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But it’s too early to tell whether climate change is to blame.
The ocean warming that might increase the threat of a catastrophic storm could also create the conditions for a natural defensive barrier.
In southern Africa there’s been a southward shift in the occurrence of tropical cyclones in the region. This is due to sea temperatures increasing as a result of global warming.
The Mekong Delta is gradually being washed away, as less sediment is delivered downstream.
Following typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines’ Department for Environment and Natural Resources has earmarked around US$8m to fund efforts to replant much of the affected coastal zone with mangrove forests…
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Associate Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Beaty Water Research Centre, Queen's University, Ontario
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Roger Revelle Professor of Climate Science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
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Professor in Environment and Development, University of Leeds
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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AXA Chair in Coastal Resilience & Research Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Research Scientist, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading
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Professor of Sedimentology and Director, Energy & Environment Institute, University of Hull
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Assistant Professor of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Lecturer in Meteorology, University of Reading
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Director & Research Fellow, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of Southampton
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Professor Spatial Transformation, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen
