This paper evaluates whether mangroves can mitigate the impact of hurricanes on economic activity. The paper assembles a new, regionwide panel data set that measures local economic activity using nightlights, potential hurricane damages using a detailed hurricane windstorm model, and mangrove protection by mapping the width of mangrove forests on …
NEW ORLEANS: Strong winds and rain began to lash the Gulf Coast early Monday as Hurricane Gustav continued its path toward the coast of Louisiana, where the center of the storm was expected to make landfall around midday. Nearly two million people from Texas to Alabama fled the coast on …
NEW ORLEANS: Hurricane Gustav sent strong winds and lashing rains into New Orleans early on Monday, but the storm lost some of its power and was expected to move ashore to the west, sparing the city its full force. Gustav weakened to a category 2 hurricane shortly before making landfall, …
P. Sainath Gustav, of course, is non-political. What follows Gustav will be anything but that. Clouds from hurricane Gustav approaching New Orleans. Gustav brings back memories of Katrina
By STACEY PLAISANCE and BECKY BOHRER NEW ORLEANS Sept. 1: With a historic evacuation of nearly 2 million people from the Louisiana coast complete, gun-toting police and National Guardsmen stood watch as rain started to fall on this city
By Tim Gaynor and Matthew Bigg New Orleans Sept. 1: Hurricane Gustav barged ashore on the US Gulf Coast west of New Orleans on Monday, hammering the city devastated by Katrina in 2005 with surging floodwaters that threatened its rebuilt levees. The storm was weaker than feared. But waves splashed …
When Pamela Pipes fled New Orleans for Houston at the weekend with her dog and vital papers, she contrasted the orderly lines of people boarding trains and buses out of the city with the chaos of Hurricane Katrina three years ago. Then, many ignored government calls to leave and were …
When Pamela Pipes fled New Orleans for Houston at the weekend with her dog and vital papers, she contrasted the orderly lines of people boarding trains and buses out of the city with the chaos of Hurricane Katrina three years ago. Then, many ignored government calls to leave and were …
Hurricane Gustav swept across the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, forcing the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, the shutdown of offshore oil production and the cancellation of most of the programme on the first day of the Republican convention. About 1.9m residents of coastal Louisiana, including 200,000 from New Orleans, had …
Restaurant chains must now list the calorie content of the food they sell IN JANUARY New York became the first American city to pass a law requiring restaurant chains to state the number of calories in everything on their menus, right down to the last pretzel. Full enforcement of the …
A new tropical depression formed over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and threatened to become the eighth storm of the already busy 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, the US National Hurricane Center said. "The depression will likely become a tropical storm later (Thursday) and could reach hurricane intensity within three days," …
Hurricane Gustav barreled toward vulnerable Haiti on Tuesday and could become the first major storm to threaten US oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico since the devastating 2005 hurricane season. The seventh storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season had top sustained winds of 90 mph (145 …
Using projected boundary conditions for the end of the twenty-first century, the frequency of Atlantic tropical cyclones and hurricanes in a regional climate model of the Atlantic basin is reduced compared with observed boundary conditions at the end of the twentieth century. This is inconsistent with the idea that higher …
A major modelling study forecast that warming of the north Atlantic could make hurricanes scarcer - while the worst ones might have stronger winds and produce more rain. Thomas Knutson and colleagues from NASA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, have previously produced a remarkably accurate year-by-year "hindcast" …
Studies suggest that tropical cyclones are becoming more powerful with the most dramatic increase in the North Atlantic. The increase is correlated with an increase in ocean temperature. A debate concerns the nature of these increases with some studies attributing them to natural climate fluctuations, and others suggesting climate change …
A recent study conducted on the stunted growth of mangrove vegetation in the Sundarbans spells doom for Kolkata and parts of south Bengal in the event of a major storm like hurricane Sidr. The study comprising compilation of data regarding salinity, tidal amplitude, turbidity coupled with quantum of dissolved oxygen …
