cyclones

AFP/APP Vietnam: Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall Thursday in Vietnam's already storm-battered central belt, where thousands have been evacuated from areas in the path of one of the world’s deadliest cyclones this year. Kalmaegi cut a…

AFP/APP Geneva: Climate change is spurring increasingly erratic and extreme swings between deluge and drought globally, with cascading repercussions for societies, the United Nations warned on Thursday. The UN’s World Meteorological…

Imama Riaz Rawalpindi: As the Arabian Sea brews with a severe low-pressure system, the Sindh coast braces for a potential storm that could evolve into a cyclone. Dubbed “Asna,” meaning the brightest, this system threatens to bring…

Shazia Mehboob  Islamabad: Pakistan is increasingly at the forefront of nations grappling with the severe impacts of climate change. The country's dependence on monsoon rains and the Indus Basin glaciers renders it highly vulnerable to…

AFP/APP Bangladesh: At least 800,000 Bangladeshis fled their coastal villages to seek refuge in concrete storm shelters further inland, as the nation braced for the impact of an approaching cyclone, according to top government disaster…

Neelam Lashari Islamabad: A cyclone is a natural and catastrophic phenomenon. It always left people scared because of its aftermath. A cyclone is a large air mass that rotates around a powerful centre of low atmospheric pressure. It…