A storm surge or tide is when coastal waters rise above high tide levels because of a cyclone, stirring up 'tsunami-like waves' that travel inland. Richard Berman-Hardman from Cairns Skyrail ...

He points to a two-storied Multipurpose Cyclone Shelter at one side of the village which has been envisioned to give shelter to the villagers at a time of emergency like tsunami. “The UNESCO ...

Some 250,000 were killed across several countries in the 2004 tsunami. An estimated 140,000 lives were lost in the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. In Myanmar, 120,000 perished when Cyclone Nargis hit in ...

Cyclone Fengal's impact continues with torrential rains forcing school closures in Puducherry and parts of Tamil Nadu. We ...

With Cyclone Fengal nearing Tamil Nadu, Velachery residents in Chennai have parked vehicles on flyovers, fearing floods in ...

There are some disasters, losses of human life on a grand scale, that are just imprinted in our collective memory. Cyclone ...

The National Weather Service extended a Wind Advisory for much of the Puget Sound region that expired Friday evening. A Wind ...

A UNICEF Team led by the Chief of Field Office, William Hanlon, alongwith representatives from Reliance Foundation, Kerala, ...

International team led by UNICEF visited Bhadrak district of Odisha which included participants from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka ...