In the future, we could snuff out cyclones. But weather control comes with new risks
- Written by: Aaron Tang, PhD Scholar in Climate Governance, Australian National University
NASA, CC BYRight now, people in coastal China are fleeing successive typhoons. Parts of the Philippines are awash.
Typhoons are intense circular storms, which Australians know as tropical cyclones and Americans call hurricanes. Damage from cyclones has increased sevenfold since the 1980s, even as death tolls fell dramatically. In the 2010s,...
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