Successive storms have displaced millions across South and Southeast Asia, overwhelming emergency services and destroying harvests weeks before the main rice season.
Relief agencies describe the flooding as unprecedented in living memory, with entire districts submerged and transport links severed.
The response
Governments have deployed military engineers to reinforce embankments, while international aid groups rush clean water, shelter kits, and medical teams to the hardest-hit areas.
The longer view
Climate scientists say warmer oceans are loading storms with more moisture. "This is the new baseline," one researcher said. "Recovery planning has to assume it happens again."
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