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do the schools have any... ? December 26, 2004 - ASIA The number of dead and missing from an earthquake off the coast of Indonesia and subsequent tsunami is at least 232,000. The quake measured 9.15 in magnitude. July/August 2005 - INDIA More than 1,000 people were killed — mostly drowned and buried by landslides — after the heaviest ever rainfall was recorded in the western state of Maharashtra on July 26. November 15, 2007- BANGLADESH Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing about 3,500 people. June-July, 2007 - INDIAN SUBCONTINENT Monsoon storms killed about 1,750 people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan. India was hardest hit with at least 750 people killed. 26 May 2009 West Bengal, India - Cyclone Aila battered coastal West Bengal, especially 24 Parganas, uprooting trees, snapping power cables and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake Gobar Times invites readers to share and seek information about Green Schools at:- eeu@cseindia.org or write to Environment Education Unit Centre for Science and Environment 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi-110062
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