Two weeks after Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka, the actual environmental cost of the disaster remains largely unknown, as ...
Torrential downpours and high winds struck large parts of the island nation as Cyclone Ditwah churned northwest toward India.
Tropical Cyclone John reached Category 5 status offshore, but it lost some intensity and also struck a sparsely populated area of Australia. Here's what happened in 1999.
Cyclone Ditwah killed 132 people across Sri Lanka, with another 176 missing, according to the Disaster Management Centre, as torrential rains caused the country’s worst flooding in over two decades.
Meteorologists remain somewhat divided over the Dec. 2 storm's forecast, and whether it could wind up qualifying as a bomb cyclone.
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Sumatra’s 'natural' disaster wasn’t natural: How deforestation turned a rare cyclone catastrophic
By Rhett Ayers Butler Indonesia’s government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered ...
Sri Lanka is trying to steady its tourism sector after Cyclone Ditwah tore through the island. The country said it's open for ...
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's fragile economic recovery will be delayed as Cyclone Ditwah's ...
Mujib Mashal, our South Asia bureau chief, takes us to Kandy in Sri Lanka, which suffered the worst of the devastation from ...
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Bogawantalawa experiences ground frost following Cyclone Ditwah
Sri Lanka, Dec. 15 -- Following Cyclone Ditwah, ground frost was reported in the Bogawantalawa area during the early morning hours of today (15), as extremely cold weather continues across the western ...
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Death and devastation: Why a rare equatorial cyclone and other storms have hit southern Asia so hard
More than 900 people are dead, thousands more missing and millions affected by a band of cyclones and extreme monsoonal ...
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