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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 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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