Natural Disasters News

Meter reader Laura Rodelas of the Alameda County Water District works along South Grimmer Boulevard on Friday afternoon, March 7, 2014, in Fremont, Calif.

HE was one of the heroes of last January's Dunalley bushfire emergency, standing shoulder to shoulder with fellow volunteers to fight the Tasman Peninsula blazes just nine days after losing his wife of 35 years.

S REPORT FINDS THE LARGEST EARTHQUAKES ON RECORD IN OKLAHOMA WERE TRIGGERED BY OIL AND GAS ACTIVITY.

This October 2008 photo, provided by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, shows a brown bat with white nose fungus in New York.

DESPITE roads having dried up around the county after the floods, six areas across Oxfordshire are still hit by closures, with residents unable to get out and about.

A Corps of Engineers official says the mountain snowpack in the Missouri River's upper basin is close to levels seen before 2011 flooding on the river.

A federal audit has found New Jersey did nothing wrong when it used a no-bid contract to hire a firm to clean up debris left behind by Superstorm Sandy in 2012 .

An Army captain at the center of a sexual assault case that has rocked the military testified Friday that a general twice forced her to perform oral sex on him during their three-year, illicit affair.

Bowing to the Pentagon, the Senate agreed after impassioned debate Thursday to leave the authority to prosecute rapes and other serious crimes with U.S. military commanders in a struggle that highlighted the growing role of women in Congress.

From the beginning, the U.S. government's decade-long crackdown on abuse of prescription drugs has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use.

You walk out of 300: Rise of an Empire feeling like you were just at a Gallagher show, only swap the watermelon remnants for fake movie blood.

A new study shows that more than half the survivors in one Japanese town exhibited 'clinically concerning' symptoms of PTSD following the country's mega-earthquake and tsunami.

Following the self-described "worst" seasonal hurricane forecast in 30 years in 2013, Colorado State University meteorologists Phil Klotzbach and William Gray were at risk of losing funding for their well-known Tropical Meteorology Project.

Anchorage musher Scott Janssen, home from the Iditarod with a broken ankle, will be one of the first to tell you that among the benefits of mushing nearly a thousand miles across Alaska are the stunning views.

Another huge sockeye salmon run is forecast to return to the Fraser River this summer, potentially even bigger than the modern record of 30 million that unexpectedly came back in 2010.

Although the storms that walloped California last week eased the state's drought slightly, "short-term benefits from the storms were mostly offset by still-large, three-year precipitation deficits, low reservoir levels, and a sub-par snowpack," according to this week's U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday morning.

Federal forecasters predict a warming of the central Pacific Ocean this year that will change weather worldwide.

A new A 20.5 million action plan to protect Somerset from flooding has been announced by Environment Secretary Owen Paterson.

Is it possible to improve tolerance of trees to high temperatures and other types of stress derived of climate change? Scientists are studying the tolerance of trees using molecular and biotechnological tools.

In this photo from Sept. 19, 2011, a pool of receding water left behind by the Missouri River flooding, reveals land erosion to a corn field near Takamah, Neb.