Guardian: The destructive power of the typhoons that wreak havoc across China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines has intensified by 50% in the past 40 years due to warming seas, a new study has found.
The researchers warn that global warming will lead the giant storms to become even stronger in the future, threatening the large and growing coastal populations of those nations.
It is a very, very substantial increase, said Prof Wei Mei, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the...