Speaking to Al Jazeera, Collinson, who has been living in Myanmar and working in the Irrawaddy delta for the past year, said: “I visited one school which had 82 children before the cyclone.

One of the deadliest cyclones of all time, Nargis exposed Myanmar's extreme lack of infrastructure, killing an estimated 140,000 people. The Delta still hasn't recovered.

When the eye of the storm swirled over the Irrawaddy delta around 3 a.m., the rain was lashing his house from the side. “We couldn’t even see our neighbor’s house,” he says, ...

The BBC's Jonathan Head visits the Irrawaddy Delta, devastated by Cyclone Nargis in 2008, to see how communities are recovering as reforms bring aid in.

YANGON, Myanmar – A ferry has sunk in the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar and 10 people have died. Three people are missing, but 72 have been rescued. State media reported Wednesday that the "Pathein ...

The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the peninsulas and islands of the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar. With a length of over 2200 km, the Irrawaddy River is the country’s largest, […] ...

IRRAWADDY DELTA, Myanmar — For many in Myanmar, Cyclone Nargis was a wake-up call. When it made landfall in May 2008, it devastated the Irrawaddy Delta, a rural and low-lying region of the country.

YANGON, Myanmar – State media say a motorized ferry sank in a river in Burma's cyclone-battered Irrawaddy delta, leaving 38 people dead. The New Light of Myanmar newspaper reports that the ship ...

The fertile, wet Irrawaddy Delta region is Burma's rice bowl To this day mystery surrounds the response of Burma's military government to the catastrophic cyclone that, on 2 May 2008, smashed into ...

The BBC's Jonathan Head visits the Irrawaddy Delta, devastated by Cyclone Nargis in 2008, to see how communities are recovering as reforms bring aid in.