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To whom it may concern: 300-year-old letters reveal hurricanes’ long-term rise
The number of storms in the south Indian Ocean has spiked since 1940, alongside a local increase in seawater temperatures.
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In India, sacred groves are helping resurrect a near-extinct forest ecosystem
Botanists and community stewards from Auroville, Tamil Nadu, are using scattered patches of native forest as a blueprint to revive the tropical dry evergreen forest ecosystems of coastal India.
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Stormier seas keep fishers on shore
As climate change fuels more extreme weather, fishers in western Madagascar and around the world are facing shrinking opportunities to fish.
Drought study on Madagascar underlines complexity of climate change
Low rainfall has caused a humanitarian crisis in Madagascar, but common assumptions about drought didn’t hold up to scrutiny.
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A million years of data confirms: Monsoons are likely to get worse
The annual summer monsoon in South Asia begins this month. A new study points to more destructive storms.
The world’s climate catastrophe worsens amid the pandemic
While countries went on lockdown, the Arctic caught on fire.
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Climate change may kickstart dormant El Niño weather system in Indian Ocean
An El Niño-like weather system that has been dormant for millennia in the Indian Ocean could be kick-started due to climate change, according to new research.
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