Climate Central: In the Northwest Pacific, already a hotspot for tropical cyclones, the storms that strike East and Southeast Asia have been intensifying more than those that stay out at sea over the last four decades, a new study finds.
The proportion of landfalling storms that reach Category 4 or 5 strength -- the storms that wreak the most damage, as recent examples like 2013's devastating Super Typhoon Haiyan show -- has doubled and even tripled in some areas of the basin, researchers found. The increases...