El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

By Bobby Bascomb The devastating fires that swept through parts of Los Angeles, U.S., in January raged for more than three ...

As California prepares for heavy rain in areas recently burned by wildfires, the first of three storms expected in the US this week impacted communities from the Ohio Valley east to New Jersey.

The Los Angeles fires were burning evidence of how dangerous this delusion is. The fires were a bonfire of bad ideas that had ...

It seems like merely a fact of life on the West Coast that summers are dry. But compared to most of the rest of the country ...

Climate science is the study of relatively long-term weather conditions, typically spanning decades to centuries but extending to geological timescales. The discipline is primarily concerned with ...

The LA fires are no different. Amplified by a warming climate and clearly of a scale no amount of preparedness ... As global temperatures rise and extreme weather events become more frequent, these ...

We monitor global and hemispheric climate indicators ... the severity of weather systems. Global SSTs remain substantially above average. The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) remains neutral though ...

Australia's weather is influenced by many climate drivers. El Niño and La Niña have the strongest influence on year-to-year climate variability for most of the country. They are part of a natural ...

Louisiana is being hammered by the effects of climate change, a floundering economy and failing infrastructure, according to ...