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On the border between India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans suffer from overexploitation and rising sea levels. With a “Climate Wall” project, a virtual museum is raising awareness and increasing resiliency.
A team of scientists used unique tracking data to study how streaked shearwaters fly into typhoons strong enough to destroy houses.
Hurricane Fiona is the most devastating storm to hit Atlantic Canada. International collaboration between ocean measurement institutions is necessary to help efficiently plan responses to hurricanes.
Rising populations and a warming climate mean storm surges from super cyclones are likely to affect increasing numbers of vulnerable people.
Emission of greenhouse gases is on the rise, an indication that the worst lies ahead.
Global floods in 2021 showed the danger of poor emergency preparedness - and the importance of planning ahead.
Research on the front lines of climate change highlights the need to address the mental health outcomes of extreme weather events.
New technologies can help reduce the cost of producing maps that warn where floods might happen.
Land-falling tropical cyclones are rare in Tanzania so past events are outside the memory of most.
Polar lows — intense maritime storms that are sometimes dangerous — form near Canada without anyone noticing.
In 1887 Queensland’s chief weatherman Clement Wragge began naming tropical cyclones, using names from the Greek alphabet, fabulous beasts and politicians who annoyed him.
Madagascar gets hit by an average of four cyclones each year but their full impact is still being tracked.
After Cyclone Tracy, you’d expect Darwin of all cities to be ready for the next one. But as the clean-up after Cyclone Marcus continues, it’s clear more must be done to increase the city’s resilience.
News sharing on Twitter focuses on a broad range of topics, even as Cyclone Debbie dominated other news sources, as shown by the Australian Twitter News Index for March 2017.
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