Hurricane

A community of nuns have donated their convent in New Orleans to create the Mirabeau Water Garden wetlands and improve the city's system for flood prevention. The transformation of the 25-acre Catholic convent is being developed by Waggonner & Ball and C…

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By Payton Tysinger, UNC-CHTHE ABACOS, BAHAMAS — Paul Pinder steps over the piles of sea grass and shattered pictures – what used to be the upscale Abaco Lodge – laughing as he tells of the amazing memories he made at the lodge where he worked as a fishing guide. It…

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In Fernandina Beach, Florida, an example of the widespread destruction caused by the hurricane of 1896 that devastated Atsena Otie Key. Credit: Florida Memory On September 29, 1896, the island of Atsena Otie Key was struck by a powerful hurricane. Located just off the coast of Cedar Key in the…

The Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys When Hurricane Irma roared towards the Florida Keys in 2017, the residents of Key West braced for impact of one of the most powerful storms in Florida’s history, this Category 5 hurricane. But at the last minute, the storm took a slight turn,…

In early September 2019, President Donald J. Trump tweeted something dumb. Specifically, this time it was about the encroaching Hurricane Dorian, and the places that it would or would not hit. In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia,…

(Bloomberg) -- Officials at U.S. weather agencies warned that fallout from the Trump administrations messaging on Hurricane Dorian in 2019 would politicize scientific agencies and undermine public trust in their information. You have no idea how hard Im figh…

By the end of the century, sea level rise could force 13 million people to move away from the U.S. coasts. But its not just the coasts that will be affectedso will the places where those migrants end up. In a study published last week in PLOS One, researche…

When Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida in September 2017, the Category 5 storm offered a team of wildlife researchers a first-ever opportunity to observe behavioral responses of white-tailed deer to an extreme weather event in real time. The data collec…