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Backgrounder: How Hurricanes Get Their Names

(July 23) -- The World Meteorological Organization has prepared six alphabetized lists of names for Atlantic storms (storms in other oceans have separate, rotating lists), and at the end of the six-year cycle, the lists repeat. However, if a given storm produces significant damage or loss of life, its name is retired from...

Study Says Global Warming Means Stronger Hurricanes

WASHINGTON (Feb. 21) - Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun. Since just before...