Trouble is brewing in the tropics. The National Hurricane Center has confirmed that the disturbance it has been monitoring over the central Caribbean Sea has strengthened to become the 13th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.

Published in Nature Communications, the international research team found that the El Niño-Southern Oscillation could intensify rapidly over the coming decades and synchronize with other major climate phenomena, reshaping global temperature and rainfall patterns by the end of the 21st century.

With healthy populations of animals that disperse seeds, tropical forests can absorb up to four times more carbon.

The vast tropical forest nations of Brazil and Indonesia are both home to millions of people, including Indigenous communities. They store enormous amounts of carbon to protect our climate and are home to staggering numbers of species found nowhere else in the world.

The Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) is moving to mitigate the possible effects of the passage of Tropica