Tag: Hurricanes
Hurricane Ida: 2 reasons for its record-shattering rainfall in NYC and...
Russ Schumacher, Colorado State University
Record downpours from Hurricane Ida overwhelmed cities across the Northeast on Sept. 1, 2021,...
IPCC climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth’s oceans and...
Robert Kopp, Rutgers University
Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans...
Some coastal areas are more prone to devastating hurricanes – a...
Athena Masson, University of Florida
Every coastline in the North Atlantic is vulnerable to tropical storms, but some areas...
Worsening hurricane season threatens billions of chickens
Tom Tabler, Mississippi State University
CC BY-SAHurricanes can have devastating consequences for both residents and businesses in their path. And one sector that’s particularly exposed...
Protecting mangroves can prevent billions of dollars in global flooding damage...
Michael Beck, University of California, Santa Cruz and Pelayo Menéndez, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hurricanes and tropical storms are estimated to cost the U.S....
A military perspective on climate change could bridge the gap between...
Michael Klare, Hampshire College
As experts warn that the world is running out of time to head off severe climate change, discussions of what the...
Millions of burnt trees and rusted cars: Post-disaster cleanup is expensive,...
Sybil Derrible, University of Illinois at Chicago; Juyeong Choi, Florida State University, and Nazli Yesiller, California Polytechnic State University
The most destructive and costliest wildfire...
More frequent and intense tropical storms mean less recovery time for...
Hans Paerl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tropical cyclones – storms that bring strong, rotating winds and rain, and which can intensify into...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
