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Climate disasters are ravaging government budgets – aid works best when paid upfront

When a cyclone destroyed Chompa Munda’s home in coastal Bangladesh in 2019, she and her son went days without food. When the next one came in 2024, her phone lit up hours before it made landfall.

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Dolly Parton died, next Atlantic storm could share her name. Here’s why

The next Atlantic tropical storm will be named Dolly, following established naming procedures. Forecasters are monitoring a system off Africa which may strengthen into a named storm. This season is predicted to have below-average storm activity due to El Nino. Storm names are chosen for ease of pronunciation and familiarity…

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The trauma after the storm: Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of emotional devastation across Jamaica

Experts are calling for the integration of mental health into climate-disaster policy in the Caribbean as studies show that PTSD risks increase after hurricanes and displacement

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Hunger and makeshift shelters persist in north Caribbean nearly 2 months after Hurricane Melissa

The Atlantic hurricane season may be over

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Hurricane Melissa: Fuel queues for days, diseases spreading and thousands homeless one month on from devastation

IN FOCUS: ‘It’s like everything was cut with blades,’ says a Red Cross official about the wasteland left in the wake of the ‘storm of the century’. Maira Butt reports on the situation

The Independent UK

UK MPs push for extra aid and visas as Jamaica reels from Hurricane Melissa

Dawn Butler leads calls for humanitarian visas and fee waivers for vulnerable relatives of UK nationals affected by storm

The Guardian - UK

As Trump cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings

Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica in late October, killed dozens in Haiti and forced nearly three-quarters of a million Cubans to evacuate. The death toll across the region is still unknown – but Melissa will go down as one of the strongest storms ever recorded.

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How climate finance to help poor countries became a global shell game – donors have counted fossil fuel projects, airports and even ice cream shops

When Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean in October 2025, it left a trail of destruction. The Category 5 storm damaged buildings in Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba, snapped power lines and cut off entire neighborhoods from hospitals and aid.

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Satellite captures destructive power of Hurricane Melissa | Space photo of the day for Nov. 17, 2025

The image shows the difference in temperature between the top of a hurricane and the bottom.

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Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies

Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say

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No time to recover: Hurricane Melissa and the Caribbean’s compounding disaster trap as the storms keep coming

Headlines have been filled with talk of the catastrophic power of Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm devastated communities across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti in October 2025. But to see this as a singular disaster misses the bigger picture: Melissa didn’t hit stable, resilient islands. It hit islands still…

The Conversation

Jamaica tallies losses from Hurricane Melissa as more than 2 dozen communities remain cut off

Officials in Jamaica say that Hurricane Melissa ripped the roofs off 120,000 structures when it struck last week, affecting some 90,000 families in the island’s western region

The Independent UK

Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba

Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared towards Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated – one in every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and…

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‘We need help’: devastated Jamaican communities still await aid after Hurricane Melissa

Ravaged communities near Montego Bay recount what last week’s category 5 storm took from them

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Climate crisis means super-strength Hurricane Melissa is ‘dangerous new reality’

Winds of Melissa’s strength are now five times more frequent due to the climate crisis, research says

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Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds

An analysis from World Weather Attribution reports human-caused climate change intensified the winds and rainfall unleashed by Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean

The Independent UK

Hurricane Melissa victims face new threat as death toll rises again

Crews are still trying to reach more than two dozen communities that remain cut off since Melissa made landfall

The Independent UK

Scores dead, thousands homeless and billions in damage: The bleak numbers that reveal Hurricane Melissa’s scale of destruction

One week after the category 5 ‘Storm of the Century’ first hit the Caribbean, residents have been left picking up the pieces. Olivia Ireland and Alex Croft report on the sizeable task ahead

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Satellite images show parts of Jamaica in ruins after record-breaking Hurricane Melissa

New satellite imagery captures the complete devastation across Jamaica left in the wake of deadly Hurricane Melissa.

Evening Standard

William donating to relief efforts to help people affected by Hurricane Melissa

Jamaica was left devastated this week by Melissa, one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the island in its history.

The Independent UK

Race against time for Hurricane Melissa aid workers to deliver relief to people in Jamaica

Aid workers have spread across Jamaica to deliver food and water

Evening Standard

King and Queen donate to Red Cross to help people affected by Hurricane Melissa

Jamaica was left devastated this week by Melissa, one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the island in its history.

The Independent UK

King Charles and Queen Camilla donate to fund helping people hit by Hurricane Melissa

Melissa, one of the strongest hurricanes in history, created devastation

International Business Times UK

'Everything Is Gone': Jamaica's Black River Left in Ruins After Deadly Hurricane Melissa

Jamaica's historic Black River lies destroyed after Hurricane Melissa's 185mph winds left catastrophic damage and claimed at least 19 lives across the island.

The Independent UK

How climate change fuelled Hurricane Melissa - and why it is only going to get worse: ‘This is our new normal’

Jamaica contributes barely anything to global carbon emissions, yet has been rocked by devastation that could take it decades to recover from, reports Maira Butt

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