BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – Governments and aid groups in Indonesia and Sri Lanka worked on Dec 2 to rush aid to hundreds of thousands stranded by deadly flooding that has killed over 1,300 people in four countries.
Torrential monsoon season deluges paired with two separate tropical cyclones last week
dumped heavy rain across all of Sri Lanka and parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia.
Climate change is producing more intense rain events because a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, and warmer oceans can turbocharge storms.