Hurricane Wipes 11-Acre Hawaiian Island Off The Map
Satellite photos show only a few slivers of land where Hawaii's East Island once was.
Oct 26, 2018
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Satellite photos taken this month show only a few slivers of land where Hawaii’s 11-acre East Island once stood.
Hurricane Walaka, which wiped the island off the map, was just the latest powerful storm in an unusually intense Pacific hurricane season. Climate scientists say a warming ocean could be to blame.
, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii who visited the
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