South-East Asia is being pummelled by unusually severe floods this year, as late-arriving storms and relentless rains wreak havoc and caught many places off guard.

What Sri Lanka’s recent disasters tell us Sri Lanka has always lived with the moods of the monsoon. For generations, people ...

The fascinating Sargasso Sea, a unique region in the North Atlantic where no land touches the water, yet life thrives like nowhere else.

If you ever find yourself on Macquarie Island—a narrow, wind-lashed ridge halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica—the first ...

UCSB research offers a new perspective on how carbon is stored in the deep ocean and what it could mean for maintaining Earth ...

With Trump’s budget knife still poised over NOAA’s climate research operations, international researchers see a reduced role ...

Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 ...

A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.

Everyone in Southern California knows La Niña winters are typically dry. Yet this year has seen an unusual, surprisingly wet ...

Hot air evaporates a lot more water, so crops, forests and landscapes in some areas dry out, which makes them more susceptible to wildfire. Each Celsius degree of warming can cause a sixfold increase ...

A weak La Nina may affect global weather patterns during the next three months, according to a World Meteorological Organization prediction published on Thursday.

It brings together municipal resources and GMRI’s climate science research to better prepare the city for severe weather while reducing environmental impacts.