Two Virginia high school students have discovered how sea anemones respond to salinity changes caused by hurricane rainfall. As hurricanes worsen due to climate change, this important information ...

This storm is no longer being tracked. Fung-wong was a tropical depression in the Philippine Sea Thursday evening Taiwan time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its latest advisory. The New ...

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SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AP) — Hurricane Melissa left at least dozens dead amid widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged ...

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TAMPA, Fla. — Hurricane Melissa, a powerful, Category 5 storm, made landfall around 1 p.m. near New Hope, Jamaica, as the strongest storm to ever hit the island nation. As it continues its projected ...

Melissa will pass through the Bahamas on Wednesday afternoon. Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane -- one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the ...

The water around Jamaica had been simmering all summer. By the time Hurricane Melissa roared ashore Tuesday, that uber-warm Caribbean Sea had helped turn it into a monster: a Category 5 storm with ...

Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as a fierce Category 5 storm, making landfall Tuesday afternoon as one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. “This is an extremely dangerous ...