Joe Scott on MSN

Half a million people died in one night – then the cover-up began

In 1970, the Bhola Cyclone struck East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, and killed hundreds of thousands of people in a single night. But the storm was only the beginning. Confusing warnings, delayed relief, ...
DawnOpinion

Weaponising climate

The first collected resources in the name of disaster relief, later rebranded as climate resilience as floods became more ...
The Weather Channel

On Today's Date: The World’s Deadliest Tropical Cyclone

Left: Track of the Nov. 1970 Bhola Cyclone. Right: Aerial view of Patuakhali, East Pakistan, now known as Bangladesh, after the Bhola Cyclone of November 1970. (NOAA; Express Newspapers/Getty Images) ...
inforum

John Wheeler: Cyclone Bhola in Bangladesh in 1970 was the world's deadliest storm

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 ...
AOL

On Today's Date: The Deadliest Tropical Cyclone On Record

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 ...