If you ever find yourself on Macquarie Island—a narrow, wind-lashed ridge halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica—the first ...

What warmer oceans do change, however, is the amount of energy available to any storm that does manage to form. When the ocean is warmer, cyclones have more fuel and evaporation increases, loading the ...

When hurricanes or strong storms sweep up the United States' East Coast and meet the shores of the country's largest estuary, ...

What Sri Lanka’s recent disasters tell us Sri Lanka has always lived with the moods of the monsoon. For generations, people ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored a new study that describes storm-like ocean circulation patterns beneath ...

A marine heat wave spanning much of the North Pacific Ocean is already influencing the weather in North America and is poised to make its mark on winter. The unusually warm ocean water, coined “the ...

South-East Asia is being pummelled by unusually severe floods this year, as late-arriving storms and relentless rains wreak havoc and caught many places off guard.

Microplastics are already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up, they are becoming a much bigger and more hazardous problem, according to a new analysis ...