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The US issued a 'Bangladesh Travel Advisory' this week, urging citizens to avoid the Chittagong Hill Tracts region due to ...
The US has issued a Level 4 'Do Not Travel' advisory for Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts due to high risks of violence, ...
Bangladesh has been spared the worst-case scenario of overlapping disasters. But if heavy monsoon rains saturate the soil and a cyclone strikes soon after, the combined impact could be devastating. Co ...
For the highly populated coastal country of Bangladesh, once-in-a-century storm tides could strike every 10 years -- or more often -- by the end of the century, scientists report.
The Bureau of Meteorology expects a tropical low in waters off Western Australia's north coast to form into a cyclone on Sunday. Residents and businesses in the East Kimberley region have started ...
Storm tides are caused when cyclones push seawater inland, especially when they coincide with high tides. These floods can be catastrophic in deltaic regions like Bangladesh, which is already ...
The study also finds that Bangladesh will likely experience tropical cyclones that overlap with the months-long monsoon season. Until now, cyclones and the monsoon have occurred at separate times ...
According to the Bureau of Meteorology’s forecast track map issued at 9:02am AWST on Friday, the low is expected to become a tropical cyclone on Saturday and continue to strengthen on Sunday and early ...
A late-season tropical cyclone could form near northern Australia next week, which would make this Australia’s most active cyclone season in six years. The influence of an equatorial Rossby wave ...
Ten years ago today, Bangladesh launched its Mental Health First Aid program. One focus was on reducing disaster impacts, further contributing to Bangladesh’s internationally renowned successes ...
Bangladesh already loses 1 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually due to floods, cyclones ... can’t even be imagined on today’s map.” ...