Research reveals that many more people lose their lives because of the effects of rainfall and flooding than are routinely accounted for.

Frogs need water. Almost all of the world's 7,900 known frog species breed in fresh water. And when it rains, these amphibians erupt into a chorus of calls—croaks, trills, cheeps and bellows—to ...

This year has seen record-breaking damage caused by extreme weather events across the US with costs estimated to be as high as $126 billion. Disasters such as the Los Angeles wildfires at the ...

WASHINGTON — After deadly flooding in Central Texas in 1987, some thought they’d proven they could handle Mother Nature’s best punch. Then came this month’s horrific flash floods, when unfathomable ...

GENEVA (AP) — Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilization and “turbo-charging” the Earth’s ...

The increasing regularity and severity of extreme weather events has caused chaos across food and beverage for the past decade. Flooding, drought, and extreme high temperatures have wreaked havoc on ...

After deadly flooding in central Texas in 1987, some thought they'd proven they could handle Mother Nature's best punch. Then came this month's horrific flash floods, when unfathomable amounts of rain ...

This year has seen some of the most destructive extreme weather events on record. Wildfires in Los Angeles were a big part of the equation, but several other events also left devastation in their wake ...

Omid Ghasemi receives funding from the Australian Academy of Science. He was a member of the TISP consortium and a co-author of the dataset used in this study. Will firsthand experience of these ...