Fasher, a town in Darfur that has been under a grueling siege for more than 500 days. Also, Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica with catastrophic winds and the potential for widespread ...

Fasher, a town in Darfur that has been under a grueling siege for more than 500 days. Nathaniel Raymond, the director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, tells The ...

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Hurricane Melissa intensifies into a Category 5 hurricane as it heads towards Jamaica. We look at how, in the age of climate change, storms are becoming wetter, stronger, slower and more destructive.