EL NINO

After a record-smashing hot summer, Earth's warming somehow got even worse in September.

Restrictions on food exports are spilling over from rice and wheat to other essentials.

How hot is Phoenix.

The U.N. weather agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures.

Scientists figure a natural El Nino, human-caused climate change, a stubborn heat dome over the nation’s midsection and other factors cooked up Hilary’s record-breaking slosh into California and Nevada.

Countries worldwide are scrambling to secure rice after a partial ban on exports by India cut global supplies by roughly a fifth.

Forecasters are now calling for a 95% chance of El Nino by December.

Federal forecasters are doubling chances of a nasty Atlantic hurricane season this summer and fall.

Scientists are wondering if global warming and El Nino have an accomplice in fueling this summer’s record-shattering heat.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says an already warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, smashing the old global mark by nearly a quarter of a degree, with global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month.

Scientists say global heat that inched into worrisome new territory this week is a clear example of how pollutants released by humans are warming their environment.

Worldwide temperatures briefly exceeded a key warming threshold earlier this month, drawing notice in the scientific community and prompting public chatter that climate change might be accelerating.

Typhoon Mawar was a Category 4 super typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph or greater when it crossed the northern tip of Guam on Wednesday night.

A new study finds the natural burst of El Nino warming that changes weather worldwide is far costlier with longer-lasting expenses than experts had thought, averaging trillions of dollars in damage.

The United Nations' weather agency says there's a two-out-of-three chance that the world will reach the internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change sometime in the next five years.

In the east and Horn of Africa, a harrowing drought.

After an extended La Nina, the forecast calls for a switch back to a more neutral pattern (not La Nina or El Nino) by this spring.

La Nina, which usually calls for a drier, warmer weather pattern, will be in place for the third winter in a row.

U.S. weather officials say Earth in July was the hottest month ever recorded.