FILE - A polling official enjoys a cooling spray of water under intense heat at a distribution venue for Electronic Voting Machines and other election material on the eve of the fifth phase of polling in the six-week-long national election in Lucknow, India, Sunday, May 19, 2024.
“Twenty years ago there was no tsunami early warning system except for one small part of the world. Now the whole world is covered by a tsunami warning system" after thePeople are getting better warnings about tropical cyclones — also called hurricanes and typhoons — so now the chances of dying in a tropical cyclone in a place like the Philippines are about one-third of what they were 20 years ago, Kishore said.
India and Bangladesh are poster nations for better dealing with disasters and preventing deaths, especially in cyclones, Guha-Sapir said. In 1970,in Bangladesh in one of the 20th century's greatest natural disasters and now “Bangladesh has done fantastic work in disaster risk reduction for years and years and years," she said.