Tally of nursing home deaths during Irma was too low
Hurricane Irma killed many more people in nursing homes in Florida than officials counted, report researchers.
Oct. 8, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: death hurricanes nursing-homes natural-disasters government health-and-medicine
What makes hurricanes stall, and why is that so hard to forecast?
Hurricane stalling has become common over the past half-century, and their average forward speed has also slowed.
Sept. 24, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: climate-change atmosphere flooding hurricanes meteorology weather tropical-cyclones
What makes hurricanes stall, and why is it so hard to forecast?
Hurricane stalling has become common over the past half-century, and their average forward speed has also slowed.
Sept. 24, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: climate-change atmosphere flooding hurricanes meteorology weather tropical-cyclones
Homes are flooding outside FEMA's 100-year flood zones, and racial inequality is showing through
New risk models show nearly twice as many properties are at risk from a 100-year flood today than the government's flood maps indicate.
Sept. 24, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: cities poverty flooding hurricanes natural-disasters fema urban floodplains hurricane-harvey
Why do some hurricanes stall, and why is that so hard to forecast?
Hurricane stalling has become common over the past half-century, and their average forward speed has also slowed.
Sept. 24, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: climate-change atmosphere flooding hurricanes meteorology weather tropical-cyclones
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is so intense, it just ran out of storm names – and then two more storms formed
It's only happened twice since naming started in 1950, and there's an unusual twist to where many of the storms are forming this year.
Sept. 18, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: climate-change hurricanes storms el-nino meteorology natural-disasters oceans atlantic-ocean la-nina tropical-cyclones enso
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is so intense, it just ran out of storm names
In an unusual twist, many of those storms have been forming closer to the US coast.
Sept. 18, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: climate-change hurricanes storms el-nino meteorology natural-disasters oceans atlantic-ocean la-nina tropical-cyclones enso
When hurricanes temporarily halt fishing, marine food webs recover quickly
Hurricane Harvey destroyed the fishing infrastructure of Aransas Bay and reduced fishing by 80% over the following year. This removed humans from the trophic cascade and whole food webs changed.
Sept. 15, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: environment fish ecology hurricane fishing food-webs research-brief marine-biology ecosystems texas cyclones gulf-coast trophic-cascade oyster-reefs
What is a hurricane storm surge, and why is it so dangerous?
It's not just about the hurricane. How high a storm surge gets and how far it reaches also has a lot to do with the land.
Sept. 14, 2020 • ~4 min
Tags: climate-change sea-level-rise flooding hurricanes storms natural-disasters storm-surge weather
What is hurricane storm surge, and why is it so dangerous?
It's not just about the hurricane. How high a storm surge gets and how far it reaches also has a lot to do with the land.
Sept. 14, 2020 • ~4 min
Tags: climate-change sea-level-rise flooding hurricanes storms natural-disasters storm-surge weather
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