Every month, disasters caused by extreme weather kill more people in South and Southeast Asia. In January, a landslide in Indonesia’s West Java followed heavy rain and led to dozens of deaths — including 23 Indonesian marines out on a training exercise.

The end of 2025 was punctuated by similar depressing headlines. Cyclone Ditwah killed over 600 in Sri Lanka in December; a few days earlier, Cyclone Senyar’s toll in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand had crossed 1,000.

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