The Environment

Hurricane Melissa’s rare intensity and lasting impact reveal how storms are evolving in a warming world.

Seismometers picked up the ferocious winds and waves of Hurricane Melissa, showing how the tools can be used to better understand storms today and those from the past

Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new designation for monster storms?

These images of Hurricane Melissa show the Category 5 storm in all its power

A nearly perfect alignment of factors has enabled Hurricane Melissa to become one of the most intense Atlantic storms ever recorded

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa’s exceptional strength and slow pace could make it more destructive than Hurricane Gilbert, which hit Jamaica in 1988

This is only the second time we’ve had more than two Category 5 storms in a single Atlantic hurricane season

Bird flu surges and a government shutdown collide, complicating efforts to track cases and protect flocks.

Melissa is a Category 5 major hurricane and moving relatively slow—a brutal combination that will drench some parts of Jamaica with up to 40 inches of rain

Wood vaulting, a simple, low-tech approach to storing carbon, has the potential to remove 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year—and some companies are already trying it

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread coral reef bleaching and death around the world

If you want to know where the best leaf peeping will be this year, climate science and weather can provide the answer