New York Times: EARLY one in four people on earth live in the countries that border the Bay of Bengal. The region is strategically vital to Asias rising powers. Its low-lying littoral including coastal regions of eastern India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra is home to over half a billion people who are now acutely vulnerable to rising sea levels. Storms are a constant threat; over the weekend, a cyclone, Phailin, swept in from the bay to strike the coastal Indian state of Odisha,...