A Hurricane Watch is up for the south coast of Haiti and a Tropical Storm Watch for Jamaica for Tropical Storm Melissa, which had not yet strengthened as of midday Wednesday. The storm was crawling ...

Imagine you’re at a dinner party organized by an ecologist who wants to help you understand how the food you’re eating is connected to the larger world. That’s the experience of reading “The Blue ...

Tropical Storm Melissa has already brought death and destruction to the Caribbean, as the nearly stationary tropical storm begins to intensify. Melissa claimed its first fatality on Thursday night, ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in the eastern Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba, about 40 miles (65 km) west of Santiago de Cuba – the country’s second most populous city — at 3:10 a.m. EDT Oct. 29 ...

Blended visible/infrared satellite image of Hurricane Melissa at 0730Z (3:30 a.m. EDT) Sunday, October 26, 2025. (Image credit: NOAA Satellites) As predicted and feared, Hurricane Melissa has become a ...

Eye of Hurricane Melissa on Oct. 27, 2025, when it was a Category 5 storm with 175 mph winds and a central pressure of 906 mb. Image credit: @FlynonymousWX, Air Force Hurricane Hunters. Pressure down ...

Community advocates on the South Side of Chicago are transforming nine acres of abandoned, once-polluted land into the Green Era Campus – a hub for urban agriculture and renewable energy. Erika Allen ...

‘Tis the season for haunted houses and horror movies. But for Brendan Haley of Efficiency Canada, what’s truly scary is the idea of people struggling to pay their energy bills. So two years ago for ...

13) Unnamed, Aug. 31, 1933: Bahamas (Mayaguana), 160 mph, pressure unknown 13) Unnamed, Sep. 5, 1932: Bahamas (Abaco), 160 mph, pressure unknown 13) San Filipe Hurricane, Sep. 28, 1928: Puerto Rico, ...

In many rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, mothers give birth in health care centers that lack reliable electricity. So midwives and doctors often deliver babies in near darkness. Muhwezi: “They’re ...

Visible satellite image of Melissa at 2 p.m. EDT Oct. 25, 2025. (Image credit: NOAA) Tropical Storm Melissa became Hurricane Melissa at 2 p.m. EDT Saturday, October 25, kicking off what’s expected to ...

Scientists who work in Svalbard, Norway, in the high Arctic know it’s one of the fastest-warming places on Earth. And yet James Bradley of the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography says he was still ...