NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – Residents of rural Louisiana watched in despair Sunday as floodwaters from the swollen Mississippi
A 5.0-register earthquake has hit the Chinese province of Sichuan, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, three years after
A worker died at Japan's disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant as emergency crews continued their operations to prevent a
TOKYO (AFP) – A 6.2-magnitude earthquake on Saturday hit off the coast of northeastern Japan, still reeling from the
Costa Rican residents were alarmed when a 6.0-magnitude quake shook the Central American country, causing minor damage but no

JAPAN has detected high radiation levels way above the legal limit in tea grown southwest of Tokyo and blamed
Video Report: A man was lucky enough to capture this footage of two bolts of lightning striking an airplane
Kuala Lumpur. Haze caused by fires burning in Indonesia blanketed parts of Malaysia on Thursday, sending air pollution at
..Environmental activist group Greenpeace said Thursday it had detected radiation far above legal limits in seaweed samples taken from
.The level of industrial and oil pollution in the Caspian Sea has reached a "critical condition," an Iranian ecological