The Amazon rain forest isn’t necessarily a place that many would associate with a drought, yet prolonged dry spells are projected to become more prevalent and severe because of climate change.

If the forecast calls for rain, you’ll probably pack an umbrella.

Permafrost is soil that remains frozen for two or more consecutive years.

Tropical Cyclone 12S has developed east of the African island nation of Madagascar.

Scientists have discovered a way to clean oil-soaked soil and make it fertile again.

Researchers who detected the West Nile Virus (WNV) in Pakistan for the first time are calling for urgent, coordinated surveillance to assess the distribution in the country of the virus known to cause deadly neurological disease.

For all their destructive power, most volcanic eruptions are local events. 

Remote recording devices used to ‘eavesdrop’ on a reintroduced population of one of New Zealand’s rarest birds have been heralded as a breakthrough for conservation.

Phosphate is a key element in many processes in the body and essential for global food production.

A new NASA study shows that warming of the tropical oceans due to climate change could lead to a substantial increase in the frequency of extreme rain storms by the end of the century.