Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College calculated the likely distribution of the population of Burma ...

In May 2008, tropical cyclone Nargis bore down on southern Burma, claiming at least 140,000 victims and affecting 2.4 million others. Ignoring protests from foreign governments and aid agencies, Burma ...

In 2008, the IRC initiated an emergency response and early recovery efforts to aid communities affected by Cyclone Nargis. In the years since, the IRC has expanded its range of activities in Myanmar.

In May 2008, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar with a storm surge that devastated ... Roxy Mathew Koll, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune city, said cyclones ...

One of the deadliest tropical cyclones on record, Cyclone Nargis hit India, Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Laos, Yangon, and the Ayeyarwady Region in 2008. Packing winds upward of 120 ...

A powerful cyclone has hit the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm. Cyclone Mocha did not make landfall at the sprawling refugee ...

The Bay of Bengal, notes historian Sunil Amrith, is an "expanse of tropical water ... were displaced when Cyclone Nargis struck the Irrawaddy Delta in Burma (Myanmar) in May 2008.

NEW YORK, June 2 (Bernama-Xinhua): The United Nations (UN) has released US$3 million for emergency relief following tropical Cyclone ... Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and their host communities ...