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Tag: Atlantic Ocean

  • NATURE: Ferocity of Atlantic hurricanes surges as the ocean warms

    NATURE: Ferocity of Atlantic hurricanes surges as the ocean warms

    Climate change sharply intensified almost 85% of hurricanes that hit the North Atlantic between 2019 and 2023, according to a modelling study1. The wind speed of those hurricanes rose by an average of nearly 30 kilometres per hour — enough to have pushed 30 storms up a level on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity.

  • EOS: Reactive Barriers Could Keep Nitrate out of the Atlantic

    EOS: Reactive Barriers Could Keep Nitrate out of the Atlantic

    About 74% of residents in Long Island, N.Y., discharge wastewater into septic tanks and cesspools instead of into a sewer, alllowing nitrate to seep into the region’s coastal aquifer. A mulch-filled trench dug along the coastline, called a permeable reactive barrier (PRB), can neutralize up to 100% of the nitrate before it reaches the ocean.