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Tropical Storm Kyle forms near New Jersey, is forecast to move out to sea
Tropical Storm Kyle formed in the Atlantic Ocean near the New Jersey coastline Friday — the earliest K-named stormed in recorded history, according to weather experts. The cyclone was churning...
Cyclone Amphan leaves more than 80 dead in India, Bangladesh
India and Bangladesh are grappling with widespread power outages and flooding following Cyclone Amphan, which left more than 80 people dead. The storm, the most powerful to hit the region...
Nearly 2 dozen dead as Cyclone Amphan pounds India, Bangladesh
At least 22 people in India and Bangladesh died from Cyclone Amphan as the storm continued to pound the densely populated, low-lying region on Thursday, officials said. Amphan made landfall...
Woman posts video of super cyclone 'raging like hell' in India
A woman in India posted video clips of deadly super Cyclone Amphan as it slammed the country on Wednesday. "It’s raging," Jasmine C said as she posted an initial video...
Mysterious boom rattles residents in India, leaves authorities clueless
Millions of Indians were rattled by a loud boom that shook their city Wednesday -- one that baffled even local cops and emergency officials. The boom was heard across the...
Super Cyclone spurs evacuation of millions in India, Bangladesh
Millions of people have been ordered to evacuate from coastal areas of India and Bangladesh ahead of a super cyclone that's already tied a record for the strongest storm in...
Mozambique rebuilds after devastating cyclones
VINHO, Mozambique — When Cyclone Idai roared through central Mozambique in March, it made some 200,000 people homeless and destroyed about 2 million acres of crops. “The winds blew, the...
Mozambique seeks $3.2 billion to recover from cyclones
JOHANNESBURG — Mozambique says it needs $3.2 billion to recover from a pair of powerful tropical cyclones that ripped into the southern African nation earlier this year and left hundreds...
Cyclone Fani’s death toll rises as storm hovers over Bangladesh
Cyclone Fani’s death toll is rising as the storm hovers over the coast of southwestern Bangladesh. At least 12 people in eastern India were killed when the giant storm slammed...
More than 1 million children affected by Mozambique cyclones
PEMBA, Mozambique — Isabella Mussa has not set foot in a classroom or read a book for the past week. For the 13-year-old, displaced by a deadly cyclone in northern...
Cyclone Fani slams eastern coast of India with 150-mph winds
Cyclone Fani slammed into India on Friday, killing at least eight people as winds of up to 150 mph lashed beaches, uprooted trees and forced the evacuation of more than...
India evacuates more than 1 million ahead of devastating cyclone
India has evacuated more than 1 million people on the country's eastern coast as a devastating cyclone barrels toward the country. The state of Odisha ordered the emergency evacuations as...
India braces for ‘extremely severe’ Cyclone Fani to make landfall
NEW DELHI — Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated along India’s eastern coast on Thursday as authorities braced for a cyclone moving through the Bay of Bengal that was...
Muslim survivors of Cyclone Kenneth find refuge in Mozambique church
PEMBA, Mozambique — Next to a marble pulpit inside a Catholic church, a young Muslim girl chases around with other children. The church has become a home for her and...
Death toll jumps to 38 after Mozambique’s latest cyclone
MOZAMBIQUE — The death toll from Cyclone Kenneth in northern Mozambique jumped to 38, the government announced Monday, as flooding and pounding rains hampered efforts to deliver aid to badly...
April 'bomb cyclone' hammers central US
Blizzard warnings were posted from Colorado to Minnesota on Wednesday and wildfires were a concern in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma as the second so-called "bomb cyclone" storm in less...
Mozambique races to contain cholera outbreak after Cyclone Idai
BEIRA, Mozambique — Mozambican and international health workers raced on Monday to contain the outbreak of cholera in the cyclone-hit city of Beira and surrounding areas, where cases of the...
Mozambique cholera cases jump to 139 a day after outbreak
JOHANNESBURG — Cholera cases in Mozambique among survivors of a devastating cyclone have shot up to 139, officials said, as nearly 1 million vaccine doses were rushed to the region...
'Second disaster' feared in Mozambique with cholera a concern
BEIRA, Mozambique — Cyclone-ravaged Mozambique faces a "second disaster" from cholera and other diseases, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday, while relief operations pressed into rural areas where an...
Mozambique city battled climate change, then came a cyclone
MOZAMBIQUE — Long before Cyclone Idai roared in and tore apart Mozambique's seaside city of Beira, the mayor dreamed of protecting his people from climate change. It would be a...