As Jamaica braces for a direct hit, relief efforts have begun for islands shattered by Hurricane Beryl

‘Sea level rise represents a clear human influence on the damage potential from a given hurricane’

Originally published on Global Voices

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The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season had barely begun when Hurricane Beryl proved itself, in many ways, to be unprecedented. It reared its head earlier than most major storms tend to do, it gained power quickly, being upgraded to a Category 3 and then Cat 4 system within a mere 48 hours and, having left a trail of destruction through the Grenadines ...