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Christmas tree farmers in western North Carolina are still rebuilding from last year’s devastating Hurricane Helene, but growers are optimistic about business and the overall strength…

Farm worker Owen Salmon has picked apples in upstate New York for almost a decade, some 1,500 miles (2,400km) from home. In the midst of harvest…

British MPs have joined campaigners calling for more aid and humanitarian visas for Jamaicans to enter the UK after Hurricane Melissa demolished parts of the country,…

Staten Island, July @UncleJesse85 via Storyful This is what rain can do in New York City. In July, Jessica Louise Dye was on the subway when…

November 21, 20253 min readHurricane Melissa’s 252-mph Gust Sets New Wind RecordHurricane Melissa raged as a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean last month—and now scientists…

When then Tropical Storm Melissa was churning south of Haiti, Philippe Papin, a National Hurricane Center (NHC) meteorologist, had confidence it was about to grow into…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re mainly going to focus on one major story from last week:…

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Fueled by unusually warm waters, Hurricane Melissa this week turned into…

Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba this week as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record. A new analysis finds that warming…

October 30, 20253 min readHurricane Melissa Was So Strong That It Shook the Earth Hundreds of Miles AwaySeismometers picked up the ferocious winds and waves of…