The Gulf states live with a familiar tension each storm season: the clock ticks, the cone of uncertainty shifts, and families weigh impossible choices that include the quiet stare of a dog or the trembling tuck of a cat’s paws. In recent years, faster-changing forecasts and rapid intensification have squeezed evacuation windows, raising the stakes ...
Each hurricane season sweeps in with the same uneasy question: what will still be there when the skies clear? Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, storms do more than scatter debris and flood streets; they redraw the edges of the continent, sometimes in ways that last far beyond a news cycle. Scientists now treat hurricanes ...
Hurricanes have always been a force of nature, but in a warming world, their behavior is becoming less predictable and potentially more destructive. Over the past four decades, hurricanes have inflicted $1.5 trillion in economic losses in the U.S. alone, accounting for more than half of all weather-related damages. While coastal development and economic growth ...
Marine science has always been full of surprises. Yet few discoveries have been as unexpected as the connection between whale migrations and storm forecasting. When researchers first noticed patterns in whale movement data that seemed to predict atmospheric changes, it sounded almost too fantastic to be true. Today, this revolutionary approach is transforming how we ...
