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The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention

A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.
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  1. Dyna Rochmyaningsih

    1. Dyna Rochmyaningsih is a science journalist based in Palembang, Indonesia.

In late November, three tropical cyclones — Senyar, Ditwah and Koto — devastated cities and villages in countries around the Indian Ocean. In Indonesia’s Sumatra, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Philippines and Sri Lanka, torrential rains, high winds, landslides and flash floods killed at least 1,000 people, buried homes beneath metres of mud and destroyed roads and bridges.

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Nature 648, 252 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03973-x

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