Wednesday marks the 35th anniversary of the devastating 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh. Known officially as Cyclone 02B, or colloquially as "Gorky" or "Marian", the storm is recognised as one of the ...
I have never witnessed before, or since, anything like the scale of destruction I saw from a helicopter flying along Bangladesh’s coastline in May 1991, some days after one of the most powerful ...
The Atlantic and Caribbean hurricane season has just begun, with the world worried about the prospect of providing humanitarian relief in the context of a pandemic and lockdowns. But Bangladesh ...
Around midnight on April 30, 1991, 34 years ago today, a tropical cyclone became one of the world's deadliest storms. The Category 4 cyclone roared ashore near Chittagong, now known officially as ...