Floods and droughts across the globe are moving in sync, and a powerful Pacific climate cycle is pulling the strings.

Scientists tracking Earth’s water from space discovered that El Niño and La Niña are synchronizing floods and droughts across ...

In the past few days, hundreds of bushfires have ignited in southeast Australia during an extreme heat wave. And communities ...

Water extremes such as droughts and floods have a huge impact on communities, ecosystems, and economies. Researchers with The ...

Scientists say current conditions don’t look good for the state to rid itself of drought conditions by summer.

El Nino-Southern Oscillation-driven water extremes could reshape planning for food, trade, and disaster response, according ...

The intensity of extreme drought and rainfall has “sharply” increased over the past 20 years, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Water. These aren’t merely tough weather ...

Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin have concluded that droughts and floods around the world are increasingly ...

Scientists discovered that a week of full submergence is enough to kill most rice plants, making flooding a far greater threat than previously understood. Intensifying extreme rainfall events may ...

Drive through any part of New England today and you’ll see signs of drought: brown grass, wildfire warnings, early fall foliage and low rivers. One hundred percent of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine ...

The dramatic images resulting from this week's floods in the Midwest are, in a way, a welcome sight. Six months ago, the region was wracked by drought. While the sudden drought-to-flood transition may ...

The rains and floods that swept through our communities in December was followed by cooler weather and heavy snow. That ...