A raging flood pulled a family's home of more than 50 years into the Blue Earth River in southern Minnesota this week, as a community watched in horror. The river’s water flow had tripled in three ...
Click the downloadable graphic: Extreme Precipitation Change 1958 to 2021 Climate change is bringing heavier rainfall extremes and increased, inequitable flood risk to many parts of the U.S. For every ...
From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made ...
Extreme rainfall events are associated with an increased risk of death from all causes as well as from heart and lung diseases, finds an analysis of data from 34 countries and regions published by The ...
(Bloomberg) -- Torrential rains that triggered floods and landslides have killed hundreds of people and displaced millions across parts of Africa, Europe and Asia in recent weeks. The unprecedented ...
The tragic flooding that hit Spain’s Valencia region in late October, killing more than 200 people, was a reminder that many so-called natural disasters are, in fact, the result of extreme events ...
“A hurricane in the Gulf always has the potential to deliver a lot of tropical moisture to inland areas of the United States,” said Jay Cordeira of the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes ...
Oct. 9 (UPI) --A new observational study published Wednesday of more than 100 million deaths from all causes across all six continents over four decades has found a heightened mortality risk among ...
Across India, torrential rains over the past few months have swallowed an entire village in the Himalayas, flooded Punjab's farmlands and brought Kolkata to a standstill. This all happened in a ...