Ice sheets, deserts, rivers, islands, coasts and oceans -- the features of Earth's surface are wildly different, spread across a vast geography.

New research based on ocean models and near real-time data from autonomous gliders indicates that the "The Blob" and El Niño together strongly depressed productivity off the West Coast, with The Bl

BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments have been too slow to respond to droughts and floods linked to the El Niño weather pattern, and must do better next time if global development g

In a major new paper in the influential journal Science, a team of researchers report strikingly good news about a 30-year old environmental problem.

Cases of heatstroke are likely to jump as temperatures surge this summer amid Japan’s first La Nina phenomenon in six years, according to the Meteorological Agency.

Sydney has just shivered through its coolest June day in 21 years although the worst of the cold spell is probably over for now.

More than 25% excess rainfall over normal on Wednesday has pulled down the overall deficiency in the quantum of monsoon rainfall to only 18% from 25% reported a week ago.

MUMBAI: The normal monsoon onset date for the city may be June 10 in the India Meteorological Department (IMD) calendar, but in the last 65 years there have been only two years, 1999 and 2004, when

Indian monsoon rains have covered nearly half of the country, the weather department said on Monday, accelerating planting of summer crops like paddy rice, soybeans, cotton and pulses.