Flooding from Hurricane Helene in Asheville, NC, Friday, September 28, 2024 As desperate and traumatized residents of Western North Carolina have learned over the past week, everything Americans thought they knew about storm threats must n...
Do western university leaders like those in Darmstadt really think Iranian university graudates are magnitudes better than those in the rest of the world, because of Aryan genetics or superior theological education by the Revolutionary Guards? Or do they understand exactly what’s going on, but see...
. In the southern Chesapeake Bay region and across North Carolina, these rates are among the fastest in the southeast5,6. This contributes to an accelerated increase in storm surge flood risk7,8,9and can result in tidal flooding, impair drainage systems, and increase reliance on engineered flo...
Scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) published a study today inNature Climate Changeshowing that besides marine inundation (flooding), low-lying coastal areas may also be vulnerable to "groundwater inundation," a factor largely unrecognized in earlier predictions on the effects of...
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