Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. A typhoon expected to cause chaos in Japan this weekend has led to England's tie with France in the Rugby World Cup ...

Hurricanes (called typhoons in the western Pacific and tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean) can propel themselves to an altitude of 50,000 feet (15,240 meters) or more, where the rising air ...

Depending on where they form, tropical storms are also known as hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. Tropical storms form over warm oceans and travel from east to west. Tropical storms bring with ...

A hurricane or typhoon is a type of tropical cyclone, or severe tropical storm. They form in almost all ocean basins. A typical cyclone is accompanied by thunderstorms, and in the Northern ...

Attempts at artificially controlling typhoons are nothing new. The United States repeatedly conducted experiments, until sometime around 1970, on dropping silver iodide into hurricanes in the ...