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Earth Sciences Jan 28, 2021

Tropical cyclones are nearing land more, except in Atlantic

Tropical cyclones across the globe, except Atlantic hurricanes, are moving closer to land in recent decades, a new study found.

Environment Nov 30, 2020

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was a record-smasher – and it's raising more concerns about climate change

It was clear before the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season started that it was going to be busy. Six months later, we're looking back at a trail of broken records, and the storms may still not be over even with the season's official ...

Earth Sciences Nov 25, 2020

Record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season draws to an end

The extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is drawing to a close with a record-breaking 30 named storms and 12 landfalling storms in the continental United States. While the official hurricane season concludes on ...

Environment Nov 18, 2020

Antibiotic resistance surveillance tools in Puerto Rican watersheds after Hurricane Maria

When Hurricane Maria made landfall, devastating Dominica, St. Croix, and Puerto Rico in September 2017, flooding and power outages wreaked havoc on the debilitated land, resulting in the contamination of waterways with untreated ...

Environment Nov 17, 2020

Hurricane Iota tears through Central America after Nicaragua landfall

Hurricane Iota swept through northern Nicaragua with its sights set on Honduras Tuesday, after making landfall as the strongest Atlantic storm this year just two weeks after an earlier powerful storm devastated parts of Central ...

Environment Nov 16, 2020

Hurricane Iota now a Category 5 storm near Central America

Hurricane Iota rapidly strengthened Monday into a Category 5 storm that is likely to bring catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by a powerful Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago.

Environment Nov 16, 2020

Maximum Category 5 Hurricane Iota barrels towards Central America

Hurricane Iota strengthened into a "catastrophic" Category 5 hurricane and was set to slam into Central America late Monday, threatening areas devastated by a powerful storm just two weeks ago, the US National Hurricane Center ...

Earth Sciences Nov 11, 2020

Climate change causes landfalling hurricanes to stay stronger for longer

Climate change is causing hurricanes that make landfall to take more time to weaken, reports a study published 11th November 2020 in the journal Nature.

Environment Nov 10, 2020

Final weeks of historic hurricane season bring new storms

Just when you thought it should be safe to go back to the water, the record-setting tropics are going crazy. Again.

Environment Nov 9, 2020

U.S. endured record wildfires, historic hurricanes in October

Extreme weather events took the spotlight again in October as the nation saw raging wildfires, record hurricane activity and record snowfall in some parts.

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