Storm

In the wake of Cyclone Mora, flood waters flattened many homes in this village in Kalutara, Sri Lanka.
IOM

Sri Lanka: UN assists storm victims, seeks to contain diseases 'spiralling out of control'

6 June 2017
In the aftermath of a devastating tropical storm in Sri Lanka, United Nations agencies are working to provide shelters and other emergency kits while seeking to contain a mosquito-borne disease that is starting to “spiral out of control.”
Josette Sheeran, WFP Executive Director

Haiti: senior UN relief official surveys storm-ravaged communities

26 September 2008
The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began a two-day visit to assess the devastation across hurricane-ravaged Haiti, which was grappling with chronic food security even before the recent series of storms.
A family outside their home in Leogane, a town in southern Haiti hit by Hurricane Gustav

UNICEF brings relief to hurricane-ravaged Cuba, Turks and Caicos Islands

13 September 2008
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) staff in Cuba are rushing to provide clean water and sanitation to the areas hardest hit this week by Hurricane Ike, the fourth deadly tropical storm to batter the Caribbean region with torrential rains and heavy winds within the past month.
UNICEF is airlifting 11.5 tons of relief supplies to Haiti

Destruction a serious obstacle to emergency aid efforts in Haiti – UN agencies

11 September 2008
The damage to infrastructure and extensive flooding across hurricane-battered Haiti is so severe that relief and recovery efforts are being handicapped, a top United Nations official to the country said today.
MINUSTAH peacekeepers rescue Haitian children from rainstorm

UN appeals for over $100 million to aid Haiti storm-stricken survivors

10 September 2008
The United Nations appealed today for over $100 million to help with humanitarian relief efforts for the survivors of a series of hurricanes that battered Haiti in the last three weeks, killing at least 328 people and leaving a trail of devastation in its wake.
Northeast Asian dust and sand storms

Asian dust storms grow in frequency, wreaking havoc far from home – UN

31 March 2004
In “a globalization of environmental problems” dust and sand storms in northeast Asia have grown vastly in frequency and intensity, leading to widespread loss of livestock and crops, disrupted communications, respiratory problems and deaths far from their source, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today.