Natural Disasters News

A fire burning on Travis Air Force Base Saturday had destroyed at least 40 vacant homes that were scheduled for demolition, fire officials said.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Friday said he would allow military planes to resume training at the Warren Grove Gunnery Range, just over a year after a flare touched off a massive forest fire.

Alabama, Mississippi and other Gulf states have changed the way they distribute federal grants to catfish farmers after an audit found that millions of dollars in hurricane aid may have gone to farmers who ...

Southern Poland was hardest hit, with three deaths and 34 injuries when a tornado and heavy rain storms late Friday tore the roofs off homes, knocked down trees and overturned vehicles.

Traffic was moving slowly Saturday morning along a central Newfoundland section of the Trans-Canada Highway that had been closed the night before because of flooding.

Residents of Peru's southern coast took to the streets Friday to protest the government's response to an magnitude-8.0 earthquake a year ago that left tens of thousands homeless.

Jackson County authorities are investigating an increasing number of reports of livestock cruelty because of the drought.

Updated August 15, 2008, at 6:45 p.m. The cluster of nasty weather that's had South Florida on its toes all day has finally become Tropical Storm Fay.

When a firefighting helicopter went down in Northern California last week, killing nine and injuring four, the mountain crash site was so remote that it could only be reached by air or a full day's hike.

Twice this week, tows pushing barges on the Mississippi north of St. Louis have become stuck in dirt and sand in the navigation channel.

Oregonians are bracing for a heat wave that could bring three straight days of 100-plus degree weather to the usually temperate Willamette Valley.

Thousands of people are expected at a public memorial in Oregon on Friday for nine people who died in a helicopter crash while working at a wildfire in Northern California.

Indian tribes from the Klamath River canyon are worried that the U.S. Forest Service is violating some of their sacred lands by fighting a remote wilderness wildfire rather than letting it burn naturally.

When hurricane season heats up, bad things sometimes come in pairs. That was the case this week as two tropical waves spurred South Florida residents to perk up and keep an eye on the powder-white masses ...

Faced with hundreds of big, hard-to-control blazes, California is struggling with what could be its most expensive wildfire season ever, burning through $285 million in the last six weeks alone and up to $13 ...

A wildfire burning on the Colville Indian reservation that blew up this weekend, stopped growing last night.

China's government estimates it will cost $147 billion to rebuild from the massive earthquake that struck the central part of the country in May, according to state media.

An earthquake expert warns that the biggest blow from a major seismic event in the Midwest could strike the nation's economy.

Sanford asks for federal drought assistance Posted: Updated: COLUMBIA, SC - Governor Mark Sanford has asked that all but two of South Carolina's counties be declared federal disaster areas because of the ...

Authorities in northeast Nevada reported no damage or injuries after magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported just before 4 a.m. north of the northeast Nevada town of Wells.