More Perfect Storms

Climate change + Biodiversity loss = disaster in Asia

by Sahlee Bugna-Barrer

Meteorologist used the term the Perfect storm to describe a rare combination of two powerful weather fronts and a hurricane that created the storm of historic proportions that hit the US in 1991. Since then it has been used to describe weather so extreme that they wreak maximum damage on people and the environment.

Tropical cyclones could become more intense when combined with sea level rise, this would result in an enhanced risk of loss of life and property in coastal low-lying areas in cycline-prone regions.

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