The Kosi, Bihar's river of sorrow, has lived up to its name. On the morning of August 18, the river breached its embankments at Kusawa near the India-Nepal border and swept through Bihar's northeastern plains. Villages, farmlands, homes were flooded in one of India's worst natural disasters ever. More than 3 lakh people are now living in relief camps and 30 lakh people have been affected. Many of these people don't have homes to go back to and are those too young to protect themselves.
1,346 villages hit, land area of of about 2,69,609 hectares affected.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/floods-displace-a-million-in-assam-15-killed/72665-3.html
World's deadliest natural disasters in the past forty years.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/some-of-the-worlds-deadliest-natural-disasters/65126-2.html
Research attributes the increased number of calamities to global warming.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/8-of-worst-10-disasters-struck-asia-in-2007-study/56881-11.html
Indian coastal regions alerted after underwater quake of 7.9 magnitude.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india-on-tsunami-alert-after-quake-near-indonesia/48531-2.html
Most Americans predict a terror attack, death and destruction from a natural disaster and a warmer planet in 2007.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/most-americans-fear-terror-in-07/30001-2.html
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