Rainfall prediction app helps Indonesia’s farmers
A new rainfall app is helping farmers in Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island navigate climate change. A collaboration...
Unprecedented rainfall hits snowy summit in Greenland
On Greenland’s highest summit, snow is the norm. But on the weekend of August 14-15, it rained. A lot. Seven...
Scientists try triggering rain with electricity
A new method of triggering rain in water-scarce regions will be tested in the United Arab Emirates, according to...
Hurricane Florence could cause dangerous floods of toxic sludge and animal waste
Torrential rains are not the only thing Hurricane Florence will bring once it hits landfall. The massive storm...
6 ways that scientists are hacking the planet
Life on planet Earth is struggling through an historically challenging era, thanks in no small part to the actions...
China's new rain-making system could increase rainfall by billions of cubic feet
China needs water — and their answer to the issue is a massive weather modification system being developed by...
New hybrid solar panel harvests energy from raindrops
A team of Chinese engineers have created a new hybrid solar panel that can also harvest energy from raindrops....
Raindrop makes rainwater harvesting at home beautiful and easy
Traditional rain barrels are often clunky eyesores, which is why Studio Bas van der Veer designed a beautiful modern...
Scientists discover the Amazon forest sets off its own rainy season
Scientists have been stumped for years over why the southern Amazon rainforest's rainy season begins two to three...
Climate change could transform one of Africa's driest regions into a wet one
Climate change is often connected to heat waves and hot temperatures. But researchers recently found very different...
Bangladesh raises storm danger to highest level as Cyclone Mora batters coastline
Bangladesh was still picking up the pieces after flash floods in April affected millions of people when a cyclone...
California governor marks official end of state's historic drought
A wet winter that filled reservoirs with rainwater and blanketed the Sierra Nevadas with heavy snow has officially...
Only 9% of California is still in drought as Sierra Nevada snowpack hits 185%
A year ago 95 percent of California was in a drought. Today, just 9 percent of the state is still experiencing...
Damaged Oroville spillway in California prompts mass evacuations
Winter storms continue to drench California, and over the weekend people living near Oroville in Northern California...
Record winter storm pounds California
California is battling one of the strongest winter storms the state has seen in years, prompting Gov. Jerry Brown...
