The deadly plants gardeners and foragers should know about

This is just one of the grisly examples given in The Atlas Of Deadly Plants, a tome of toxic tales by expert gardener, ...

Melissa dissipates, leaves destruction and at least 50 dead in Caribbean

Melissa, one of the strongest storms on record to make landfall in the Caribbean, began to dissipate on Friday after sowing ...

Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of Melissa — a storm of historic ferocity — to gather life-saving data. But the ...

This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead. Climate change is putting it at risk

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak ...

Hurricane Hunters Found Something in Melissa’s Eye: Trapped Birds

The news “underscores the profound ecological toll that Hurricane Melissa will have on Jamaica’s biodiversity,” said one ...

The new face of major hurricanes

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

Scientists explain how Hurricane Melissa became a 'beast' among a string of monster Atlantic storms

When Melissa came ashore, it tied strength records for Atlantic hurricanes making landfall, both in wind speed and barometric ...
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Melissa is a beast among a string of monster Atlantic storms. Scientists explain

Hurricane Melissa, which struck Jamaica with record-tying 185 mph winds Tuesday, was a beast that stood out as extreme even ...