Sentences with phrase «devastating cyclone»

50 years later, on 25th November 1839, an even more devastating cyclone struck, killing approximately 300,000 people, capsizing some 20,000 ships and destroying the port.

In mid-November, a devastating cyclone made landfall in Somalia's Puntland region - home to 2002 Goldman Prize winner Fatima Jibrell.

«This is a very devastating cyclone that has crossed Vanuatu,» «I term it as a monster.

I hope that today's forum is a sign that the road transport industry is starting to understand that it is your children's future at stake − it's your children who will get lung diseases and asthma if urban air pollution is not dramatically reduced; it's your children who will suffer the consequences of climate change that the scientists are trying to warn us of − more scorchers, more devastating cyclones, more Ross River Fever, more bushfires, degraded beaches, flooded houses, and the disappearance of some of Australia's unique wildlife.

Not exact matches

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will provide an aid package of C$ 150,000 to India for relief efforts in the aftermath of the cyclone that devastated India's eastern shores, Minister for International Cooperation, Maria Minna, announced yesterday.

Tropical cyclones can have devastating effects, with costly damages and loss of human lives.

Small island states, such as Grenada, say that target is not enough to stem the problem and could lead to the disappearance below the waves of some of these nations as well as devastating storm surges and tropical cyclones.

For example, when Typhoon Haiyan — one of the strongest cyclones on record — devastated the central Philippine city of Tacloban in 2013, survivors were stranded for weeks in hard - to - reach areas.

The cyclone that brought about the devastating winds that battered the UK in the great storm of October 1987 was exceptional in both its strength and path across the south of the country.

Tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal, however, have devastating consequences when they hit land due to a combination of factors such as a low - lying and flat coastal terrain, a shallow ocean floor, and a high population density of surrounding countries.

For example, coral reefs are critical features of coastal environment in the Tropics; they protect the shores from devastating impacts of cyclones and storms and are the sites where lots of open ocean fishes come to reproduce.

The cyclone devastated Corozal Town almost entirely.

In the past 16 months, two exceptionally intense tropical cyclones, Haiyan and Pam, have struck the western Pacific with devastating effect.

Seems to me the debate about AGHG global warming and increasing TC frequency / intensity / duration boils down to the fact that as sea surface temperatures, as well as deeper water temperatures rise, the wallop of any TC over warmer seas without mitigating circumstances like wind sheer and dry air off land masses entrained in the cyclone will likely be much more devastating.

By contrast most houses in north Queensland, Australia, are box - shaped and ground - level, and the houses devastated by the recent cyclone Yasi are expensive to rebuild.

There is very good evidence to support the conclusion that continued unmitigated climate change will lead to more intense tropical cyclones, and there is even some evidence (see the Nature paper above) that on average cyclones are already getting stronger and more devastating.

These suggest a strong possibility of higher risks of more persistent and devastating tropical cyclones in a warmer world.

There are three features of a tropical cyclone which are particularly devastating:

When a tropical cyclone strikes land, its effects can be devastating for those who live in (or near) its path.

And, it is known that the village of Coringa in India has been devastated at least twice by cyclones.

It is important to remember that tropical cyclones have always been devastating and destructive.

Cyclone Winston and Cyclone Pam which devastated Fiji and Vanuatu in recent years were among the strongest tropical cyclones to ever make landfall in the Southern Hemisphere.

For example, the devastating tropical cyclone Bhola in 1970 heightened the dissatisfaction with the ruling government and strengthened the Bangladesh separatist movement.

Our people are already suffering coastal devastating impacts and losses at the current 0.8 °C of warming — coastal erosion, coral bleaching, salty drinking water, flooding, and more intense cyclones and hurricanes.