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Hurricane Irma

November 2023

  • An image of Palmetto Point in Barbuda, showing sand mining and the destruction of natural vegetation.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Billionaire club’: the tiny island of Barbuda braces for decision on land rights and nature

    Hurricane Irma’s destruction of the Caribbean island opened the door for rampant development that threatens its unique ecosystems – but islanders are fighting back

May 2020

  • Marigot Bay, St Martin taken from Fort Louis, April 2020

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Long journey home: the stranded sailboats in a race to beat the hurricanes

    Covid-19 has marooned people living on small boats worldwide. Now hundreds of anxious sailors are preparing to make dangerous voyages home across the Atlantic

September 2019

  • Thomas Cook passengers queue at Son Sant Joan airport in Palma de Mallorca

    The case for bailing out Thomas Cook

    Letters: Readers respond to the collapse of the travel company

March 2019

  • Prince Charles and Camilla Duchess of Cornwall with Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, 19 March 2019.

    What if the Caribbean refused royal visits until reparations were paid?

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    Charles and Camilla are the latest to arrive and help whitewash the injustices of slavery and empire, says Nalini Mohabir of Ryerson University, Toronto

October 2018

  • Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle as a category 4 storm causing massive damage. Mexico Beach was devastated by the storm.

    From Harvey to Michael: how America's year of major hurricanes unfolded

    The past year has been marked by storms of record ferocity, apocalyptic damage and thousands of deaths

August 2018

  • This historic image from NOAA's GOES-16 satellite shows hurricanes Katia (left), Irma (center), and Jose (right). It was the first time on record that three major hurricanes made landfall at the same time in the Atlantic-Caribbean region.

    The forgotten Americans: Puerto Rico after Maria
    Caribbean states beg Trump to grasp climate change threat: 'War has come to us'

  • A man walks in Cordington, Barbuda, after Hurricane Irma hit the island in 2017.

    Work on Caribbean island airport halted by court ruling

July 2018

  • Ruined house on Jost Van Dyke island, in the British Virgin Isles, after Hurricane Irma, 2017

    Britain 'will strengthen response to hurricanes in Caribbean'

    Foreign secretary Boris Johnson plans improved coordination with other countries

March 2018

  • Local residents look inside a collapsed coastal house in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Vilano Beach, Florida.

    Lloyd’s of London slides to £2bn loss after major hurricanes

    Insurance market moves into the red for first time in six years as earthquakes also make impact

February 2018

  • Bishop Brooks, Rev Wycherley Gumbs and Father Hodge in their now roofless Methodist church

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    An Island Parish: After the Hurricane review – battered Anguilla keeps the faith

  • Researchers deploy a hydrophone on a coral reef shelf edge habitat called Weinberg Reef

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: wildlife calls change volume as hurricanes pass

January 2018

  • Flood evacuees<br>FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2017, file photo, rescue boats float on a flooded street as people are evacuated from rising floodwaters brought on by Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston. The National Hurricane Center’s official report on Harvey compiles staggering numbers, starting with 68 dead and $125 billion in damage. But the really big numbers in the Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, tally have to do with the rainfall that swamped Houston. Two places had more than five feet of rain. Eighteen different parts of Texas logged more than four feet of rain. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

    Harvey was second-most expensive US hurricane on record, official report says

  • Houston Area Begins Slow Recovery From Catastrophic Harvey Storm Damage<br>KATY, TX - SEPTEMBER 04: Two girls ride through floodwaters an a tractor on September 4, 2017 in Katy, Texas. Over a week after Hurricane Harvey hit Southern Texas, residents are beginning the long process of recovering from the storm. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

    $306bn in one year: US bill for natural disasters smashes record

December 2017

  • Cordington, Barbuda. The island spans 62 sq miles.

    Barbuda fears land rights loss in bid to spread tourism from Antigua

  • 2017 AP YEAR END PHOTOS - Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey surround homes in Port Arthur, Texas, on Aug. 31, 2017. The storm, which later became a hurricane, dumped record rainfall throughout the Houston area. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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November 2017

  • The official civic reception at Preston Guild Hall for the 700 students and staff from American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine who were evacuated and relocated to Lancashire.

    'Welcome to sunny Preston': city welcomes students displaced by Irma

  • Hurricane aftermath on Virgin Islands<br>epa06211932 A handout photo made available by the British Minsirty of Defence (MOD) on 18 September 2017 shows shows what is left of Alvin and Dorothy’s home after being hit by Hurricane IRMA on Tortola, British Virgin Islands, 16 September 2017. Assault Engineers (AEs) from Somerset based 40 Commando Royal Marines were tasked to carry out repairs on a badly damaged house with the goal being for the owners being able to move back in. The house belongs to husband and wife Alvin (72) and Dorothy (59) Nibbs who have been married for nearly 30 years. The two were forced to flee their abode soon after Hurricane Irma hit due to the extent of the damage. The pair who are both in poor health have had no choice but to stay in a nearby shelter. EPA/LPhot Joel Rouse / HANDOUT MANDATORY CREDIT: CROWN COPYRIGHT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

    A new challenge looms for British Virgin Islands: how to clean up hurricane mess

  • Residents of Codrington and Red Cross workers survey damage on the island of Barbuda in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma

    The night Barbuda died: how Hurricane Irma created a Caribbean ghost town

  • PEMBROKE PINES, FL - NOVEMBER 01: Nora Franco, Miguel Franco, Pedro Franco, Edgar Franco and Margarita Navarro (left to right) stand together as the siblings speak about their parents Miguel Antonio Franco and Cecilia Franco who were two of the 14 fatalities at the Rehabilitation Center of Hollywood Hills nursing home on November 1, 2017 in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The nursing home located in Hollywood, Florida lost power during Hurricane Irma in September and had no air conditioning, and within three days elderly residents were dead and dying of respiratory distress. The controversy now is over how the home handled, or more accurately didn’t handle, the unfolding crisis. The family has filed a lawsuit against the nursing home’s owners. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Margarita Navarro;Nora Franco;Pedro Franco;Edgar Franco;Miguel Franco

    'They let people die': searching for justice after Florida's nursing home tragedy

October 2017

  • Homes sit in ruins at Codrington on the island of Barbuda just after a month after Hurricane Irma struck the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda, October 7, 2017. Picture taken October 7, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

    Barbuda PM calls for help from Britain to rebuild island devastated by hurricane

    With Antigua’s smaller sister 95% destroyed, leader Gaston Browne says UK must not overlook Commonwealth members in favour of overseas territories
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