Tandem heatwaves, storm surges increasingly batter coasts: study

Paris (AFP) April 11, 2024

Coastal communities need to prepare for simultaneous extreme weather events as heatwaves increasingly overlap with surges in sea levels due to climate change, a study published on Thursday warned. Extreme heat and sea levels are typically monitored and studied individually but researchers from Hong Kong Polytechnic University found they were occurring simultaneously - a phenomenon that cou