Why COVID-19 has left the UK especially vulnerable to flooding this winter
La Niña means we are forecast a wet winter – and people are struggling and ill-prepared.
Gabrielle Powell, PhD Candidate in Environmental Science, University of Reading •
conversation
Nov. 30, 2020 • ~7 min
Nov. 30, 2020 • ~7 min
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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.
Kimberly Wood, Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Mississippi State University •
conversation
Sept. 18, 2020 • ~6 min
Sept. 18, 2020 • ~6 min
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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.
Kimberly Wood, Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Mississippi State University •
conversation
Sept. 18, 2020 • ~6 min
Sept. 18, 2020 • ~6 min
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Corals show intense El Niño swings during Industrial Age
Stronger El Niño events are part of a strange climate pattern that appears unique to the Industrial Age, according to coral records spanning millennia.
Ben Brumfield-Georgia Tech •
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Nov. 26, 2019 • ~6 min
Nov. 26, 2019 • ~6 min
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