ABU DHABI // The UAE was battered by fierce winds, torrential rain and thunderstorms on Wednesday morning.

As sea levels rise, threatening cities from New York to Shanghai, the economic damage will increase even faster, scientists said on Monday.

Several tornadoes lashed southern Louisiana and Mississippi on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 30 as the storms destroyed dozens of homes and businesses and toppled a

A deadly storm has killed five people and injured 39 others in Boane district, about 30 kilometres south-west of the Mozambican capital Maputo, an official said Sunday.Boane district administrator

The number of people killed in the cyclone that hit Fiji at the weekend has risen to 29, with officials warning the clear-up could take months.

Fiji has become the first country in the world to formally approve the UN climate deal agreed by 195 nations in Paris in December.

Scientists are coming to grips with how weather in Antarctica is influencing climate as far away as the tropics.

45 people have died in the storms and floods which have hit parts of northern Mozambique since the start of the current rainy season in October.

A winter storm that struck the eastern seaboard of the United States in January caused around $2 billion in economic losses, and hundreds of millions of dollars in insured losses, reinsurance broke