Envisat captured Cyclone Nargis making its way across the Bay of Bengal just south of Myanmar on 1 May 2008. The cyclone hit the coastal region and ripped through the heart of Myanmar on Saturday, devastating the country.

The international community is offering aid to military-ruled Burma as the death toll from Saturday's cyclone has risen to nearly 22,500.

While the media outlets around the world already are reporting that the death toll of the Myanmar cyclone has reach 4000, AP just now has a developing breaking news that "AP: Diplomats say Myanmar's foreign minister acknowledges in a briefing that cyclone death toll could rise to 10,000."

351 people have been reported dead after a cyclone hit Burma, which is also known as Myanmar. As a result it has been declared by the Burmese government that five states are currently disaster areas.

Driven by the wind, the highly energetic circulation patterns of the upper ocean play important roles in the global distribution of heat and nutrients. Despite this importance, many aspects of upper ocean dynamics are poorly known, especially how its variability is characterized by the interaction of different types of motion and scales.

Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh killed more that 3,100 people and ruined the country’s coast. Now the authorities ask for more foreign aid to help those who survived the catastrophe.

Decomposed bodies littered B'desh's cyclone ravaged southern coastline sparking fears of epidemic as authorities struggled to provide relief to lakhs of homeless survivors that has so far claimed 3,000 lives.

Cyclone Sidr has swept over Bangladesh, killing some 1100 people, with around 1000 missing and more than 20,000 homes destroyed, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

Officials in Bangladesh say more than 500 people have been killed by a powerful cyclone that has devastated the country's south-west coast.

A very severe cyclonic storm, nicknamed 'SIDR' and now lying just 250 km south of Kolkata, was fast racing towards the West Bengal coast and was likely to make landfall with a speed of 180 to 200 km per hour by midnight tonight.

In the past few years, two very unusual tropical cyclones developed over the Atlantic Ocean. The first was 2004 Hurricane Catarina, which made landfall over the southern coast of Brazil.