News tagged with coastal storms
New study identifies economies that will suffer most as climate change imperils fisheries
Feb 05, 2009 |
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With climate change threatening to destroy coral reefs, push salt water into freshwater habitats and produce more coastal storms, millions of struggling people in fishery-dependent nations of Africa, Asia and South America ...
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Geotimes: The impending coastal crisis
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2008 |
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Coastlines are the most dynamic feature on the planet. In the March issue, Geotimes magazine looks into the risks of increased development along our coastlines and what that means for erosion, flooding and future development.
How will future sea-level rise linked to climate change affect coastal areas?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 05, 2009 |
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The anticipated sea-level rise associated with climate change, including increased storminess, over the next 100 years and the impact on the nation's low-lying coastal infrastructure is the focus of a new, ...
Hurricane frequency is up but not their strength, say researchers
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Sep 22, 2009 |
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In a new study, Clemson University researchers have concluded that the number of hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic Basin is increasing, but there is no evidence that their individual strengths ...
When it comes to hurricanes, what's in a name?
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Sep 03, 2009 |
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With three months left in the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, storm watchers can be sure that there will not be another Hurricane Katrina, or Rita, or Wilma this year, or ever again.
Researchers Study Coastal Hazards of Increasing Wave Heights, Rising Sea Levels
Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While hurricanes Gustav and Ike were pummeling the Gulf Coast with rains and record flooding, researchers at Oregon State University were studying why wave heights in the Pacific Ocean have been increasing ...
Scottish archaeological sites threatened
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May 30, 2007 |
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Experts say major archaeological sites on the Scottish coast are in danger of being washed away as sea levels rise.
NASA's GOES Project offers real-time hurricane alley movies
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Nov 09, 2009 |
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People love to get the big picture of hurricane alleys, and thanks to the GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., they can now get real-time satellite animations of the eastern ...
Ida now a coastal low assaulting the Mid-Atlantic
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Nov 12, 2009 |
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Ida is one stubborn girl. Her remnants have moved out to sea and reformed as a powerful coastal low pressure system that's been raining on the mid-Atlantic since Tuesday night, November 10. The Geostationary ...
New tools to forecast hurricane rainfall inland
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Jun 19, 2007 |
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All eyes are on where hurricanes make landfall, but the massive storms actually cause the most deaths inland, where severe flooding often surprises residents.
Very long-term forecast: Northwest winters will be even wetter
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Oct 18, 2006 |
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If you think Pacific Northwest winters are gray and rainy now, just wait. By the end of this century winter storms are likely to be much more pronounced, particularly west of the Cascade Range, according to ...
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