Category: Americas

Hermine lashes south Texas, 3 other storms possible

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Hermine barely maintained its tropical storm status on Tuesday as 40 mile per

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Death toll rises to 45 in Guatemala mudslides

Guatemala City – Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus

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Map shows carbon in Peru’s Amazon

A new, highly detailed map of part of Peru's Amazon shows how much climate-warming carbon is stored there, and

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Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distributed sandbags and

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Guatemala: Landslides Bury Dozens

GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) – The death toll from landslides in Guatemala rose to 36 on Sunday as President Alvaro

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Earl loses tropical storm status after soaking Canada

MONTREAL (AFP) – Earl lost its tropical storm status over Canada, US government forecasters announced, but the storm still

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Busted BP well no longer ‘threat’ to Gulf: US official

The Macondo well, which spilled an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, has been

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Earl Causes Outages in Canada

MONTREAL (AFP) – Resilient Tropical Storm Earl raked over eastern Canada Saturday, leaving nearly one million people without power,

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Did Methane Cause latest Gulf Fire?

Mariner Energy (NYSE: ME), owner and operator of the Vermilion 380 offshore production platform that exploded and caught fire

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Earl Heads for New England

CHATHAM, Mass. – A weakening Hurricane Earl swiped past North Carolina on Friday on its way to New England,

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