
The massive drought that has dried out Texas over the past year has killed as many as half a
An iceberg nearly 100 kilometres (60 miles) long was Wednesday preventing tourist ships from reaching Antarctica to mark the

..TOKYO (Reuters) - Decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will take three or four decades, Japan's government said on

Taiwanese authorities said Thursday they had slaughtered nearly 1,000 pigs following the island's worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in

A town in Western Australia's Pilbara region has been feeling the heat, sizzling through the second-hottest December day ever

The United Nations is calling for about $28 million in funding to help those affected by last weekend's devastating

A Dutch laboratory claiming to have developed a deadly strain of bird flu wants to publish its research, sparking
More than a thousand people are dead or missing after flash floods that ravaged the southern Philippines, the government
A small earthquake occurred in Lancashire over the weekend, seismologists have confirmed. The British Geological Survey (BGS), which records all
Philippine rescuers have struggled against mud, fatigue and the stench of death to help dazed survivors of devastating flash