FARGO — The World Meteorological Organization, an agency of the United Nations which, among its many tasks, oversees the maintenance of weather measuring standards, has ranked the deadliest storms in ...

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 ...

Nov 12 is the 55th anniversary of the cyclone of 1970, which took the lives of at least 500,000 people of the coastal areas of Bangladesh. In October of that year, there had been a smaller cyclone ...

We’ve endured deadly hurricanes recently, including Helene, Ian, Maria and Katrina. But on Nov. 12, 1970, 55 years ago today, the Great Bhola Cyclone pushed into what was then East Pakistan (now ...