Hurricanes and Cyclones News
May 21, 2024
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Apr. 29, 2024 Using aerial imagery data and LiDAR, a study remotely identified the hardest-hit areas of Southwest Florida's Estero Island in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Researchers estimated the extent of ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Many American companies are relying on carbon offsets to reduce their carbon footprint, especially those who have pledged to achieve 'net-zero emissions.' Sequestering carbon in forests is an example of a nature-based solution that is being used to ...
Apr. 5, 2024 The study underscores the crucial role of microbes in maintaining coral reef health, akin to the human gut microbiome. Hurricanes and disease outbreaks affect coral reef water microbial communities, leading to changes that may support further reef ...
Mar. 26, 2024 A study is the first to evaluate substrate recolonization by sponges in the U.S. Virgin Islands after two catastrophic storms using genetic analyses to understand how much clonality verses sexual ...
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Apr. 9, 2024 Understanding how social media is used during a disaster can help with disaster preparedness and recovery for future ...
Mar. 2, 2024 After one of the most intense cyclones in world history tore through the Pacific island of Tanna in Vanuatu, new research showed the resilience of ...
Feb. 28, 2024 Thousands of historic and archaeological sites in Georgia are at risk from tropical storm surges, and that number will increase with climate change, ...
Feb. 5, 2024 For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds ...
Jan. 29, 2024 When storms hit back-to-back, the flooding -- and economic damages -- are even worse than ...
Jan. 24, 2024 A new method predicts how much flooding a coastal community is likely to experience as hurricanes evolve due to climate change. Using New York as a test case, the model predicts Hurricane Sandy-level ...
Dec. 21, 2023 Research reveals a steady increase in the number of people at risk from tropical cyclones and the number of days per year these potentially catastrophic storms threaten health and livelihoods. The ...
Dec. 19, 2023 Researchers report that local rivers and streams were the source of the Salmonella enterica contamination along coastal North Carolina after Hurricane Florence in 2018 -- not the previously suspected ...
Dec. 7, 2023 Researchers train AI to accurately recognize addresses and other location descriptions in Hurricane Harvey social media ...
Nov. 23, 2023 Extreme events like tropical cyclones have immediate impacts, but also long-term implications for societies. A new study now finds: Accounting for ...
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Dec. 14, 2023 Two new studies based on data from 2009 to 2018 show that renters living along the East and Gulf coasts of the United States face rent increases, higher eviction rates, and a lack of affordable ...
Nov. 17, 2023 After a massive cyclone transformed the ecosystem of Gorongosa National Park, researchers studied the immediate and knock-on impacts to garner lessons for wildlife managers around the ...
Oct. 26, 2023 Scientists at NCAR have identified two entirely different modes of hurricane rapid intensification. The findings may lead to better understanding and prediction of these dangerous ...
Oct. 19, 2023 New research by climate scientists indicates that there have been great changes to Atlantic hurricanes in just the past 50 years, with storms developing and strengthening ...
Oct. 16, 2023 When Hurricane Ian struck southwest Florida in September 2022, it unleashed a variety of Vibrio bacteria that can cause illness and death in humans, according to a new ...
Oct. 6, 2023 New research has revealed that since the 1980s, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes (maximum wind speed greater than 131 miles per hour) have been arriving three to four days earlier with each passing decade ...
Greater Excess Mortality After Hurricanes More Recently and for Most Socially Vulnerable in the U.S.
Aug. 16, 2023 Over recent decades, there was a large variation in cyclone-related excess deaths by hurricane, state, county, year, and social vulnerability for counties in the United States, with 83 percent of ...
Aug. 1, 2023 A newly published study describes the response to sea level rise by the silver rice rat, an endangered species only found in the Florida ...
June 27, 2023 As human-driven climate change amplifies natural disasters, hurricanes and typhoons stand to increase in intensity. Until now, there existed very few freely available computer models designed to ...
Apr. 11, 2023 The island of Dominica took a direct hit from Category 5 Hurricane Maria. Nine months afterward, researchers found that while 89% percent of trees located in nine previously documented forest stands ...
Mar. 30, 2023 Being able to withstand hurricane-force winds is the key to a long life for many buildings on the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast of the U.S. Determining the right level of winds to design for is ...
Mar. 15, 2023 In the U.S., we may often think of landslides as primarily a West Coast problem, mostly plaguing the mountainous terrain of California, Oregon, and Washington. New research highlights the major ...
Feb. 27, 2023 Driven by a combination of rising sea levels and climate change, destructive hurricanes and tropical storms could become far more likely to hit coastal areas in quick succession, researchers found. ...
Feb. 8, 2023 The endangered Bahama Warbler may be surviving on just one island following Hurricane Dorian's devastation in 2019, according to researchers. A new study shows the bird's distribution and ...
Jan. 12, 2023 Combining satellite technology with machine learning may allow scientists to better track and prepare for climate-induced natural hazards, according to new ...
Jan. 4, 2023 Tropical cyclone researchers report a warming climate could increase the number of tropical cyclones and their intensity in the North Atlantic, potentially creating more and stronger hurricanes. In a ...
Jan. 4, 2023 Global warming is expected to lead to an accumulation of particularly intense hurricanes in the United States. This may substantially increase the economic losses caused by these storms. Better ...
Dec. 20, 2022 ESA's novel Aeolus satellite reliably measures wind speed also in higher air layers and thus in a region of the atmosphere where other direct global wind measurements are relatively sparse. This ...
Dec. 8, 2022 Americans are leaving many of the U.S. counties hit hardest by hurricanes and heatwaves -- and moving towards dangerous wildfires and warmer temperatures, says one of the largest studies of U.S. ...
Dec. 7, 2022 Researchers used a unique coupled computer modeling approach to accurately recreate the coastal flooding that occurred during Hurricane Florence, demonstrating that it is more accurate than ...
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- Cyclone Researchers: Warming Climate Means More and Stronger Atlantic Tropical Storms
- Climate Risk Insurance Can Effectively Mitigate Economic Losses
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- Officials Leading Hurricane Response Need ‘risk Literacy’
- Nature’s Archive Reveals Atlantic Tempests Through Time
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- Research Shows Scale Models Effective for Predicting Storm Damage to Wood-Frame Buildings
- Human, Swine Waste Pose Dual Threats to Water Quality After Flooding
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- Ocean Microplastics: First Global View Shows Seasonal Changes and Sources
- Study of Hurricane Harvey Flooding Aids in Quantifying Climate Change