Cyclones
Nov 7 2007, Pratyush

India has planned to set up a center for climate change research to make necessary data available for modeling and monitoring the trends of climate change in the country. P. S. Goel, secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences announced about the...

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In this July 24, 2008 file photo, Cyclone Nargis victims rebuild their house made of light materials donated mostly from private donors and foreign agencies in an area outside of Yangon, Muanmar. According to a recent assessment by the U.N., Myanmar...