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Columbia Climate School

No Precedent

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Defoliated and uprooted trees in Puerto Rico's Toro Negro state forest following October 2017's Hurricane Maria. A new study shows that damage from the storm was not only worse than, but different from any previously documented event.

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Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute, Columbia University

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