Tag: extreme weather
Coral reefs face an uncertain recovery from the 4th global mass...
Noam Vogt-Vincent, University of Hawaii
Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these colorful seascapes are built by...
California plan to ban most plants within 5 feet of homes...
Max Moritz, University of California, Santa Barbara and Luca Carmignani, San Diego State University
One of the most striking...
In 2025, Tornado Alley has become almost everything east of the...
Daniel Chavas, Purdue University
Violent tornado outbreaks, like the storms that tore through parts of St. Louis and London,...
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves...
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound...
The world regulated sulfur in ship fuels − and the lightning stopped
Chris Wright, University of Washington
If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll...
Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and...
Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology
Healthy coastal ecosystems play crucial roles in the U.S. economy, from supporting multibillion-dollar...
Why people rebuild in Appalachia’s flood-ravaged areas despite the risks
Kristina P. Brant, Penn State
On Valentine’s Day 2025, heavy rains started to fall in parts of rural Appalachia....
If FEMA didn’t exist, could states handle the disaster response alone?
Ming Xie, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and...