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People salvage belongings from the rubble of their home on Wednesday after it collapsed during Hurricane Melissa’s passage through Santiago de Cuba. Credit: Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Climate News: Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa Four Times More Likely, Study Suggests

Fueled by unusually warm waters, Hurricane Melissa this week turned into one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. Now a new rapid attribution study suggests human-induced climate change made the deadly tropical cyclone four times more likely.

Hurricane Melissa collided with Jamaica on Tuesday, wreaking havoc across the island before tearing through nearby Haiti and Cuba. The storm, which reached Category 5, reserved for the hurricanes with the most powerful winds, has killed at least 40 people across the Caribbean so far. …

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