The land surface is not passive within the climate system. It doesn't simply respond to changes in meteorological conditions or uses, such as deforestation. Instead, land changes can also feed back ...

Every year, tropical forests release countless litres of water into the atmosphere, generating rain. New research has estimated the value of this ecosystem service at billions of pounds every year, ...

Clouds floating over withered crops and desiccated soil hold millions of tonnes of water that could nourish the land and replenish our wells. What if humans could force those clouds to produce rain ...

Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing ...

A flash flood is a flood that rises and falls quite rapidly with little or no advance warning, usually the result of intense rainfall over a relatively small area. 1 Most flash floods in the United ...

LUBBOCK, TX (KLBK) – The different types of precipitation during winter are determined by temperature variations throughout the troposphere – the portion of the atmosphere where our weather occurs.