Japan’s southernmost islet is so small at nine square meters it conjures up comparisons to boats and bedrooms. Curiously, the government in Tokyo has spent an estimated $600 million on ...

The tropical region faces several challenges such as climate change, deforestation, logging, urbanisation and demographic changes. The Human System.

From 10,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, the tropical island of Tarawa resembles the final, vanishing sliver of a waning moon -- a razor-thin curve of shimmering green floating in a vast dark ocean.

Storm tracker: Hurricane forecasters watch tropical waves and more The National Hurricane Center does not expect tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic during the next seven days, but ...

Roughly 80 tropical waves are found across the Atlantic basin in a given year, said Landsea, who has studied tropical waves for decades. Between 40 and 60 of those emerge off the African Coast ...

While Saharan dust and wind shear suppress tropical development in the Atlantic, the eastern Pacific has come alive, one of two active tropical cyclones becoming a hurricane.

First tropical storm of the year could come weeks earlier than normal. A tropical depression is projected to form by mid-week in the eastern Pacific. Julia Musto. in New York.

A satellite image shows Tropical Storm Alvin, Thursday, May 29, 2025. AP. The tropical storm is not only the first of the season in the Eastern Pacific, but across all ocean basins that make up ...

Tropical Storm Debby is nearing the South Carolina coastline with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph ahead of its expected landfall early Thursday morning. Located about 25 miles east-northeast of ...