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Soaring temperature creating more frequent and deadly Asian typhoons

2016-09-06 01:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Zee: Ocean storms across East and South east Asia will become more intense and destructive in the coming years due to spike in ocean warming, according to a latest study. Researchers at the University of South Carolinas (USC) Department of Marine Sciences found that the deadly super typhoons has intensified by 50% in the last 40 years due to climate change. The theory, outlined in Nature Geoscience, highlights that warmer sea temperature provides more fuel to the typhoons that would wreck havoc on...

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Warming strengthens typhoons that batter Asian coast

2016-09-05 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: Batten down the hatches. Typhoons pummelling the coastlines of east and South-East Asia have become more destructive in the past 40 years, and are likely to intensify further because of climate change. The region has recently suffered some of the world's most devastating typhoons, including Haiyan, which killed 6340 people in 2013, and Morakot which killed 789 in 2009, both in the Philippines. A new study reveals that, on average, typhoons hitting the region have increased in intensity by 14...

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Asian typhoons becoming more intense, study finds

2016-09-05 17:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

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...

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RetailNext expands Asian footprint with EDBI investment

2016-08-25 16:21:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

US-based e-commerce analytics company RetailNext is set to continue its expansion into the Asia-Pacific region after securing investment from Singapore-based EDBI, the corporate investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board.

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