The Butterfly Effect is the chaos-theory idea that the flapping of an insect’s tiny wings can influence massive weather events far removed from it in distance and time.

Over the last six months, Americans have been inundated with a near-constant stream of announcements from the federal government — programs shuttered, funding cut, jobs eliminated, and regulations ...

One of the world's strongest earthquakes struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, an 8.8-magnitude temblor that caused tsunami waves in Japan and Alaska and prompted warnings for Hawaii, North and ...

Iona remains a major Category 3 hurricane as it continues on a track keeping it well south of Hawaii.Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Keli is maintaining is intensity as a weak tropical storm to the ...

The earthquake was recorded at about 78 miles east-southeast of of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, according to the U.S.

Crucial satellite data will keep flowing this hurricane season. I was happy to break the news on Tuesday morning that the Department of Defense (DoD) had announced to officials at the National Oceanic ...

Satellite data that are useful for weather forecasting—and particularly crucial to monitoring hurricanes—will not be cut off ...

Louisiana meteorologists and weather experts criticized the decision to cut the satellites and joined others across the ...

After an initial plan to cut the data off in late June, the Pentagon extended that timeline to July 31 as forecasters raised concern that any loss of data could increase the risks rapidly intensifying ...

Microwave satellite data that are key to capturing changes in a hurricane’s strength will not be taken from meteorologists as ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will maintain long-term access to key Defense Department satellite data used for hurricane forecasting and more, the agency said in a statement ...

This year, Australia has experienced record-breaking floods, tropical cyclones, heat waves on land and in the ocean, drought, coral bleaching, coastal erosion and devastating algal blooms. Over the ...