NEW YORK, Dec. 12 -- Sri Lanka is suffering a series of floods and landslides brought upon by Cyclone Ditwah this past November.Climate experts believe the intensity of seasonal storms, which also recently devastated Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia, is likely to have been "supercharged" by rising sea temperatures.

Sri Lankan authorities andcivil societyorganizations are now struggling to bring relief to millions of affected people. About 20% of the island's land was exposed to flooding,according to United Nations estimates, and there have been approximately 1,200 landslides in the interior, damaging homes and infrastructure and destroying crops. International donors havepledged assistancein response to thegovernment's appeal, but they ...