While folks in the Southeast watch the end of TS Bertha and look ahead to the impending Atlantic tropical season, tropical cyclones have already been causing misery in other parts of the world. Last Wednesday Super Cyclone Amphan (a category 5 storm) moved north from the Bay of Bengal and made landfall on the coasts of Bengal and Bangladesh. In the process its tremendous winds caused immense damage to buildings in the area. But for farmers, it had a bigger impact–salt water inundated many low-lying agricultural fields, destroying their ability to grow crops for at least a few years. In some places there was so much salt spray that trees not even inundated by the storm surge are dying from all of the salt in the air. You can read more at https://scroll.in/article/962916/sundarbans-is-finished-super-cyclone-amphan-leaves-a-trail-of-misery-in-bengal.