Nearly 8000 homes remain without power as in Northland and Auckland Airport has recorded the strongest northeasterly gust ...

Earth Day draws attention to climate change, but it's also been a fascinating day in weather history, with everything from ...

Here's the story about the strongest wind speed measured on the Earth's surface, and how it took 14 years for this ...

Tropical cyclones are hurricanes that brew over the tropical ocean and can travel over land, inundating coastal regions. The most extreme cyclones can generate devastating storm tides—seawater ...

Extreme weather events and natural disasters such as bushfires and floods, fueled by rising global temperatures, are ...

Over 5500 homes remain without electricity in Northland, online outage maps by Top Energy and Northpower show. Some have been ...

The  National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has forecast extreme summer conditions, warning of intensifying heatwaves ...

For the highly populated coastal country of Bangladesh, once-in-a-century storm tides could strike every 10 years -- or more often -- by the end of the century, scientists report. Tropical ...

Northlanders are beginning to clean-up fallen trees and sodden properties as the rain and wind from Cyclone Tam begins to ...

Tropical cyclones are hurricanes that brew over the tropical ocean and can travel over land, inundating coastal regions. The most extreme cyclones can generate devastating storm tides — seawater that ...

Rio Tinto Group’s first-quarter iron ore shipments fell 9% from the year before to a six-year low, after tropical cyclones ...