Science & Environment
More than 200 dead after 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Mexico
Desperate rescue workers scrabbled through rubble in a floodlit search on Wednesday for dozens of children feared buried under a Mexico City ...Hurricane Maria bears down on battered Caribbean
Hurricane Maria strengthened rapidly on Monday as it blasted towards the eastern Caribbean, forcing exhausted islanders -- still recovering from megastorm Irma ...Hurricane Irma kills 10, may hit Florida Sunday as Category 4
Hurricane Irma plowed past the Dominican Republic toward Haiti on Thursday after devastating a string of Caribbean islands and killing at least ...Harvey turns deadly, lashing Texas with torrential rain
Tropical Storm Harvey lashed central Texas with torrential rains on Sunday, unleashing "catastrophic" floods after the megastorm -- the most powerful to ...Nearly 500 dead in Sierra Leone mudslides
Rescue workers have unearthed 499 dead bodies since last week\'s devastating landslide near the Sierra Leone capital Freetown, the city\'s chief coroner ...At least 312 dead in Sierra Leone mudslides and flooding
At least 312 people were killed and more than 2,000 left homeless on Monday when heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone\'s capital of ...Floods kill 175 in India, Nepal and Bangladesh
At least 175 people have died and thousands have fled their homes as monsoon floods swept across Nepal, India and Bangladesh, officials ...Rome mayor demands emergency measures as water rationing looms
The mayor of Rome urged the government on Friday to intervene to prevent water rationing in the drought-hit Italian capital.Wildfires force evacuation of 12,000 in French Riviera towns
Backed by planes dropping water and fire retardant, more than 1,000 firefighters battled wildfires Wednesday that billowed smoke into the sky over ...Western Canada wildfires prompt evacuations of thousands in British Colombia
Thousands of residents in the interior of Western Canada\'s British Columbia province have evacuated their homes because of two rapidly spreading wildfires ...




