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GENEVA (Reuters) - La Nina, a weather phenomenon usually linked to heavy rains and flooding in Asia-Pacific and South America and drought in Africa, seems to have reached its peak and is expected to fade between March and May, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday. A weak to moderate La Nina pattern has cooled the tropical Pacific since around October, a considerably weaker event than in 2010-11, the United Nations agency said in a statement. [More]

People who live farther from the equator have larger eye sockets than their tropical counterparts, a new study finds. And as people inhabited higher and higher latitudes , eye socket size grew along with the northerly or southerly extent of their migrations. [More]

iStockphoto/africa924africa924 PHILADELPHIA Severe malnourishment of mothers and their children can cause lifelong growth deficiencies and health problems, warned scientists at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting in Philadelphia on Wednesday. But a lack of nutritious food isn t the only culprit

By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Lee threatened the Louisiana coast with torrential rains and flooding on Friday and shut nearly half of U.S. offshore crude oil production and a third of its gas production.

Yesterday, Hurricane Irene weakened to become Tropical Storm Irene - but not before leaving at least 4 million homes without power and causing fuel shortages along the United State's Atlantic coast. [More]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Beatriz, the second named storm of the Pacific hurricane season, should become a hurricane later on Monday as it heads toward Mexican tourist beaches, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

When Air France Flight 447 disappeared in June 2009, it was in the middle of the tropical Atlantic and had likely entered a mesoscale convective complex , a system of strong thunderstorms thought to have been at least four storms deep along 447's flight path. Flight 447 was also flying at a cruise altitude of 35,000 feet, an altitude where the relationship between an aircraft's stall speed and the speed of sound has gained the name "the coffin corner"