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How southern Africa’s maize crop heartland is bouncing back stronger

THE fields of Zimbabwe and its neighbours in the Southern African Development Community tell a story of remarkable resilience these days. Just a couple of years ago, the brutal El Niño drought slashed ...
La Niña, a Pacific cooling pattern, has emerged for the fifth time in six years, threatening California with drought and disrupting global weather. Recent La Niña events have caused $258 billion to ...
Heavy rain and milder temperatures are expected towards week's end, as a cold front is expected to move through the area.
A weak La Niña emerged in the equatorial Pacific in late 2025, and scientists are watching how it may help shape weather and ...
The recent weather in Tennessee seems like the perfect time for snow, but that likely won't happen until after the new year.
A transition into neutral and even an El Niño status in 2026 will have significant climate impacts across the U.S. and around the world.
New Jersey is declaring a state of emergency due to a shortage of propane that could prevent more than 180,000 people from receiving heat in a period of bitter cold during La Niña winter.
Like Frank Sinatra once crooned, "It was a very good year." The book on the 2025 hurricane season closed Sunday with no hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 2015, something ...
Everyone in Southern California knows La Niña winters are typically dry. Yet this year has seen an unusual, surprisingly wet start to the rainy season. What gives?
CLEVELAND — Hundreds of years ago, fishermen casting their nets off the coast of Peru and Ecuador noticed something unusual. Every few years, the ocean water in their usually productive fishing ...