Battered Caribbean prepares for hurricanes amid pandemic
Hurricanes. Earthquakes. COVID-19.
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NASA satellite identified a less-organized Caribbean Tropical Storm Karen
Satellite imagery can be used to peer inside a storm as well as assess the storm's outside shape to give forecasters understanding of what's happening to it. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible ...
Environment
Sep 23, 2019
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Puerto Rico's Hurricane Maria provides ethnic studies lesson
When UO ethnic studies associate professor Alaí Reyes-Santos flipped on the late-night news on September 19, 2017, she saw something she'd been dreading since childhood: a category four hurricane was barreling toward Puerto ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2019
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In the Caribbean, colonialism and inequality mean hurricanes hit harder
Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc in the region.
Environment
Sep 21, 2017
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Video: What can Hurricane Irma tell us about the future of Atlantic hurricanes?
Anand Gnanadesikan, a climate modeler in Johns Hopkins University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, examines the atmospheric and oceanic circulation of the tropics, including how changes in circulation can affect ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 11, 2017
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Fossils reveal how bizarre mammal beat extinction
Animals that live on islands are among the most at risk from extinction. A remarkable eighty percent of extinctions occurring since 1500AD have been on islands, with inhabitants facing dangers from climate change, sea level ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 24, 2017
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TRMM satellite adds up Cristobal's heavy rainfall in the Caribbean
The Caribbean Islands of Turks and Caicos were drenched from Tropical Storm Cristobal before the storm moved north and intensified into a hurricane. NASA's TRMM satellite added up the rainfall and revealed the soaking those ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2014
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Scientist names new fly species after the professor who has supported his work
A Professor from The University of Manchester has had his name immortalised as a new species of fly.
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2013
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Helping many people boosts social standing more than helping many times
A business may build a better reputation as a good corporate citizen by donating $100,000 to ten charities, as opposed to $1million to one charity, suggested University of Missouri anthropologist Shane Macfarlan. Contrary ...
Economics & Business
Jun 26, 2013
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Encroaching sea already a threat in Caribbean
The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood ...
Environment
May 7, 2013
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