A scientist working for the government issued a warning 15 years ago about the potential for a catastrophic landslide in the northwestern U.S. fishing village where the collapse of a rain-soaked hillside over the weekend killed at least 16 people and left scores missing. ...
The annual cost of damage caused by flooding in Japan is estimated to triple by the end of this century to ¥680 billion due to global warming, a government research team said Monday. A rise in the average annual temperature of between 3.5 and ...
Volcanoes spewing sun-reflecting particles into the atmosphere have partly offset the effects of man’s carbon emissions over the last 15 years, a period that has become a battleground in the ongoing debate over global warming, researchers said Sunday. A so-called hiatus in warming since ...
Residents of a village west of London evoked the wartime spirit that got the British capital through the Blitz as they faced freak floods after the Thames burst its banks, but there was frustration at the lack of official help. In normally tranquil Wraysbury, ...
Britain deployed Royal Marines on Thursday to help with devastating floods after what officials said was likely the worst winter rainfall in 250 years. Around 40 marines were helping reinforce flood defenses near Taunton in Somerset, southwest England, parts of which have been under ...
As children climb into boats to get to school and scores of hoses pump floodwaters from fields day and night, one corner of southwest England is trying to reclaim its land. Other Britons are watching them and wondering how much and for how long ...
The anti-immigration U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) on Sunday suspended a local councilor who blamed recent flooding across Britain on the government’s decision to legalize gay marriage. David Silvester, a devout Christian who defected from Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party in protest at last ...
Two people were killed Sunday and more than 150 had to be airlifted to safety after “historic” floods struck southeastern France, local authorities said. A third man disappeared while out on his boat, and 4,000 homes had been left without power after the inundations ...
Thousands of people are fleeing rising floodwaters in a fresh round of evacuations in the southern Philippines, officials said Friday as the death toll from a week of bad weather rose to 34. At least 8,000 people fled villages along the flooded banks of ...
China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan are set to be nailed by powerful typhoons because water is warming in the western Pacific, according to a three-decade study published Thursday. Researchers led by Chang-Hoi Ho from Seoul National University looked at five sets of background ...
Christmas lights blink in a handful of restaurants in Tacloban, but at nightfall, much of this city flattened by Typhoon Haiyan slips into darkness. A few downtown shops have reopened. Roadside vendors peddle fruits of the season: oranges and red apples. There is rebuilding, ...
Kyojima in eastern Tokyo is a perfect storm of natural-disaster risk, but while the metropolitan government is trying to get old people out, young people are moving in.
