A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the ...

Tropical Storm Rafael is expected to become a hurricane on Tuesday, but it faces several hurdles before a U.S. landfall.

A new study led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden has uncovered a ...

Neglected Tropical Diseases can spread through different modes like contaminated water, insect vectors and poor hygiene practices. These factors insinuate that poverty and lack of hygiene enhances ...

Depending on where they form, tropical storms are also known as hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. Tropical storms form over warm oceans and travel from east to west. Tropical storms bring with ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred was no normal cyclone. Firstly, it moved the wrong way. Most cyclones that form in the Coral Sea move east then out to sea by the time they get as far south as Brisbane.

Zoonotic and other infectious diseases are emerging and reemerging rapidly in recent times owing to altered climatic conditions, changing lifestyles, and unhealthy living conditions. The WHO listed 20 ...

The analysis shows that over the past 5,700 years, the frequency of tropical storms and hurricanes in the region has steadily increased. For the 21st century, the research team predicts a ...

Until now, the oldest evidence of human occupation in African tropical forests dated back to about 18,000 years ago. In Southeast Asia, traces went back 70,000 years.