Allison is one of the poster children that illustrate water is the deadliest weapon a tropical storm or hurricane has. This ...

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Sea surface more than 5C above average, endangering marine life as Europe swelters under record early summer temperatures ...

On November 12, 1970, a cyclone hit the country of Bangladesh (which was known as East Pakistan at the time) that through a ...

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Dozens of people are being evacuated by helicopter in Austria after a mudslide covered homes and mountain huts in the ...

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As many as 3.4 million Californians could lose their state Medi-Cal health insurance under the budget bill making its way through the U.S. Senate, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday.

Dozens of people were being evacuated by helicopter in Austria on Tuesday after a mudslide covered homes and mountain huts in the Gschnitztal valley in Tyrol in the southwest of the Alpine country.