Are We Making Bigger Hurricanes?
Fresh from surveying the detritus of storms past, our Kiri blogger reviews the case for and against human action making tropical storms bigger and more destructive.
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Can Hurricanes Be Predicted Decades in Advance?
The rapidly growing field of paleotempestology lays the foundation for reliable hurricane predictions a decade or more into the future.
Hurricanes Enter the Offshore Oil Drilling Debate
The nation's energy system got off easy from Hurricane Ike. There's no guarantee that will be true from future storms.
The Grass Floodwall: Gustav Highlights Need for Wetlands
Mother Nature needs to be allowed to protect New Orleans from ... Mother Nature.
Forecasters Work to Avoid Next New Orleans
As weather patterns are likely to change with the climate, a national NOAA project centers on gathering meteorological data both before and during significant storms to create precision forecasts that researchers hope will allow us up to a week's notice.
A Take on Earth’s Temperature, Post-Bali
A round-up of research taken in the wake of the Bali summit on climate change finds little to warm the heart with the one exception that Atlantic hurricanes may grow more numerous but less fierce.