Hurricane Gustav weakened into a tropical storm late Monday night, several hours after making landfall about 100 kilometres from the still-fragile city of New Orleans. In its 11 p.m. report, the U.S.

Seven of the top 11 highest-volume precipitation events over the past 77 years have occurred just in the past 10 years.

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April rain in Houston is running above normal, but spring rainfall remains uncertain as La Niña ends and drought persists in ...

Montgomery County Precinct 2’s new emergency management building is nearing completion and is expected to give west county crews quicker access to disaster supplies.

Low-income homeowners worry they may now face new costs before seeing the kind of public investment they have demanded for ...

Powerful winds from Hurricane Humberto began hitting Bermuda on Wednesday as the government urged people to stay off the streets during the British territory's close brush with the powerful Category 3 ...

A storm system that tore through the Mid-South earlier this week is now taking aim at the Gulf Coast, and federal forecasters ...

New Orleans, New York cited as most vulnerable ...

On 20 April the Science Media Centre published expert responses to the overwhelming Wellington floods which hit the wider region with such unexpected suddenness, intensity and devastation: Expert ...

Studies sound the alarm over the risks Superfund sites face due to a variety of factors related to climate change, such as ...