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More frequent and intense tropical storms mean less recovery time for the world's coastlines

  • Written by Hans Paerl, Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
More frequent and intense tropical storms mean less recovery time for the world's coastlinesMore frequent coastal storms are stressing ecosystems like these North Carolina marshes.PumpkinSky/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Tropical cyclones – storms that bring strong, rotating winds and rain, and which can intensify into hurricanes or typhoons – affect coastal regions around the world. Our research team, centered at the University of...

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