborsMany wealthy Asian countries are more concerned with appeasing Myanmar's junta than helping victims of the cyclone.
As a citizen of an EU country I'm negatively touched how the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) handles the Myanmar cyclone disaster.
Myanmar Creating Tragedy for Itself, WHY?The situation in Myanmar has become criminal in regards to the ruling junta there refusing any big time aide. A spokeswoman for Save the Children UK reports that many children left homeless and without support may be dying in great numbers in coming days.
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