Hurricanes Katrina and Rita showed the vulnerability of coastal communities and how
human activities that caused deterioration of the Mississippi Deltaic Plain (MDP) …

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-
date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they …

A brand new edition of the definitive textbook on humankind's impact on the Earth's
environment—now in full color This classic text explores the multitude of impacts that …

Since the early 1980s, episodes of coral reef bleaching and mortality, due primarily to
climate-induced ocean warming, have occurred almost annually in one or more of the …

Water masses can become undersaturated with oxygen when natural processes alone or in
combination with anthropogenic processes produce enough organic carbon that is …

Wind-generated ocean waves drive important coastal processes that determine flooding and
erosion. Ocean warming has been one factor affecting waves globally. Most studies have …

Abstract Rabalais, NN, Turner, RE, Díaz, RJ, and Justić, D. 2009. Global change and
eutrophication of coastal waters.–ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 1528–1537. The …

Tropical cyclones that rapidly intensify are typically associated with the highest forecast
errors and cause a disproportionate amount of human and financial losses. Therefore, it is …

Does the environment have a causal effect on economic development? Using
meteorological data, we reconstruct every country's exposure to the universe of tropical …

Changes in tropical cyclone activity are among the more potentially consequential results of
global climate change, and it is therefore of considerable interest to understand how …