High-Tech Sensors Help Study Storms That Unleash Floods: Capital Region Often in Direct Path of Massive 'Pineapple Express.'
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 19--A new network of high-tech weather sensors is making the streams, tributaries and dams of the American River the country's most closely monitored water system.
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A puzzle is crucial to securing IndiaÂs future: how to harness and hold on to its rich but capricious rains.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 19  /PRNewswire/ -- New research by two University of Tennessee professors could help us better understand hurricanes by looking to an unusual source: tree rings.
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By AP Wire Service  Technicians want to assess hail storm damage and determine necessary repairs.   CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
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Gideon Mendel's pictures of flooding in east and west reveal striking contrasts and unexpected resonances
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Climate change may carry a higher risk of flooding than was previously thought, the journal Nature reports.
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GULF BREEZE, Fla. - When a hurricane makes landfall in the continental United States, Dave Prevatt and his colleagues in the Florida Coastal Monitoring Program are out evaluating which construction methods best protect homes from the tremendous wind forces the storms deliver...
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Scientists are claiming that the unprecedented ferocity and frequency of the hurricanes that have battered the Caribbean this year can be blamed on one factor: the unexpectedly warm water that has been building up in the Atlantic over the past year.
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By ROBERT TRAWICK  June marks the beginning of hurricane season, and it's important to understand powerful hurricanes can affect the entire state - not just the southern portions.
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SPACE.com / Scientists could soon predict when and where monster waves generated by hurricanes will strike, thanks to new computer models and data from a seven-year study that involved researchers flying into the center of the violent tempests.
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Hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires: a year after Katrina, a tour of the American hazardscape shows that we haven't learned much
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Scientists tap everything from gas-sniffing devices to GPS systems to better forecast when a mountain will stir. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Scientists using data from planes flying into a large hurricane have documented changes inside these swirling storms that can quickly alter their intensity, and say these insights can improve forecasting.
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The Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok has unveiled a state-of-the-art mobile wireless network that can be used to establish communication for emergency workers after a disaster.
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Lakes, rivers and whole regions are drying up dangerously fast. And then there's the floods.
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SINGAPORE A giant water spout was spotted off the coast of Singapore yesterday. Television stations were inundated with calls from people thinking they were seeing a tornado.
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Darkening skies and a light morning drizzle blanketed the fields while combines harvested corn and tractor-trailers hauled away this year's crop. Even though he knew what was coming, Brian Watkins hopped out of his pickup truck and stepped into his office to check the weather forecast on his computer.