Researchers use new maps and statistical techniques to infer how armed conflict influenced land cover in the understudied Caribbean region of the country.
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Satellite Data Reveal Growth and Decline of Sargassum
High nutrient levels in 2018 resulted in a nearly 9,000-kilometer belt of Sargassum, a seaweed critical to many marine animals but also a nuisance when it washes up on shorelines, new results reveal.
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Weather-Induced Tsunami Waves Regularly Roll Up on U.S. Shores
Roughly 25 meteotsunamis strike coastlines between Maine and Puerto Rico each year, tide gauge data reveal.
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Project VoiLA: Volatile Recycling in the Lesser Antilles
Deep water cycle studies have largely focused on subduction of lithosphere formed at fast spreading ridges. However, oceanic plates are more likely to become hydrated as spreading rate decreases.
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Advancing Climate Science and Response for Caribbean Islands
Meeting of the Caribbean Climate Modelling Consortium; Kingston, Jamaica, 25 July 2018
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Nations Work Together to Size Up Caribbean Tsunami Hazards
An international collaboration is using historical records and modeling to assess tsunami potential in this high-risk region.
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Fossilized Caribbean Corals Reveal Ancient Summer Rains
Isotope records and climate modeling suggest that the rainy Intertropical Convergence Zone expanded northward into the southern Caribbean during a warm interglacial period about 125,000 years ago.
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Unprecedented Hurricane Season Sees Widespread Damage
This hurricane season has broken multiple records already.
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Caribbean Sediment Traced to 1755 Portuguese Quake and Tsunami
Archaeologists digging in Martinique chanced upon the first tsunami deposit from the earthquake found in the New World. The tsunami left a strong trace, it seems, because the wave went up a river.
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Hurricane Irma Tears Across Caribbean, Heads to South Florida
Florida residents prepare for potentially catastrophic winds and flooding.