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'Above normal' conditions could bring as many as 10 hurricanes to the US this summer

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Climate Change: Mitigation & Adaptation

‘Above normal’ conditions could bring as many as 10 hurricanes to the US this summer

8 months ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: A summary infographic showing hurricane season probability and numbers of named storms predicted, according to NOAA's 2024 Atlantic...

How To Talk to Your Kids About Scary Environmental Disasters

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Health

How To Talk to Your Kids About Scary Environmental Disasters

1 year ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image credit: Getty Images / Danielle Giarratano, SheKnows. Article by Elaine Roth, Claire Gillespie, Rebecca Rakowitz. SheKnows - January 10, 2025. There’s...

Trump Blames Migrants, Not the Climate Crisis, for FEMA Funding Issues

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Climate Change: Mitigation & Adaptation

Trump Blames Migrants, Not the Climate Crisis, for FEMA Funding Issues

1 year ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: St. Petersburg’s Shore Acres neighborhood on September 27, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Photo credit: Mike Carlson...

Members of the South Carolina's Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team (SC-HART) perform rescue operations in Port Arthur, Texas, August 31, 2017. [...] Multiple states and agencies nationwide were called to assist citizens impacted by the epic amount of rainfall in Texas and Louisiana from Hurricane Harvey. Photo credit: U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Daniel J. Martinez. Public Domain.

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Climate Change: Mitigation & Adaptation

Coastal cities’ growing hurricane vulnerability is fed by both climate change and unbridled population growth

1 year ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Members of the South Carolina's Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team (SC-HART) perform rescue operations in Port Arthur, Texas, August...

An AI dataset carves new paths to tornado detection

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Science & Technology

An AI dataset carves new paths to tornado detection

2 years ago Curated by John Wysocki

Photo caption: Mark Veillette (left) and James Kurdzo compiled TorNet, an open-source dataset containing thousands of radar images depicting tornadoes...