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Aug 30, 2020
NPR - NPR's Michel Martin speaks with climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about how climate change can make natural disasters, including Hurricane Laura and the wildfires in California, more severe.
Aug 27, 2020
Seven faculty members have been awarded Faculty C-Startup Grants.
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Aug 27, 2020
Researchers from Texas Tech University deployed StickNet platforms to measure wind speeds in hopes to better understand and prepare for future storms.
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Aug 26, 2020
Washington Post - Across the United States, there are signs of climate disaster. In California, two of the worst wildfires in the state’s history took place simultaneously, scorching more than a million acres of land, including a beloved forested national park. On the Gulf Coast, residents of Louisiana and Texas braced for an unprecedented double-hurricane event churned up by exceptionally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico — the first luckily petered out at sea, but the second, Tropical Storm Laura, is predicted to make landfall late Wednesday after leading to deadly floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.