The hurricane Balm, one of the strongest ever recorded in the Atlantic, is still following its path of destruction after crossing JamaicaCuba and, early Thursday morning, the Bahamas as well. Scientists have already concluded—proven with data—that this phenomenon is a direct consequence of the climate crisis created by the burning of fossil fuels. A specific study by Imperial College London concludes that global warming has made this hurricane four times more likely. If there were no climate change, a hurricane of that intensity would have occurred only once every 8,000 years, the study says. But human-created conditions have increased wind speeds by at least 18 km/h and raised them to the 295 km/h recorded on record. Balm when it made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday, as a Category 5 hurricane.

In the Atlantic, there are an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics, which means that these tiny particles of plastic (much smaller than microplastics) are the most abundant in this ocean, much more than the large pieces of plastic or what the well-known microplasticsThis is the conclusion of a new study published this Tuesday in the journal Nature and prepared for Utrecht University.