Geographical Research has launched a special themed issue spotlighting the water crisis in Australia.

October 19, 2007 -- AccuWeather.com reports that the cold front slicing across the country today will reach the Southeast, a day after tropical moisture sparked damaging storms along the Gulf Coast.

An ecologist at Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that after ponds dry up through drought in a region, when they revive, the community of species in each pond tends to be very similar to one another, like so many suburban houses made of ticky tacky.

Computer models of how our world will react to climate change have long predicted extreme and shifting weather patterns. More heavy rains in some areas, crippling drought in others. A new study, published this week in the journal Nature, compared recorded precipitation to predicted precipitation - and confirmed we're changing our weather.

Australia is struggling with the effects of a five-year drought and no relief appears in sight. As Phil Mercer in Sydney reports on this World Water Day, some Australian experts fear the so-called "Big Dry" may become a permanent climate feature of the country in part due to global warming.