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Japan’s Deadly Typhoon Rains Have Left 2 Million Ready to Evacuate

Throughout western and central Japan, rains are terrorizing entire villages and triggering deadly landslides. At least four people have already died, and authorities ordered another roughly 210,000 people to evacuate their homes as of Friday. Another two million people are being advised to follow suit. Pacific typhoon season has begun, and it’s bringing “historic” rainfall…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes Jul 6

Giant Clam Shells May Help Predict Future Tropical Storms

To understand how our warming oceans impact tropical cyclones, scientists need more information about storm patterns during the past. Unfortunately, a reliable historical record of these storms doesn’t extend all that far back—not even two centuries. Now a team of researchers thinks giant clam shells could help fill in some of the gaps. Tridacna maxima…

Earth Science Jake Buehler Jun 18

Hurricanes Aren’t Moving as Fast as They Used to, and That’s Bad

The pace at which hurricanes move across the planet is slowing, according to new research. This suggests Hurricane Harvey, which stalled over Texas last summer, may not have been an anomaly, and that highly destructive, slow-moving tropical storms are becoming more common. The reason Hurricane Harvey was so bad? It got stuck. Harvey dumped more…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jun 6

Massive Storms Can Change the Shape of the Planet

Contrary to popular opinion, the Earth is not in fact a round boy nor is it solid rock. It’s a lumpy horror show that can be squished and stretched by relatively weak forces. Recent findings published in Geophysical Research Letters show that rain associated with tropical cyclones can put a dent in our doughy planet,…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Jan 18

New Wind Turbines Could Power Japan for 50 Years After a Single Typhoon

Typhoons are generally associated with mass destruction, but a Japanese engineer has developed a wind turbine that can harness the tremendous power of these storms and turn it into useful energy. If he’s right, a single typhoon could power Japan for 50 years. Atsushi Shimizu is the inventor of the world’s first typhoon turbine—an extremely…

Tech News George Dvorsky Sep 28

Inflatable Moon and a Typhoon Joined Forces to Destroy This City

As typhoon Meranti inches closer to China, the category 5 tropical cyclone could produce 230 mile per hour winds causing untold millions in damage. And to make matters even worse, it has apparently now joined forces with the moon in the city of Fuzhou to wreak even more havoc. https://gizmodo.com/why-the-full-moon-could-make-this-weekends-blizzard-eve-1754301233 It’s well known that the…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Sep 14

We’ve Never Seen This Many Massive Storms on the Pacific at Once

It was a historic moment in meteorology late last week, when three Category 4 storms were simultaneously spotted marching across the Pacific. As if that wasn’t ominous enough, a tropical depression has just added itself to the mix. Yesterday, NASA’s GOES satellite captured this beautifully ominous image (below) of one typhoon (Kilo), one hurricane (Jimena),…

Tech News Maddie Stone Sep 3

A Rare Cross-Sectional View of a Super Typhoon

Atsani is the the sixth super typhoon to make an appearance during the 2015 West Pacific Tropical Season, which already surpassed the normal average of four. Prior to achieving its super status, CloudSat’s imager collected information about the storm, allowing for this incredible cross-sectional view. Atsani’s current trajectory puts it on a collision course with…

io9 George Dvorsky Aug 21

Watch the Incredible Force of a Typhoon Move a Skyscraper’s 720-Ton Mass Damper

Mass dampers are designed to counteract the swaying of a skyscraper as it’s buffeted by strong winds or earthquakes. But it’s incredibly rare to see one of these huge devices moving more an a few inches. Unless, of course, there’s a typhoon nearby. As the deadly Typhoon Soudelor swept across Taiwan and eastern China last…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 12

Super Typhoon Vongfong Has Erupted Into The Biggest Storm Of 2014

Over the course of 24 hours, Typhoon Vongfong rapidly strengthened from a Category 3 to Category 5. With sustained winds approaching 170 mph (272 km/h), the storm is heading straight towards Japan — a country still reeling from Typhoon Phanfone. GIF: NOAA Vongfong is the strongest tropical cyclone of the year, and the strongest since…

io9 George Dvorsky Oct 8

Murders, Tsunamis, Bus Singing: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Why were so many people shot in Chicago last weekend? Does today’s earthquake in Japan mean another Fukushima meltdown? And why does Winnipeg want to fine people $100 for singing in public? These are the questions we address in this week’s edition of What’s Ruining Our Cities. Murders are ruining Chicago Chicago’s murder rate has…

Tech News Alissa Walker Jul 11

Drone Video Shows Shocking Extent of Typhoon Damage in Philippines

It’s been a little over a week since the Philippines was rocked by Typhoon Hiyan, but the world is still coming to grips with the extent of the devastation. This sobering video of Tacloban taken by an aerial drone shows it’s worse than we could have possibly imagined. CNN’s Karl Penhaul reports from Tacloban, the…

io9 George Dvorsky Nov 19

Welcome to the Age of the Superstorm

Almost exactly one year after Hurricane Sandy hit the U.S. eastern seaboard, the strongest typhoon in recorded history has slammed into the Philippines. That’s two superstorms in two years. It’s the new normal, folks — and climate change is likely to blame. https://gizmodo.com/is-frankenstorm-the-result-of-climate-change-scientist-5955609 “Super Typhoon” Haiyan swept through the Philippines last night. Officials haven’t been…

io9 George Dvorsky Nov 8

A ‘super typhoon’ is about to smash into East Asia

It’s called Super Typhoon Usagi — and it’s picking up serious steam as it churns away in the western Pacific Ocean. Now the equivalent of a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, it’s poised to hit some of the most densely populated regions in the world, including Taiwan, the northern Philippines, and Hong Kong. A “super typhoon”…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 20

Typhoon Talas Kills 47 In Japan, 450,000 People Evacuated

Japan can’t catch a break. It’s not right. After dealing with a 9.0 earthquake earlier this year, they just got swarmed by Typhoon Talas, a tropical storm that was just as bad as Hurricane Irene. These are the pictures of the aftermath. https://jezebel.com/the-complete-japan-crisis-timeline-live-updates-5780998 A typhoon is like a hurricane but happens in the Northwest Pacific…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 6

Japanese Inventor Wants to Destroy Typhoons With Submarines

Typhoons are a deadly problem along eastern Asia, killing dozens yearly. Their lifeblood? Warm ocean water. Which is exactly what Japanese inventor Koichi Kitamura wants to fix, with subs that would pump cold water to the surface, killing storms dead. When seas are between 77 and 79 degrees Fahrenheit, typhoons are able to grow in,…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 27

Could changing the ocean’s color wipe out most hurricanes?

The oceans aren’t really blue – thanks to chlorophyll-producing plankton, the ocean has a greenish tint. Now scientists have evidence that making the oceans truly blue could reduce hurricanes and typhoons by up to 70 percent. If you remove from the ocean all the microscopic phytoplankton, which harvest chlorophyll from sunlight, then the sunlight would…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 16

Japan’s Deadly Typhoon Rains Have Left 2 Million Ready to Evacuate

Giant Clam Shells May Help Predict Future Tropical Storms

Hurricanes Aren’t Moving as Fast as They Used to, and That’s Bad

Massive Storms Can Change the Shape of the Planet

New Wind Turbines Could Power Japan for 50 Years After a Single Typhoon

Inflatable Moon and a Typhoon Joined Forces to Destroy This City

We’ve Never Seen This Many Massive Storms on the Pacific at Once

A Rare Cross-Sectional View of a Super Typhoon

Watch the Incredible Force of a Typhoon Move a Skyscraper’s 720-Ton Mass Damper

Super Typhoon Vongfong Has Erupted Into The Biggest Storm Of 2014

Murders, Tsunamis, Bus Singing: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Drone Video Shows Shocking Extent of Typhoon Damage in Philippines

Welcome to the Age of the Superstorm

A ‘super typhoon’ is about to smash into East Asia

Typhoon Talas Kills 47 In Japan, 450,000 People Evacuated

Japanese Inventor Wants to Destroy Typhoons With Submarines

Could changing the ocean’s color wipe out most hurricanes?

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