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More Hurricanes for Hawaii?
May 5, 2013 Hawaii, fortunately, has been largely free from hurricanes, only two having made landfall in more than 30 years. Now a new study shows that Hawaii could see a two-to-three-fold increase in tropical ... > full story -
NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn
April 30, 2013 NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, ... > full story -
New Metric to Measure Destructive Potential of Hurricanes
April 25, 2013 Researchers have developed a new metric to measure seasonal Atlantic tropical cyclone activity that focuses on the size of storms in addition to the duration and intensity, a measure that may prove ... > full story -
Superstorm Sandy Shook the U.S., Literally
April 18, 2013 When superstorm Sandy turned and took aim at New York City and Long Island last October, ocean waves hitting each other and the shore rattled the seafloor and much of the United States – ... > full story -
Most Effective PTSD Therapies Are Not Being Widely Used, Researchers Find
April 11, 2013 Post-traumatic stress disorder affects nearly 8 million adults in any given year, federal statistics show. Fortunately, clinical research has identified certain psychological interventions that ... > full story -
Ten Times More Hurricane Surges in Future, New Research Predicts
March 18, 2013 How much worse will the frequency of extreme storm surges get as temperatures rise in the future? How many extreme storm surges like that from Hurricane Katrina, which hit the U.S. coast in 2005, ... > full story -
Changes in Heart Attack Timing Continue Years After Hurricane Katrina
March 7, 2013 The upheaval caused by Hurricane Katrina seems to have disrupted the usual timing of heart attacks, shifting peak frequency from weekday mornings to weekend nights, in a change in pattern that ... > full story -
Higher Heart Attack Rates Continue 6 Years After Katrina
March 7, 2013 New Orleans residents continue to face a three-fold increased risk of heart attack post-Katrina -- a trend that has remained unchanged since the storm hit in 2005, according to new ... > full story -
More Storms Like Sandy? Arctic Ice Loss Amplified Superstorm Sandy Violence
March 5, 2013 Researchers have shown that the severe loss of summertime Arctic sea ice – attributed to greenhouse warming – appears to increase the frequency of atmospheric blocking events like the one ... > full story -
Restoration Planned for Shoreline Protecting NASA's Kennedy Space Center Infrastructure
February 25, 2013 Late last October, one of the most destructive storms ever to hit the United States bashed the beaches of Brevard County in Florida, including the shoreline of NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Scientists ... > full story
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