Global Precipitation Measurement mission has produced its first global map of rainfall and snowfall. Like a lead violin tuning an orchestra, the GPM Core Observatory launched one year ago on Feb. 27, ...

Reconstructed surface air temperature (left) and rainfall amount (right) during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum warming event, 56 million years ago. The maps were created by blending geological ...

"I was hoping to demonstrate to myself that there is a lot more river water than we thought. Turns out, that's not what we got — that's a little sobering." When you purchase through links on our site, ...

There are invisible rivers streaming across the sky — massive plumes of moisture borne over the oceans and wafted across the continents. When this moisture is released back down to Earth, it can ...

Images captured by NASA have mapped record-breaking rainfall in Florida. Over the past month, a moisture plume from the western Caribbean brought heavy rains to Florida's Gulf Coast, resulting in ...

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few days. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Gil strengthened to a tropical storm in the North Pacific Ocean Sunday afternoon Hawaii time, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Gil is the seventh named storm to form in the Eastern ...