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.

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.

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.

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, […] ...

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, ...

BANGKOK, May 26 -- -- BANGKOK, May 26 -- Foreign relief workers began filtering into Burma's Irrawaddy Delta on Monday, as aid agencies tested whether the ruling military junta would keep its ...

The Irrawaddy Delta of Myanmar used to be rich in mangroves, but only 20 percent of the original coverage remains today. Although it’s illegal to log mangrove wood, ...

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 ...

Three months ago, Cyclone Nargis swept through Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, leaving more than 144,000 people dead or missing. Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. For weeks, the country ...

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 ...