Natural Disasters News

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a far-reaching water bond intended to rebuild California's crumbling water system and fund new dams to save up the precious resource for dry years.

Health officials in North Carolina say two pregnant women were among five people who died of pandemic H1N1 flu or similar symptoms in one week.

Rescue workers are searching through mud, rubble and debris for survivors after raging floods and landslides that have killed at least 136 people in El Salvador.

Oil prices shot above $80 a barrel Monday as a weakened U.S. dollar created more turbulence in energy markets than a tropical storm heading into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency sold 1,047 units that had been stored at the Hope Municipal Airport for $7.2 million.

The founder and editor-in-chief of a Chinese magazine known for pushing boundaries with the country's censors and chasing stories that could embarrass the government resigned Monday amid friction with her publisher, colleagues and the magazine said.

The Afghan government has declared a state of emergency, closing schools, universities, wedding halls and even public bathrooms for three weeks to slow the spread of the H1N1 flu virus, which has killed 10 people in the capital in less than two weeks.

Heavy rains triggered flash floods that killed two people and forced thousands to evacuate their homes in northern Malaysia, officials said Monday.

OTTAWA a ' With H1N1 now accounting for virtually all the flu being diagnosed in Canada, critics say Canada was wrong not to have halted production of the regular seasonal flu shots and switched production to H1N1 vaccine sooner.

A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake has shaken Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Sunday.

Roland Emmerich professes to be tired of blowing up the world. It's an ironic thought here, in the shadow of the Grand Tetons, the outer reaches of the Yellowstone Park super-volcano that some day will erupt in an extinction-level event.

There have been no reports of casualties and building collapses after a moderate earthquake hit Xigaze Prefecture of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region early Sunday morning, local government sources said.

NORTHWESTWARD... A HURRICANE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE YUCATAN PENINSULA OF MEXICO FROM TULUM TO CABO CATOCHE.

Authorities are saying that a tornado whipped through the coastal town of Lincoln City Friday night around 9 p.m. The severe weather tore roofs off vacation cottages and shattered windows on at least one parked car.

EMERGENCY services are helping residents on the NSW mid-north coast mop up after torrential rain, as 200 people remain cut-off by floodwater.

Clinton also announced she will join President Barack Obama during his visit to China from November 15-18, her second trip as chief diplomat to the country the Obama administration recognizes as a key global player.

While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same.

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 at 3:45 a.m. EST shows clear skies over much of the East as a high pressure system continues to dominate the area, bringing dry conditions.

With the drought conditions of the past couple of years washed away by above average rainfall this summer and autumn, the wildfire season has begun in Tennessee.

Former Hurricane Ida drenched Central America as a tropical depression on Friday and forecasters said it had some chance of regaining force and heading toward the U.S. Ida had winds of 75 mph when it hit the central Nicraguan coast on Thursday, but it quickly lost force as it slogged inland and winds were down to about 35 mph Friday morning, ...