I have never witnessed before, or since, anything like the scale of destruction I saw from a helicopter flying along Bangladesh’s coastline in May 1991, some days after one of the most powerful ...

FARGO — The World Meteorological Organization, an agency of the United Nations which, among its many tasks, oversees the maintenance of weather measuring standards, has ranked the deadliest storms in ...

The Great Bhola cyclone wasn't particularly strong by historical standards — it may not have even been the strongest gale to strike the Indian Ocean in 1970 — but its fateful timing and unlucky course ...

On the night that Cyclone Bhola made landfall in November 1970, there was a torrential downpour in Dhaka. Watching from a friend’s veranda, Alfred Sommer, a young epidemiologist at the CRL, recalled ...

Nov 12 is the 55th anniversary of the cyclone of 1970, which took the lives of at least 500,000 people of the coastal areas of Bangladesh. In October of that year, there had been a smaller cyclone ...

Neither the storm nor the following war are well known events in America, which tends to look to itself more than the rest of the world, often to its own detriment. But it’s also not an uncommon gap ...

Fifty years ago, Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan amid devastating climate disaster. The year before, in 1970, the Bhola cyclone had killed up to half a million people. The human toll of the ...

We’ve endured deadly hurricanes recently, including Helene, Ian, Maria and Katrina. But on Nov. 12, 1970, 55 years ago today, the Great Bhola Cyclone pushed into what was then East Pakistan (now ...