Mass Destruction (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Mass Destruction

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Researchers survey damage to a forest plot following hurricanes Irma and Maria. Uprooting of trees in many cases may have had more to do more with rain than wind.

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Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute

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