Dozens of tornadoes swept across America's heartland, impacting millions of residents and leaving a trail of destruction.

A tropical plume sweeping into frozen America threatens an eruption of violent thunderstorms, tornadoes and ‘snow squalls’.

Tornadoes that struck Texas Saturday were the latest in a string of deadly weather events that have killed over two dozen people this weekend in the U.S. In South America and the U.K., torrential ...

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Efforts to stop the spread of infectious disease have always suffered from a cycle of panic and neglect. Vaccine skepticism in the new administration brings even greater challenges.

A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the flames in a raging Pacific Palisades wildfire looks similar to a tornado, but scientists are still examining whether it was a rare fire ...

A tornado is a narrow, violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground. It’s important that children, families and communities understand how to stay safe during a ...

A picture of a man in Canada calmly mowing his lawn with a menacing tornado swirling in the background has gone viral on social media. Theunis Wessels was "fully aware" of the twister but "wasn't ...

He immersed himself in research on tornadoes and introduced the “Fujita Scale”, a six-point scale to classify degrees of tornado intensity.

Three people are dead and more than 172 injured after a rare tornado ripped through Cuba's capital, Havana. With wind speeds of up to 100km/hr (60 mph), the first tornado to hit the city in ...

Mr Noonan, who has been storm chasing for 20 years including stints in America, said it was rare and exciting to capture a tornado in Australia. “It was pretty amazing, it was a day we were ...