As hundreds of people stood in line for food and many went hungry during the days and weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Walmart Inc. and local supermarkets threw out tons of spoiled meat, ...

Hurricane Melissa tore off roofs and stripped trees of their leaves, including in many parts of Jamaica hit by Hurricane Beryl a year earlier. Ricardo Makyn/AFP via Getty Images Jamaica was still ...

I don’t use or visit Facebook much these days. Maybe I shouldn’t have peeked in there after Hurricane Melissa. An old acquaintance of mine decided to compare the impacts and resulting death toll of ...

Across Jamaica, streets are littered with torn-off roofs, splintered wood and other debris left in the wake of Hurricane Melissa. Downed power lines have left communities in the dark, and many flooded ...

One by one, new pilings are being installed as the City of Anna Maria Island works to build back the city pier, which has been closed since Hurricanes Helene and Milton caused damage to the pier and ...

At The Root, we don’t employ a psychologist or a psychiatrist (although Michael Harriot serves as the senior wypipoloigist on staff), so we are unable to assess the president’s mental health.

Set against a Puerto Rico still reeling from the devastation of Hurricane María, Raisa Bonnet’s debut feature “Braided” (“Trenzadas”) brings a ground-level perspective to a national trauma whose ...

Hurricane Maria shredded the electric poles in the plantain farming town of Corozal high in the mountains of central Puerto Rico, leaving tens of thousands of people without power or running water.