Over the last 40 years, oceans have absorbed about 90% of the warming caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.

Gathering data from planes inside hurricanes is a dangerous game and 52 lives have been lost since operations began in 1944.

Catastrophic situation unfolding as Hurricane Melissa threatens Jamaica with days of intense destructive winds and heavy ...

Melissa tied the 1935 record for the most intense hurricane to make landfall when it battered Jamaica on Tuesday, according ...

Hurricane Melissa’s explosive growth into a Category 5 storm exposes how climate change is driving faster, stronger, and ...

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as the strongest storm — and only Category 5 hurricane — ever recorded ...

Hurricane hunters encountered severe turbulence during a flight into Hurricane Melissa, prompting a mandatory return for inspection.

Hurricane Melissa followed what has unfortunately become a pattern for major storms: It formed late in the season, ...

NWS meteorologists at the Anchorage, Alaska, office issued a hurricane-force wind warning in the early morning hours on ...

Scientists call this “rapid intensification”. As the planet warms, this violent strengthening is becoming more common. These ...

According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and ...

Hurricane Melissa ties 1935 Labor Day Hurricane as the most intense landfall storm, battering Jamaica amid rising climate ...