A study says that the world is seeing more rain overall, but it's also getting drier. The confounding findings reveal a big ...

A Dartmouth study shows that annual rainfall in much of the world has consolidated over the past four decades into heavier ...

Sure, we've all heard of the urban heat island effect, where cities are hotter than surrounding rural areas. Now scientists have discovered a similar urban "rain island effect," where cities appear to ...

Climate change makes the southern Amazon's rain increasingly sensitive to deforestation, a new study finds. Clearing large areas of forest can trigger severe and lasting reductions in rainfall ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As extreme weather events have hit the world hard in recent years, one meteorology term — atmospheric rivers — has made the leap from scientific circles to common language, ...

Scientists say they have the first direct evidence that seeds can sense the sound of rain, and will sprout faster when they do.

The loss of tropical forests disturbs not only the local ecosystem, but has a ripple effect that can result in less rainfall hundreds of miles away, according to new research. In a study published in ...

Rain on Earth is something that we've come to know well. It's relatively predictable in size and shape, and while we're noticing more extreme weather and lack of rain in some parts of the world ...