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Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic

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Hurricane Melissa is among the strongest hurricanes to have formed in the Atlantic Ocean since records have been kept, ranking as one the most powerful storms in terms of both wind strength and pressure. The storm, which formed last week, was an “extremely dangerous” Category 5 hurricane as it made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday,…

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Africa’s Plants – a Database Project Has Recorded 65,000 Species – and Is Still Growing

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The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and Madagascar. Since 2006, every plant species ever documented in Africa and Madagascar has been included in the massive online database, with about 200 new species added every year. Cyrille Chatelain is a curator at the Geneva…