Residents have been rationing their water use because of a very real risk the taps will run dry.

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

When it comes to extreme weather, Europe—typically more placid than North America—has been giving its western counterpart a run for its money over the past month.

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.

Scientists identified bacteria that caused a mass die-off of the endangered antelopes in Kazakhstan in 2015. But the mechanism that made the bacteria so deadly is not understood.

Thousands of people have been stranded by heavy snowfall at ski resorts in the Alps, with many unable to return home following skiing holidays.  Train lines and roads to Zermatt in Switzerland and St Anton in Austria have been blocked off, and authorities are asking people to remain in their accommodation for safety reasons. 

WE’VE heard of clouds having silver linings, but Northern Territory locals have been treated to the sight of clouds with a stunning rainbow lining.

The administration says two new Dell systems being added to existing IBM and Cray clusters in Virginia and Florida data centers will boost its compute power by one third and storage by 60 percent, extending its visibility into future weather from 10 to 16 days.

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.

Weather and climate-related disasters cost the United States a record $306 billion in 2017, the third-warmest year on record, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Monday.

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. 

Temperatures on a mountain in New Hampshire could fall so low you risk getting frostbite in a couple of minutes.

Chad Cowan

Several homeless men and a snowmobiler are among those who have perished in the Arctic blast.

Just as spring means the flowers bloom, winter means Donald Trump’s climate denial blossoms. On Thursday, President Trump posted a tweet suggesting that the current cold snap across the United States disproves evidence of climate change. Of course, it’s called “global” warming for a reason — as this map shows, even though it’s cold here, it’s unusually warm pretty much everywhere else in the world.

Dustin Farrell

Mike Olbinski

September 2017 was the planet's fourth warmest September since record keeping began in 1880, said NOAA and NASA.

The wildfires raging in California, the hurricanes that battered the United States: they are only the beginning of what is to come.

Hurricane Ophelia is reaching winds of up to 100mph in the Atlantic Ocean as it approaches the UK, forecasters say.  The storm is expected to bring heavy rain and strong winds to the British Isles early next week, after a weekend of warm weather with temperatures of about 23C in some places.  The Met Office has issued severe weather alerts, warning of potential power cuts, damage to buildings and disruption to transport networks and mobile-phone signals.