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‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.
Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is set to release radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean – but the cause for concern is minimal.
Natural disasters cause billions in damage to ports around the world each year.
Research shows storms that might have caused minimal damage a few decades ago are becoming stronger and more destructive as the planet warms.
A team of scientists used unique tracking data to study how streaked shearwaters fly into typhoons strong enough to destroy houses.
Most of the flooded communities are Indigenous and rely on subsistence hunting that residents would normally be doing right now. Recovering from the damage will make that harder.
Land-falling tropical cyclones are rare in Tanzania so past events are outside the memory of most.
Misunderstanding disaster warnings can have catastrophic consequences for people who don’t speak the language used for emergency communications.
Talk of moving people out of Japan’s cities into rural areas is changing after the recent cyclone hit near Tokyo. Smarter, more connected cities may be a safer way to go.
Madagascar gets hit by an average of four cyclones each year but their full impact is still being tracked.
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Alaska Climate Specialist, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Professor of Environmental Science, University of Portsmouth
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Deputy Lead Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder
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Senior Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder
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Roger Revelle Professor of Climate Science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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Assistant Professor of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds
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PhD candidate, University of Leeds
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Research Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate at University of Florida, University of Florida
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Senior research fellow in cloud physics, University of Leeds
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Professor, School of Economic Policy Studies, Rikkyo University
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DPhil Student, University of Oxford
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Director of the Multidisciplinary Disaster and Risk Management Master’s programme, Université d’Antananarivo