In 1955Hurricane Connieunleashed huge amounts of rain over upstate New York. Days later,Hurricane Dianeproduced modest damage along the coast, but caused extensive river flooding as it continued across New England. Although both of these storms made landfall in North Carolina, their impacts in the...
And naming and categorizing heat waves could increase public awareness of the health risks caused by these silent killers.”(命名和排名过程的一部分将包括准确定义什么是高温。目前还没有单一的定义。如果对热浪没有一个被普遍接受的定义,新小组的专家Aaron Bernstein说:“我们对所面临的危险没有一个共同的...
By the Numbers: Hurricane damage and recovery over the years A look at the numbers behind hurricane destruction, as hurricanes have caused the most death and damage of all weather disasters in our country's history. 5 months ago Airlines, cruises prepare for Hurricane Helene: Latest travel updat...
根据第一段For decades,climate scientists have named hurricanes and ranked them according to the damage. "Naming and categorizing(把……归类)heat waves is also a must," states a newly formed international union,called the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance. "Hurricanes get attention because they cause...
Many people are surprised to learn that Katrina's wind didn't cause most of the damage. The wind had caused levees in New Orleans to break, (Levees are embankments that hold water away from cities.) When the levees broke, water from the Gulf of Mexico rushed into the low-lying land. ...
Health facility damage or utility disruptions can result in patients and providers being trapped in hospitals that are suddenly rendered nonfunctional for prolonged periods (Bernard & Mathews, 2008; Ramme et al., 2015). In highly developed healthcare systems, loss of power may also result in...
Heat waves,however, have less evident effects, since the primary damage is to human health.Heat waves kill more people in the United States than any other weather-related disaster. Dat from the National Weather Service show that from 1986 to 2019, there were 4,257 deaths as a reaul of ...
Hurricane Katrina was one of the most widely studied hurricane events that landed in the United States. FIA mapped a higher severe zone on the right side of the track32 of Katrina, which coincides with this study (Figure 5a). This study also found most of the forest biomass damage occurred...
From the study, we know how they are related to humans' behaviour, and they can also have consequences(后果) for people living in these places.The study lists three root causes that affected most of the events in the report: human-caused greenhouse gas emissions(排放), shortage of disaster...
Modern geoengineers would operate differently. Today’s geoengineers are thinking about how to reverse the damage humans have already caused. 现代地球工程师的运作方式会有所不同。今天的地球工程师正在考虑如何扭转人类已经造成的损害。 Scientists in the field say one of the most promising ideas they se...