In honour of World Meteorological Day today, here are some of Earth’s most fascinating extreme weather events.

The 1931 China floods are often cited as the deadliest weather event in recorded history. This calamity resulted in an estimated 1 to 4 million deaths, a staggering number that still echoes ...

"That people pull down their houses, sell their wives and daughters, eat roots and carrion, clay and leaves, is news nobody wonders at. It is the regular thing . . . The poorest people ...

Dr. William Crocker, first Managing Director of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research         By Mary Hoar, City of ...

China approved the world's largest hydropower project to begin construction, citing the economic benefits and need to shift ...

[Photo by Wang Zhuangfei/chinadaily.com.cn] China has made remarkable strides in mitigating flooding losses as it strives to strengthen its flood control capabilities in response to increasingly ...

southwestern China. These young people display signs that read “begging” while partaking in leisure activities – igniting widespread conversations online. A man surnamed Yang, who once ...

WASHINGTON--China’s burgeoning production of electric ... for the potential to flood our markets with exports that make it difficult for American firms to compete,” Yellen told reporters ...

The slump is also caused by the drop in buying virgin material, which is flooding the market (primarily from China).” Out of all the large English cities, Bristol recycles the most rubbish ...