Hurricane season is getting longer. Building higher sea walls won’t save us.
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Washington Postreported that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is considering officially moving up the start of the storm season from June 1 to May 15. The move, being reviewed by the NOAA’s National Hurricane Office in Miami, is the result of experts coming to the conclusion that, as global temperatures have consistently risen, so too have the frequency of pre-June storms.
According to the
Post, the past six years have featured tropical storms forming before the official season start date, with last year’s Tropical Storm Arthur announced by the NOAA on May 16. By season’s end in December, 2020 ranked as the most active hurricane season in 15 years with 30 storms topping the 28-storm mark set by 2005.
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WASHINGTON, March 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The single largest ecosystem restoration project in U.S. history crossed a major milestone today when the Army Corps of Engineers released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion. The proposed project will reconnect the Mississippi River to its wetlands to build and maintain tens of thousands of acres of land in the Barataria Basin, which is experiencing one of the highest rates of land loss on the planet.
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