A major shift in the climate pattern is on the horizon, with forecasters raising the odds that El Niño will develop this ...

There are increasing indications El Niño is likely to form and strengthen into potentially a significant event during the next several months, throwing weather patterns worldwide out of whack and ...

As global temperatures rise, scientists are uncovering more information about how the overheating of our planet is making extreme weather events worse — especially heavy rainfall. However, scientists ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, between 66 and 47.8 million years ago, rainfall across mid-latitude regions ...

From the rice paddies of South Asia to the wheat fields of northern China, summer monsoon rains sustain the livelihoods of ...

Scientists have long focused on rising temperatures to understand how climate change is reshaping the natural world. But ...

After months of hearing about the possibility of the world entering a La Niña climate pattern, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) announced Thursday that water temperatures in critical parts of ...

Climate disasters that kill large numbers of people have never been short, single events. They are almost always ...