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Hurricane-Related Deaths Keep Happening Long After a Storm Ends
Indirect fatalities from tropical cyclones can persist up to 15 years after a catastrophic weather event, according to a new study.
By Victoria St. Martin
The raging winds and relentless rains of Hurricane Harvey—which pinwheeled through Houston in 2017, obliterating homes, shattering livelihoods and killing 36 people in the area—had long subsided when Chrishelle Palay and her family experienced yet another loss.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.