Rain gauges did not exist millions of years ago. Instead, researchers turn to indirect clues left behind in rocks, soils, and ...

To understand how global warming could influence future climate, scientists look to the Paleogene Period that began 66 ...

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 ...

With rising temperatures, the atmosphere can hold more moisture, meaning precipitation has a tendency to fall at more extreme levels. By Christina Kelso The severe storm system that has inundated the ...

Massive rainfall inundated parts of Central and Eastern Europe in mid-September, dumping as much as two-thirds of some cities' annual rain in just a few days. The rainfall from the weather system, ...