How El Niño and La Niña climate patterns form
Learn how El Niño and La Niña climate patterns take shape and what the current El Niño could mean for winter weather in parts of the U.S.
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El Niño: What it is, how it devastates economies, and where it intersects with climate change
This research-based explainer looks at how El Niño stunts global and regional economic growth and what climatologists know about how climate change affects El Niño patterns.
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How tornadoes can exacerbate racial segregation in the US
In analyzing data from the 1970s through the 2010s, the authors of a recent paper explore how abandonment and displacement following a tornado can heighten racial segregation.
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Research reveals link between high pollen counts and low crime rates
New research reveals something unexpected about allergies: U.S. cities experiencing unusually high pollen counts also experience lower rates of reported violent crime.
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3 quick tips for debunking hoaxes in a hurricane
How to sort out what’s real and newsworthy from what’s fake as Hurricane Florence makes landfall in North Carolina.
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Climate change could uproot millions who live far from the sea
Two recent papers project how inland communities will be negatively affected by climate change and predict destabilizing migrations.
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Heat waves: Increasingly common, ever more deadly
As the planet warms, record-breaking heat waves have become a public health crisis in developing countries like India, where the heat has killed thousands in recent years.
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Predicting where seas are rising fastest
The seas are rising, but not like water in a bathtub. A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offers region-specific predictions for coastal inundation.
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Rich and poor, black and white: Moving after Gulf hurricanes
2016 study in Demography that looks at how economically advantaged groups are more likely to move to new homes in safer areas after a damaging hurricane.
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Covering hurricanes and tropical storms: Key resources for journalists
2016 tip sheet offering a list of weather-related resources to aid journalists in covering hurricanes and tropical storms.
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