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 ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Farah Nibbs, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (THE CONVERSATION) Headlines ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jamaica was still recovering from Hurricane Beryl, which sideswiped the island in July ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Farah Nibbs is an assistant professor of Emergency and ...