Category: Americas

Canada wild fires force thousands to flee

Thousands have been forced to flee their homes as towns are threatened by wildfires sweeping through the Canadian province

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Severe Storms hit Kentucky & Indiana

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Heavy thunderstorms fed floods in Kentucky and Indiana on Tuesday, shutting down a university campus in

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Treatment resistant swine flu detected in US

Health officials said they had found cases of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu along the US border with Mexico, as India

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Tree-killing fungus attacks avocados

A tree-killing fungus near Florida's Everglades National Park could harm the area's $12.7 million avocado industry, agriculture officials said.

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Latest Earthquakes

Strong earthquake shakes southern Peru LIMA, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake of magnitude 5 shook Monday the city

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King salmon vanishing in Alaska

ANCHORAGE — Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon — long used

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Massive explosion of fierce forest fires ravage western Canada

Firefighters in British Columbia struggled Sunday morning to contain some 500 forest fires that have forced the evacuation of

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Climate change: ‘Feedback’ triggers could amplify peril

PARIS (AFP) – New studies have warned of triggers in the natural environment, including a greenhouse-gas timebomb in Siberia

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Global warming seen worse than predicted

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The climate is heating up far faster than scientists had predicted, spurred by sharp increases in

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8,000 evacuated as Galeras erupts

PASTO, Colombia (AFP) - - Galeras volcano in southern Colombia, near the border with Ecuador, began erupting and some

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