M ost of us look forward to the relief brought in by the monsoons — the fragrance of rain on parched earth, the lush trees ...

As the parched earth gets wet, a distinctive fragrance arises ... capturing that smell of the season's first rain in little bottles. As for the term petrichor, it was coined in 1960s after ...

Drought relief has come at a price in Spain, as flash floods forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes, closed schools and highways and swept cars away.

Weathering and erosion slowly chisel, polish, and buff Earth's rock into ever evolving ... high in the mountains to sandstone arches in the parched desert to polished cliffs braced against violent ...

Madrid got more rain in the first three weeks of March than ... speeding up the hydrological cycle in which water moves between Earth and the atmosphere. That is triggering more extreme weather ...