The cyclone displaced about 2.4 million people in West Bengal and Odisha, and was the costliest tropical cyclone in the North Indian Ocean in history.

The proliferation of hydropower projects in the region increases risk of landslides endangering villages downstream.

The beleaguered, isolated region was further cut off from basic services, the rest of the country, over the past three days.

Increased cyclones, droughts, floods, and cold waves are likely to affect areas home to 638 million Indians.

The sharp increase in floods, storms, heatwaves, and droughts has cost the global economy $3 trillion.

While scientists always considered the phenomenon theoretically possible, this study provides "some of the clearest evidence for this enigmatic mechanism occurring in a real fault."