In 1024, Rajendra Chola dreamt up the grandest, riskiest, campaign ever planned by a medieval Indian ruler: an attack across ...

Now that I am older and presumably wiser, I want to revisit places I didn’t think much about when visited in my youth.

Filming the BBC's landmark series Asia took its crew on a four-year-long ... wildlife but a meteorological oddity. The Khareef is a monsoon rain system that visits the Dhofar Mountains in Oman.

The entire region is affected by the monsoon winds ... The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map ...

I grew up on an island in a small town pretty much like Sequim. In such a place everyone knows everyone else and their kids, ...

As they span significant areas of Asia, Europe and the Americas ... is exposed during the monsoon rainy seasons. See the full-scale Karst Bedrock Map in China. Many of Yunnan’s poorest counties are ...

Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached an altitude of more than 4,300 meters, was the scene of the ...

Kerala has launched an advanced weather alert system to cope with disasters ...

Forecast (prognostic) maps are also available ... easterlies include the southeast trade winds, monsoon lows and sometimes tropical cyclones (known as hurricanes in the Americas and typhoons in Asia).

Six months ago, Asia’s Iron Lady, Sheikh Hasina, fell dramatically from power. What happened?

Clouds swarm up over the Bay of Bengal around the South Peninsula of India and the island of Sri Lanka on Monday as an easterly wave is in the process of crossing over, likely bringing moderate to ...

Some areas in Luzon will have light rains while due to the northeast monsoon, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said Monday. "The northeast ...