Category: Americas

Landslide kills 5 in Mexico

A landslide buried several cars and killed at least five people in the latest disaster blamed on weeks of

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5.9 Earthquake hits Peru’s coast

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 was reported near central Peru's coast. The

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Igor skirts east Canada, Tropical Storm Lisa forms

MIAMI (Reuters) – Hurricane Igor raced past the southeast tip of Newfoundland in Canada on Tuesday, buffeting offshore energy

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Disasters mirror climate models: US environment chief

PARIS (AFP) – The flurry of exceptional weather disasters in recent years is completely consistent with scenarios about an

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Looting in hurricane hit Mexico

LOOTERS ransacked destroyed homes and businesses in eastern Mexico yesterday after Hurricane Karl passed through, leaving at least 12

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Frankenfish likely to be approved

A panel of scientific experts has begun two days of hearings in Washington to decide whether a genetically modified

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Hurricane Igor heads north after battering Bermuda

HAMILTON (Reuters) – Hurricane Igor barreled north on Monday on a path expected to take it near Newfoundland and

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1 Missing as rain pounds Texas coast

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Relentless rainfall brought partly from Hurricane Karl caused widespread problems up and down the Texas

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World powers to tackle climate amid skepticism

The 17 nations responsible for 80 percent of carbon emissions blamed for global warming will seek to unblock stalled

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BP’s Gulf of Mexico well is ‘dead’

US officials have finally declared BP's broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico "dead", five months after the

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