Recent research suggests climate change could supercharge swings between quiet years and hyperactive seasons packed with dangerous storms.

Hurricane Melissa has cut a path of destruction through the Caribbean this week, hitting Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas with winds of up to 185mph. Aid groups are still working to assess the full extent of the damage brought by the storm, with more than 30 ...

Hurricane Melissa has intensified into a Category 4 hurricane, and could develop further to become a Category 5 as it approaches Jamaica, according to the National Hurricane Center. The hurricane is likely to bring life-threatening flash flooding and ...

In August, 2005, Anand Irimpen, a cardiologist and a professor at Tulane University, evacuated New Orleans during the approach of Hurricane Katrina. He and his family watched it make landfall from a hotel room in Dallas. “The storm passed by and I was ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Hurricane Melissa continues to maintain its strength as a monster Category 5 hurricane in the final hours before an expected catastrophic landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday. On Monday evening, The Ministry of Health & Wellness in Jamaica ...

Submerged aquatic vegetation, vital for the St. Johns River's ecosystem, has been largely absent since Hurricane Irma in 2017. Factors like increased salinity, sea-level rise, and storm-related turbidity have prevented the grasses from recovering.

What follows in the wake of tropical cyclones—strong, rotating storms that start above tropical oceans? Many people likely imagine destruction, if not even death. Hurricane Katrina, for example, was a tropical cyclone. New research, however, highlights a ...

Scientists are exploring the use of tagged sharks as mobile ocean sensors to collect critical data for hurricane research and environmental studies. “Satellites, remote sensing, things like that only look at the surfaces of the ocean,