Tag: Sumatra
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Indonesia Seeks Over $3 Billion for Sumatra Flood Recovery Efforts
Indonesia says more than $3 billion in recovery funds required after Sumatra floods Reuters How a cocktail of rogue storms and climate chaos unleashed deadly flooding across Asia CNN Pope Leo XIV prays for victims of floods in Southeast Asia Vatican News Indonesia Halts Agincourt, PTPN III Operations After Floods livemint.com Death toll from devastating Indonesia floods passes 900 BBC…
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Exploring the Senyar Swamps of Sumatra: A NASA Perspective
Tropical cyclones almost never form over the Strait of Malacca. The narrow waterway separating Peninsular Malaysia from the Indonesian island of Sumatra sits so close to the equator that the Coriolis effect is usually too weak to allow storms to rotate enough to organize into cyclones. But on November 25, 2025, meteorologists watched as a…