Hurricanes
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Climate change is causing hurricanes that make landfall to take more time to weaken, reports a study just published in Nature.
The researchers showed that hurricanes that develop over warmer oceans carry more moisture and therefore stay stronger for longer after hitting land. This means that in the future, as the world continues to warm, hurricanes are more likely to reach communities farther inland and be more destructive.