As global temperatures rise, thermal expansion of oceans and melting ice sheets are driving up sea levels worldwide. In many coastal areas, land subsidence—caused by groundwater extraction and rapid ...

Two women and a child were swept away by a giant wave while taking a selfie amidst Typhoon Ragasa in Hong Kong.

HONG KONG -- The much weaker Tropical Storm Ragasa pushed west along the southern Chinese coast toward Vietnam on Thursday after flooding streets and homes in the economic hub of Guangdong province ...

HONG KONG — Tropical Storm Matmo edged closer to the Philippines on Thursday and was expected to intensify into a typhoon that could threaten southern China this weekend, just about a week after the ...

Nearly 2 million people in southern China were evacuated as a powerful typhoon hurtled into one of the world’s most densely populated coasts, having already unleashed deadly flooding in Taiwan.

The strongest tropical storm of 2025 claimed 14 more lives after it caused a mountain lake in Taiwan to burst, sending a wall of water onto the town below.

Dozens of people were injured in Hong Kong as the year’s most powerful storm passed close to the city and triggered flooding and landslides.

Storm systems brought widespread heavy rain across eastern and northern Japan on Wednesday, October 1. In Miyagi Prefecture, weather alerts were issued as torrential rainfall of approximately 100 mm ...

Schools and flights were canceled across southern China and many businesses were closed ahead of the storm, one of the world’s strongest this year.

After making landfall in the northern Philippines on Monday, Ragasa headed back out to sea and barreled toward southern China on Tuesday, prompting the cancellation of hundreds of flights, mass ...