More than 50,000 utility customers were without power in Puerto Rico as the hurricane battered the Caribbean, bringing heavy rain, powerful wind and sizable waves to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Island...

A stronger and bigger Hurricane Erin pelted parts of the Caribbean and was forecast to create dangerous surf and rip currents along the U.S. East Coast this week.

The hurricane was located 110 miles (180 kilometres) north of Anguilla at Saturday afternoon and moving west at 16 mph (26 km/h).

“It looks like it's going to stay offshore through its entire lifetime, but because it's so large in size, it is going to be bringing impacts,” says Alex DaSilva, AccuWeather’s lead hurricane expert....

Hurricane Erin remains a Category 4 storm, forecast to bring life-threatening surf and rip currents across the U.S. East Coast this week.

Even more hurricanes are rapidly intensifying in the Atlantic as the oceans and atmosphere warm in response to fossil fuel pollution and the global warming it causes.