Forecasters have downgraded Tropical Storm Beryl from a hurricane to a tropical storm as it continues to crawl toward the deep south Texas and Mexico....

A fast-moving Colorado wildfire that forced a tourist evacuation at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado had grown to 1,000 acres by Friday, fire offi...

Popocatepetl, a 17,886-foot-high volcano about 40 miles southeast of Mexico City, sent ash up for about six minutes, shortly after 8 p.m.. The ash was...

A tornado touched down Friday at a crowded campground in the western Canadian province of Alberta, tossing trailers into a lake and killing at least e...

Colorado Wildfire, Strong, erratic winds grounded firefighting aircraft Tuesday as flames from a 4,000-acre wildfire in the foothills jumped from tree...

Nearly 20,000 people have fled in front of the wind-driven firestorm as firefighters battled the flames around the town where the atomic bomb was buil...

Volcanic activity has increased around Mount Usu in northern Japan, and seismology experts said Friday a new 10-meter crater had formed, threatening a...

A tornado ripped through the southern Louisiana town of Houma on Wednesday, damaging more than two dozen homes and causing the roof of a shopping cent...

Streams of lava continued to spew down the snow-covered slopes of Mount Hekla in southern Iceland on Monday following a weekend eruption of the countr...

Groups who fought for East Timor's independence from Indonesia met secretly in Singapore on Sunday, February 27, with representatives from pro-Ja...

State Police say one person died and one escaped after an avalanche on the eastern face of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. The avalanche occurred S...

Gov. Tony Knowles has declared a disaster emergency for south-central Alaska after the state's worst avalanches in decades stranded thousands of ...

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