Impending Disaster Research Articles

The Madhouse

Abstract This essay theorizes an addiction to ecological anxiety that is characteristic of cultural reactions to climate change and made especially palpable in a time of pandemic. Borrowing from J. M. Coetzee’s identification in Franz Kafka of an epistemology of ever-evolving crisis, the essay surveys the growing corpus of scholarship on the Anthropocene, and, in particular, of quarantine writing, to examine the viral nature of first-person accounts of the ecocatastrophic, revealing a perpetual subjunctivity resistant to the ontological prioritization of the actual over the virtual. While such symptomatic thinking might seem to fulfill a psychologically inoculative function against impending catastrophe, the essay contends that it ultimately becomes a kind of autoimmune disorder: a prophetically self-fulfilling panic that makes it increasingly difficult to fathom, let alone to take action against, our current ecological and political crises.

Flood Forecasting Using Hybrid LSTM and GRU Models with Lag Time Preprocessing

Climate change and urbanization have increased the frequency of floods worldwide, resulting in substantial casualties and property loss. Accurate flood forecasting can offer governments early warnings about impending flood disasters, giving them a chance to evacuate and save lives. Deep learning is used in flood forecasting to improve the timeliness and accuracy of flood water level predictions. While various deep learning models similar to Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) have achieved notable results, they have complex structures with low computational efficiency, and often lack generalizability and stability. This study applies a spatiotemporal Attention Gated Recurrent Unit (STA-GRU) model for flood prediction to increase the models’ computing efficiency. Another salient feature of our methodology is the incorporation of lag time during data preprocessing before the training of the model. Notably, for 12-h forecasting, the STA-GRU model’s R-squared (R2) value increased from 0.8125 to 0.9215. Concurrently, the model manifested reduced root mean squared error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) metrics. For a more extended 24-h forecasting, the R2 value of the STA-GRU model improved from 0.6181 to 0.7283, accompanied by diminishing RMSE and MAE values. Seven typical deep learning models—the LSTM, the Convolutional Neural Networks LSTM (CNNLSTM), the Convolutional LSTM (ConvLSTM), the spatiotemporal Attention Long Short-Term Memory (STA-LSTM), the GRU, the Convolutional Neural Networks GRU (CNNGRU), and the STA-GRU—are compared for water level prediction. Comparative analysis delineated that the use of the STA-GRU model and the application of the lag time pre-processing method significantly improved the reliability and accuracy of flood forecasting.

Canary in a Coal Mine: From Mine Safety Technique to Animal Metaphor (Animals Special Issue)

ABSTRACT In the early twentieth-century coal miners used canaries to detect the presence of poisonous gases underground. Miners treasured canaries for their cheer, partnership, and assistance. This safety practice had largely ended in the United States by the middle of the twentieth century, but the phrase ‘canary in a coal mine’ took on an extended life as a metaphor, signaling impending disaster in a variety of situations. The metaphor’s malleability encouraged the inclusion of caged birds as a plot device. Horror and science fiction films like The Birds, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Arrival, and Bird Box use birds to signal invisible, hard-to-explain risks. The coal mine canary therefore became a sentinel for the most troubling social and political anxieties of each era. It signaled people’s worries that they could no longer identify and manage dangers in the modern world, whether those had to do with warfare, the environment, federal surveillance, social media, or epidemics. The birds’ use as a warning symbol, though, took miners’ beloved, sentient animal and turned it instead into a simple, but powerful tool. The coal mine canary’s continued prescence in popular culture also suggests that Americans remain concerned about the viability of new technologies in a rapidly changing world.

Japan's Technology Investment Strategy And Innovative Approach To Enhancing Resilience And Sustainable Development In Indonesia

Technology and innovation play a crucial role in enhancing a country's resilience and sustainable development. Indonesia as a developing country has great potential to improve resilience and sustainable development through technology development and innovation. By adopting some of the technology investment strategies and innovative approaches that have been successfully implemented by Japan, Indonesia can accelerate progress and achieve sustainable development goals and simultaneously improve resilience in the face of disastersThis research uses descriptive qualitative methods through Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and literature study. As for the selection of resource persons, the technique was carried out by purposive sampling in the activities of the Study Abroad (KKLN) of the Disaster Management Study Program of the Republic of Indonesia Defence University in 2023. By adopting several initiatives that have been successfully implemented by Japan, Indonesia can accelerate progress and achieve sustainable development goals. The implementation of Japan''s technology investment strategy in Indonesia can assist in the development and improvement of advanced early warning systems, which can provide quick and accurate information to the public about impending disaster threats.

Fairies, Environmental Justice, and Re-Enchantment in Modern Pagan Narratives

This paper examines contemporary Pagan narratives about fairies, revealing themes of re-enchantment, environmental grief, and environmental justice. In these narratives, fairies are often portrayed as nature spirits and protectors of the environment who warn humans of impending disaster and suggest techniques for re-enchanting the physical environment through practices that create reciprocal relationships between humans and nature, change consciousness, and allow humans to experience an interconnected, ensouled universe. These narratives can be interpreted as belonging to a category of folk environmentalism in which expressive cultural forms provide resources for communities coping with environmental grief. They also reflect emergent vernacular ontologies which reflect contemporary Pagan efforts to re-enchant the world and shift perceptions from a naturalistic frame to one that is more animistic, in which other-than-human beings are thought to have consciousness and interiority.

Decolonizing Veterinary History: On the benefits of telling the story of Dr Jotello Soga, the first South African veterinarian

Although nearly erased from history, the first formally trained South African veterinarian was the little-known Dr Jotello Festiri Soga (1865–1906), son of the Xhosa Reverend Tiyo Soga and his Scottish wife. By detailing Soga's remarkable trajectory, this paper helps to decolonize the history of veterinary medicine, long dominated by the ‘great deeds’ of a succession of white men, and only recently beginning to diversify. This sort of knowledge decolonization has been increasingly advocated by numerous scholars and a growing number of students globally. Dr Soga qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1886, after studying at the Royal (Dick's) Veterinary School in Edinburgh. Appointed Assistant Veterinary Surgeon for Cape Colony in 1889, he made pioneering contributions to veterinary toxicology and vaccination methods over the next decade. Soga was also one of the earliest to warn of the impending disaster of rinderpest, and he played an instrumental role in the containment and eventual eradication of this devastating disease. He provided essential help in communicating with indigenous South Africans about livestock diseases, although his feelings about his countrymen were sometimes conflicted. The processes of decolonization are complex, and frequently difficult, but the benefits are great.

Post Vaginal Delivery with Impending Silent Abdominal Catastrophe: A Case of Vernix Caseosa Peritonitis

Vernix caseosa peritonitis (VCP) is a rare condition previously thought to be a complication of Caesarean section caused by the spillage of amniotic fluid and or meconium into the maternal peritoneal cavity during operation.1 This triggered an inflammatory reaction symptom such as an acute abdomen. A total of 34 cases has been reported since 1976.2 Nine of the 10 cases reported have been diagnosed in postpartum period after uneventful Caesarean section and only three reported cases of antenatal leakage since in 1998.3 VCP following vaginal delivery was first reported in 2013, involving a 28 year old with one previous scar who developed acute abdomen symptoms as early as 3 hours post vacuum delivery, with initial diagnosis of possible uterine scar rupture.4 Here we report a case of VCP in a post spontaneous vaginal delivery who presented with impending catastrophe and survived the ordeal.

An Exposè on Encumbrance in Political Parties' Financing and Electoral Credibility in Nigeria

Purpose: This study examines political party financing and voting behaviour in north-central Nigeria, with particular focus on the level of financing in the region, the underlining motivations for such financing, and insight into the benefits or otherwise of political party financing on governance and development in the region vis-à-vis electoral process credibility. Theoretical framework: Electoral window in Nigeria political terrain is conceived by the elite as investment venture of which profit is to be maximized by means of exchange of electorates voting power for money, entrenchment of poverty and by extension hold the electoral system to hostage via manipulation, corruption and election irregularities and weak judicial system. According to the investment and social exchange theory, the political class are to business of investment for profit and exchange of services (voting power/vote buying) transaction politics for elite interest aggregation and articulation. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study uses using survey and in-depth interview. The research work was carried out across three dominant political parties in north-central Nigeria, namely the All Progressive Congress (APC), People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and Labour Party (LP), in the north-central geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The research follows three stages of random sampling. Stage one involves the random sampling or selection of two local governments across Benue, the Plateau, and Nassarawa, totaling six units of study. Stage two involves the random selection of two council wards from each of the six (6) identified focus areas, for a total of twelve (12) council wards. Stage three involves the selection of 18 respondents from each unit sampled, making a total of 216 respondents for the study. The study made use of descriptive statistics (Graphs) to analyse the data obtained from a field survey and interview analysed thematically. However, 200 questionnaires were valid for analysis after two weeks of administering the questionnaire. Findings: Findings reveal that unregulated political party financing undermines Nigeria electoral process vis-à-vis electoral credibility. It promotes political patronage and clientele networks; thus, political or electoral funders control and select politicians, thereby sacrificing good governance and development. Excessive and unregulated financing breaks the link between the electorate and politicians, leading to unequal participation, making it difficult for new political forces to emerge. Politicians with large resources often give preferential treatment to their backers, and politicians abuse their access to state resources to maintain power which in turns undermines the electoral process due to transactional (party with big money bags wins’ election) political nature in Nigeria. Research, Practical & Social implications: This study shows that political elites has weaponized transactional politics and corruption to hold on to power and by extension undermines the electoral process which in turns gave rise to bad governance, corruption and poverty in Nigeria and Nigeria is currently suffering from institutional fragility (INEC) and if proactive measures is not taken to suppress these menace in Nigeria political landscape, the country is heading to banana republic. This study helps policymakers to be in the know of the impending disaster that awaits Nigeria in the near future if proactive measures are not taking to quell this menace of transactional politics. Originality/Value: The findings suggest several consequences for the electoral processes in Nigeria and by extension Africa on how eexcessive political party financing affects the performances of eventual winners and electoral outcomes and this transactional politics does not does not benefit the north-central zone as it concerns service delivery oriented governance and development.

Bacteriophage Therapy to Control Bovine Mastitis: A Review.

Bovine mastitis is a polymicrobial disease characterised by inflammation of the udders of dairy and beef cattle. The infection has huge implications to health and welfare of animals, impacting milk and beef production and costing up to EUR 32 billion annually to the dairy industry, globally. Bacterial communities associated with the disease include representative species from Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Enterococcus, Actinomyces, Aerococcus, Escherichia, Klebsiella and Proteus. Conventional treatment relies on antibiotics, but antimicrobial resistance, declining antibiotic innovations and biofilm production negatively impact therapeutic efficacy. Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses which effectively target and lyse bacteria with extreme specificity and can be a valuable supplement or replacement to antibiotics for bovine mastitis. In this review, we provide an overview of the etiology of bovine mastitis, the advantages of phage therapy over chemical antibiotics for the strains and research work conducted in the area in various model systems to support phage deployment in the dairy industry. We emphasise work on phage isolation procedures from samples obtained from mastitic and non-mastitic sources, characterisation and efficacy testing of single and multiple phages as standalone treatments or adjuncts to probiotics in various in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo bovine mastitis infection models. Furthermore, we highlight the areas where improvements can be made with focus on phage cocktail optimisation, formulation, and genetic engineering to improve delivery, stability, efficacy, and safety in cattle. Phage therapy is becoming more attractive in clinical medicine and agriculture and thus, could mitigate the impending catastrophe of antimicrobial resistance in the dairy sector.

Identification Linguistic Markers of Alarmism in Mediadiscourse

This article is devoted to the linguistic study of the phenomenon of alarmism in the media discourse. The influencing, informing and entertaining functions of the mass media determine that the modern news environment largely makes people to read and consume negative news (the phenomenon of mind scrolling). The objectives of the research include clarifying the concept of «alarmism», the study of techniques, and linguistic means of actualizing panic. We analyzed the articles of online publications «Gazeta.Ru», «Kommersant», «Parliamentary Newspaper» using the continuous sampling method. The study found the connection between alarmism and the emotions of anxiety and panic, as well as the fact that these concepts are included in the circle of oppositions of the rational-logical mode of information perception. The authors relied on the existing scientific research illustrating the linguistic possibilities in the transmission of the semantics of anxiety and fear. These include the category of intensity of language units, which is implemented at the lexical and grammatical levels. Conclusions about the speech-acting potential of tropes and figures of speech were taken into account, which can be analyzed within the framework of expressive syntax. The conducted research made it possible to identify linguistic markers of alarmism in the form of lexemes related to a certain thematic area of alarmist agendas. The most frequent are environmental, economic, pandemic topics, as well as lexemes belonging to these topics, explicating fear, threats, impending disasters. Markers at the syntactic level are represented by figures of speech in the form of antithesis and hyperbole.

Apocalyptic Vision in J. G. Ballard’s “Billennium”: An Eco-critical Study

G. Ballard’s “Billennium” presents apocalyptic consciousness. This paper argues that Ballard uses the rhetoric of apocalypse to visualize the impending disaster caused by the problem of overpopulation. It attempts to analyze the story in the light of Friedrich Buell, Greg Garrard and Lawrence Buell’s concept of apocalypse within environmental discourses. The nature of apocalypse in the story is not the usual presentation of violent or cataclysmic end of everything but comic in the sense that it ‘unveils’ or ‘uncovers’ the weaknesses and follies of human beings such as greed for money and power that are responsible for the looming threats of the problem of overcrowding and loss of space in the near future.

Keep Your Dreams Alive: Lazzaro felice, Authoritarian Liberalism, and the Slow Death of Progress in the Italian Second Republic

ABSTRACT This article considers Lazzaro felice (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018) as counter-history to the neoliberal takeover of the modern Italian state. Specifically, it argues the film’s characters serve as witnesses to an authoritarian liberalist hijacking of democracy, the logical endpoint of which is a return to fascism. This reading will be contextualized against the seemingly perpetual cycle of economic and political crises that beset Italy from the establishment of the Second Republic in 1994 to the election of Giorgia Meloni in 2022, positing that the resurgence of the far right has been facilitated by a deliberate, technocratically executed separation of economic and democratic spheres, a process that Lazzaro addresses in both its content and its form. The eponymous Lazzaro, in this reading, emerges as a Benjaminian Angel of History, one who wants to warn us about the impending disaster but keeps getting blown off track by the neoliberal storm we call progress.

The Sky Still Hangs Above Us

Many will remember the salutary tale of "Chicken Little," the story of Henny-penny, the little hen who, when struck on the head by a falling acorn, assumed that the sky was falling. She made it her business to tell anyone who would listen of the impending disaster. Of course, as it turned out, the sky was not actually falling. Despite the best intentions of the story's protagonist, depending on the version one ascribes to, most of the characters involved became a meal for the fox, who it seems was more than happy to be the beneficiary of the confused pandemonium created by the well-intentioned actions of the hen. In some more soothing versions of the fable, the poultry escape the fox's culinary intentions, but the allegorical tale has a serious message. Spreading misinformation can have serious consequences, and the world is currently bearing witness to exactly this in the form of misinformation about the risks and benefits of vaccination.

A systematic review of natural language processing applications for hydrometeorological hazards assessment.

Natural language processing (NLP) is a promising tool for collecting data that are usually hard to obtain during extreme weather, like community response and infrastructure performance. Patterns and trends in abundant data sources such as weather reports, news articles, and social media may provide insights into potential impacts and early warnings of impending disasters. This paper reviews the peer-reviewed studies (journals and conference proceedings) that used NLP to assess extreme weather events, focusing on heavy rainfall events. The methodology searches four databases (ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Scopus, and IEEE Xplore) for articles published in English before June 2022. The preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis reviews and meta-analysis guidelines were followed to select and refine the search. The method led to the identification of thirty-five studies. In this study, hurricanes, typhoons, and flooding were considered. NLP models were implemented in information extraction, topic modeling, clustering, and classification. The findings show that NLP remains underutilized in studying extreme weather events. The review demonstrated that NLP could potentially improve the usefulness of social media platforms, newspapers, and other data sources that could improve weather event assessment. In addition, NLP could generate new information that should complement data from ground-based sensors, reducing monitoring costs. Key outcomes of NLP use include improved accuracy, increased public safety, improved data collection, and enhanced decision-making are identified in the study. On the other hand, researchers must overcome data inadequacy, inaccessibility, nonrepresentative and immature NLP approaches, and computing skill requirements to use NLP properly.

Death Messengers in the Russian Literature of the 19th Century (On Tolstoy’s Novel “Anna Karenina” and Turgenev’s Story “The Unfortunate One”)

Purpose. The article is devoted to the analysis of death messengers, their role and meaning in Ivan Turgenev’s story “The Unfortunate One” and Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina”.Results. In Turgenev’s story a herald of death is presented as a phantom, a soul manifestation of the young woman who subsequently dies under mysterious circumstances. At the same time, the phantom appears not to the gaze of the female character, who falls victim to family intrigues, but to her spiritual friend, Pyotr Gavrilovich. The young student perceives a strange vision as an optical illusion, but sees the next clue that is a dream, a premonition of an impending disaster. A light phantom of the young woman is both an omen of her impending death, and a kind of call for help. In “Anna Karenina”, the messenger of death appears in the form of an infernal old man and becomes a sign of the terrible death of an unfortunate woman. His horrible appearance is a reflection of the horror that Anna Karenina faces in the last minutes of her life.Conclusion. Death messengers warn of impending danger but also let us guess the type of death awaiting the heroes by their look.

River Flood Early Warning System Based on Internet of Things in Binjai City

Flood is an event of inundation of land, which is usually dry, by water originating from water sources around the land. Binjai City is an area prone to flash floods. This is because in Binjai City there are 5 (five) upstream rivers namely the Bingei river, Mencirim river, Bangkatan river, Diski river and Rambai river. A flood early warning system is a series of systems that function to notify an impending flood disaster. With the existence of a flood early warning system, it can provide information to the community and can reduce victims or losses due to the community's unpreparedness in dealing with flood disasters. This study aims to create a prototype of a river flood early warning system based on the internet of things (IoT). The method used is to design and create a flood early warning system prototype, then perform system testing. The system is designed using the Arduino Mega2560 microcontroller as the system control center, the HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensors and the ESP32-Cam camera module as system input, as well as buzzer, LCD and website as system output. The transmission medium used is wireless via a 4G WiFi Modem connected to the internet. System prototype testing will be carried out in the Bangkatan river area in Binjai City. From the results of the discussion, it was found that the river flood warning system using the HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor and the ESP32-Cam camera module based on the Internet of Things was successfully designed and implemented in prototype form and worked well. Ultrasonic sensors work well in measuring river water level with an average error percentage of 3.642%. The ESP32-Cam camera module works well in capturing images of river water conditions up to a distance of 200 cm. (9 pt).

DECONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL NARRATIVES: TRAGICOMEDY AND TRAGIFARCE (DRAMATURGY BY L. TYMOSHENKO, LENA LYAGUSHONKOVA, V. CHENSKY)

The article examines tragicomedy and tragifarce as dramatic genres actualized in modern drama, and characterizes their specifics. The concept of liminality is an effective strategy in literary studies, which made it possible to study the peculiarities of modern Ukrainian drama in the context of the implementation of the genre matrix of the ritual of transition in the genres of tragicomedy and tragifarce. Modern Ukrainian playwrights transform the genre varieties of «domestic comedy», resort to tragicomedy, which is able to demonstrate the inseparable unity of the tragic and the comic as a typical liminal state, and choose the tragic farce, which through comic pathos highlights the problematic points of the social structure, which does not meet the current requirements and destroys the individual . Tragicomedy and tragicfarce genres are studied on the example of the plays of modern Ukrainian playwrights L. Tymoshenko, V. Chensky, Lena Lyagushonkova, and others. The combination of the comic and the tragic is an integral component of the works of all modern playwrights: the «comic» becomes dominant, the basis from which the «tragic» grows, which is transferred to the level of the reader’s consciousness, forming receptive liminality as a state of searches, variability of interpretations, perception of works of complex form. Playwrights embody the characters of the works in an atmosphere of joy, laughter, grotesque comedy, while the tragic pathos is formed by the images of the plays, which create an atmosphere of impending disaster that the characters do not feel. The authors turn traditional images and plots into kitsch, make them a means of critical camp: they deconstruct them in the genre matrix of rituals of transition. The contrast between the comic and the tragic is a feature of the playwrights’ artistic style, which forms the basis of the tragicomic: the authors implement a comic plot that can end in a tragic ending, or turn the tragic into an optimistic one.

Tourism, Risk Management, Sustainability options, the India Story

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, within hours in some cases brought sorrow to many countries, India too suffered with Tamil Nadu reporting damage and deaths in Chennai, Velankanni, Cuddalore, Kaniyakumari, Poompuhar, and Nagapattinam to mention a few. It was the year end, and many were traveling to various places to spend time with family and friends in tourist centers. The reported deaths were 8000. All places of tourism of various hues. In 2013, the sudden rapid melting of ice and snow on the Kedarnath Mountain which in turn flooded Chorabari Lake upstream and eruption of the Mandakini River inundated the Pilgrimage town of Kedarnath, catching the pilgrims with surprise and the others who were unaware of the impending disaster downstream. The reported deaths were 5000. The heart of Pilgrimage tourism for the devout. ‘Gods own Country,’ Kerala in 2018 had to declare red alert in all its 14 districts, more than a million souls had to be evacuated from Chengannur, Aranmula, Kozhencherry, Ayiroor, Ranni, Pandalam, Kuttanad, Malappuram, Aluva, Chalakudy, Thrissur, Thiruvalla, Chellanam, Vypin Island, Palakkad, the list is endless; More than 490 were reported dead, 15 missing. The severe floods, due to high rainfall, land-slides which made small villages and towns disappear; was scary. Kerala is a known tourism hub. Whether it is tourism or ecotourism, one question asked, are we prepared for any Disaster that may occur at any point in time? Are the Destination Management Organizations prepared to face any eventuality. The research paper is a work in progress and makes an effort to answer questions from across India through case studies, if the Tourism system indeed is ready to face disasters.

Soil Erosion Estimation Using Geospatial Technology: A Study of Jyadul Khola Basin, Gorkha, Nepal

Estimation of soil erosion from drainage basins is essential while assessing the severity and its impact on agriculture, forests, barren land, waterbodies, and built- up areas. Jyadul Khola basin significantly affects the ecological processes that feed into the Budhigandaki River in the south-eastern side of Gorkha District. This paper has attempted to estimate the mean erosion rate based on the erosion severity classes. Remotely sensed Ziyuan-3 satellite image processed in Earth Resources Data Analysis System (ERDAS) Imagine, Geographical Information System (GIS), and Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) model were used in this study. The land use land cover (LULC) classification results were validated by using confusion matrix by computing overall accuracy and kappa coefficient which is 95% and 0.94 respectively. The basin had been classified into 6 categories based on erosion severity. The results indicated 92.7% of land (0-5 t ha–1 yr–1) is low severe followed by 2.39% (10-20 t ha–1 yr–1) moderate, 2.07% (5-10 t ha–1 yr–1) high, 2.04% (20-40 t ha–1 yr–1) very high, 0.67% (40-80 t ha–1 yr–1) severe and 0.10% of land (>80 t ha–1 yr–1) which is very severe for soil erosion. The total annual mean soil loss was found to be 13526.60 t yr–1 and soil erosion classes ranges from 0 to 305.34 t ha–1 yr–1 for the entire study area. Kuwapani, Lakuri Bhanjyang, Khadkagaun, Garapani and Kaulebhagar area are the most susceptible to soil erosion. It is observed that barren land, steep slopes, and high intensity of rainfall are major factors for soil erosion hazard. This outcome can serve as a foundation for decision-makers to conserve high risk areas and plan effective measure to lessen impending disasters.

THE ROLE OF NEWSPAPER IN DISSEMINATING INFORMATION IN AMPHAN AFFECTED AREAS: A STUDY ON PIROJPUR DISTRICT

In general, Bangladesh's coastal region has been hit by a lot of disasters, but the frequency of these disasters has grown in recent years. Providing adequate information can help lessen the damage caused by these events. Newspapers are vital medium for disseminating information to the public about impending disasters specially in the coastal areas of Bangladesh. This study is all about analyzing the role of newspapers in disseminating information about the Cyclone Amphan to common people's consciousness. Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used in this study. The information was gathered through content analysis of four national dailies and interviews with two groups: victims of the Amphan affected area in the Pirojpur district and journalists from national dailies working in the same district. The study finds that there was insufficient coverage of Cyclone Amphan concerns in The Daily Star (5%), The Daily Prothom Alo (9%), The Daily Ittefaq (7%), and Bangladesh Pratidin (6%) of the total news. From the analysis, newspapers carried disaster-related news to warn the public in disaster-prone areas about the disaster's damage and measures, as well as to alert affected individuals about the disaster's position and signal. Despite the low coverage of disaster news, newspapers attracted people's attention because they provided accurate and credible news and allowed them to learn more about a diverse range of topics.