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Asia's typhoons have become more intense and frequent

2016-09-06 08:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Overall, landfalling Asian typhoon intensity has increased by about 12 percent in nearly four decades. But the change is most noticeable for storms with winds of 209 kilometers per hour or more (130 mph), those in categories 4 and 5. Since 1977, they've gone from a once-a-year occurrence to four times a year, according to a study Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. These are storms like Lionrock that in August killed at least 17 people, about half of them elderly residents of a Japanese nursing...

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