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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Photo: Current Hurricane Amount at "Normal" Level, Study Says


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A team of divers drills a coral skeleton to collect a sample for study. A new method of looking at coral growth, along with the abundance of tiny fossils in sediment cores, has allowed scientists to reconstruct the past 270 years of hurricane history.

The findings, the scientists say, show that the recent uptick in hurricane number is just a return to normal levels after a long lull.Photograph courtesy J. Nyberg