In western Oklahoma, a region suffering through a harsh drought, several wildfires have recently broken out, including the Rhea Fire, a “megafire” which has burned more than 260,000 acres.

If hemisphere-spanning currents are slowing, greater flooding and extreme weather could be at hand

No, no, no...That is not a massive NASA cloud generating machine in that viral video. Here is the actual science.

The administrator of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday it will take up to an estimated $50 billion to help rebuild Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria and warned that the U.S. territory is not ready for another disaster.

Snow falling at 1 to 2 inches per hour and 50-mph wind gusts are creating whiteout conditions. Eight to 15 inches of snow is expected, and travel is discouraged. Flights are grounded at MSP Airport, and Sunday events are now getting called off.

A recording salvaged from three miles deep tells the story of the doomed “El Faro,” a cargo ship engulfed by a hurricane. By William Langewiesche.

Record-breaking temperatures will continue in southern parts of Australia this week, with Adelaide set to cop the brunt of the heat today. Temperatures have peaked in the mid-30s in Adelaide and an April heatwave record looks set to be broken in the state capital. Extreme heat in early April is not abnormal, but with 34 degrees Celsius in Adelaide on Sunday, 35C forecast for today and 33C on Tuesday, a significant record is in danger.

On Estonia’s roads across the frozen Baltic you may drive below 25kph or over 40kph, but never in between. And never wear a seat belt.

Starfish and crabs among animals piled ankle-deep along parts of the North Sea coast

For the community of Jean Lafitte, the question is less whether it will succumb to the sea than when — and how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life.

The sort of severe winter weather that has rattled parts of the US and UK is becoming more common as the Arctic warms, with scientists finding a strong link between high temperatures near the pole and unusually heavy snowfall and frigid weather further south. A sharp increase in temperatures across the Arctic since the early 1990s has coincided with an uptick in abnormally cold snaps in winter, particularly in the eastern US, according to new research that analyzed temperature data from 1950 onwards.

A new study finds that the months of November to February are seeing an increase in average tornado activity, with a shift away from the Southern Plains and a ramp-up over the favored terrain of “Dixie Alley,” including Arkansas, Louisiana,...

Sand blows across a normally submerged area at Theewaterskloof dam near Cape Town, South Africa. The dam, which supplies most of Cape Town's potable water, is currently dangerously low as the city faces 'Day Zero', the point at which taps will be shut down across the city.

Shipping can navigate easily through the Arctic Ocean as the ice melts in abnormally high temperatures for February.

Water covers downtown streets after the Ohio River flooded in Louisville, February 26, 2018.

Several trucks and cars stand deserted after a pileup near Sjobo, Sweden.

It’s been downright toasty at the North Pole, at least by Arctic standards. The northernmost weather station in the world, Cape Morris Jesup in Greenland, saw temperatures stay above freezing for almost 24 hours straight last week, and then climb to 43 degrees Fahrenheit (6.1 degrees Celsius) on Saturday before dropping again.

Businesses blocked doors with sandbags and officials warned residents of waterfront homes to be ready to evacuate as the northeastern United States braced for a powerful storm on Friday that threatened to flood coasts from Maine to North Carolina.

Severe weather brings disruption to large parts of the continent and at least 55 people have died.

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A slightly above-average Atlantic hurricane season is likely in 2018.

A team of scientists from World Weather Attribution, including researchers from Rice University and other institutions in the United States and Europe, have found that human-caused climate change made the record rainfall that fell over Houston during Hurricane Harvey roughly three times more likely and 15 percent more intense.

The U.S. excels at delivering international humanitarian relief. But FEMA has a different mission.

Tropical Storm Tembin brings flash floods and mudslides to the southern island of Mindanao.

A crash involving more than 40 cars closed southbound US-31 at Colby Street in Whitehall for about two hours Friday afternoon. The accident happened close to Holton Road. Muskegon Township Police Chief Dave Wypa, said, fortunately, there were only three injuries in the wreck. Wypa says all of those hurt were in the same car. They were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

It just keeps getting colder in Calgary. It was even too cold for the penguins to go outside at the Calgary Zoo on Friday.

A massive winter storm roared into the East Coast on Thursday, threatening to dump as much as 18 inches of snow from the Carolinas to Maine and unleashing hurricane-force winds and flooding that closed schools and offices and halted transportation systems.

It's so cold in Florida that iguanas are falling from their perches in suburban trees. Temperatures dipped below 40 degrees Fahrenheit early Thursday in parts of South Florida, according to the National Weather Service in Miami. That's chilly enough to immobilize the green iguanas common in the region. Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino tweeted a photograph of an iguana lying belly-up next to his swimming pool.

Emergency services in southeast Australia are warning people to stay indoors as a dangerous heatwave batters the country, with temperatures so high that the asphalt on some roads has been melting. 

It's quite a time for weird weather, and it doesn't get much weirder than snow falling in one of the hottest places in the world.

People living in some of the coldest places on earth are hunkering down as temperatures fall to near-record lows that are even defeating thermometers. Temperatures in the remote, diamond-rich Russian region of Yakutia on Tuesday plunged to minus 67 degrees Celsius (minus 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas.

Parisians have been warned to stay away from the river Seine as it continues to rise, flooding surrounding roads and causing disruption to the city’s transport network. As water levels increased on Wednesday, the capital’s authorities said the river could pass the 6.10-metre (20ft) level of 2016, the highest in over a century and more than four metres above its normal height.

Earth had another severe year for billion-dollar weather-related natural disasters in 2017, with 29. This is the sixth-largest number on record going back to 1990.

Snow carpets the Russian capital bringing down more than 2,000 trees, with the loss of one life.

After drying out from near-record rainfall that swamped Paris last month, the French capital awoke this morning to a white blanket of snowfall thick enough to shut down the famed Eiffel Tower. Around 5 inches of snow has fallen there in the past 24 hours, according to French official weather service Meteo France.