Nargis is the first major tropical cyclone to hit Myanmar since Category 3 Cyclone Mala hit on April 28, 2006. Mala hit a less populated area less prone to storm surge, and killed 22 people and ...

Cyclone Nargis' official death toll of 22,500 ranks the storm as the 19th deadliest in world history. Fourteen of the world's twenty deadliest cyclones have been Bay of Bengal storms.

It was Asia's answer to Hurricane Katrina. Packing winds upwards of 120 mph, Cyclone Nargis became one of Asia's deadliest storms by hitting land at one of the lowest points in Myanmar and setting ...

Cyclone Nargis (JTWC designation: 01B, also known as Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Nargis), was a strong tropical cyclone that caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar.

When Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta and pushed a wall of water 25 miles inland, it had all the makings of a massive disaster.

Myanmar needs at least $1 billion to help rebuild the lives of survivors of Cyclone Nargis, a U.N.-led report said Monday in the first comprehensive assessment of the damage.

A Burmese journalist spent May 3 and 4 in the Irrawaddy delta, inundated by the cyclone Donors voice fears that the Burmese government is not doing more to help its own people As the death toll in ...

Cyclone Nargis. May 10, 2008 / 4:01 PM EDT / Political Animal ... By contrast, the Burma cyclone really is a good example of the kind of thing we're likely to see more of in coming decades.

Tropical cyclone Nargis (category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, SSHS) made landfall on 2 May 2008, causing the worst natural disaster in Myanmar's recorded history. Official death ...

And, in the case of Cyclone Nargis, the New Light expressed a unique take on events. According to the official chronology of what happened after the storm, Burma’s prime minister, ...

Envisat captured Cyclone Nargis making its way across the Bay of Bengal just south of Myanmar on May 1, 2008. The cyclone hit the coastal region and ripped through the heart of Myanmar on Saturday ...