Drought, floods and a lack of fresh water may cause significant global instability and conflict in the coming decades, as developing countries scramble to meet demand from exploding populations while dealing with the effects of climate change, U.S. intelligence agencies …
As word reached Madagascar’s capital that 65 people were killed in the southeast in landslides and floods caused by a tropical storm, the prime minister set out Tuesday to lead an emergency mission to the hardest hit regions. The storm, …
As floods and tornadoes wreaked havoc last year, the Missouri National Guard spent $117,100 so Gov. Jay Nixon and members of his administration could get a birds-eye view of the damage from military aircraft, according to records obtained by The …
Civil defense officials say floods and mudslides caused by heavy rains have killed at least eight people and forced more than 13,000 to leave their homes in southeastern Brazil. The civil defense department in Minas Gerais state says Wednesday on …
The impact from Thailand floods on Asia’s production networks may last longer and be deeper than that from Japan’s March earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, a senior Asian Development Bank official said on Tuesday. Iwan Azis, head of ADB’s Office …
A valve malfunction in the plumbing system at the Hinds County Courthouse sent water cascading from ceilings. Desks in Circuit Clerk Barbara Dunn’s office on the basement floor received the most damage in Thursday’s flood. But there was water in …
Thailand may lose a quarter of its main rice crop in the nation’s worst flooding in decades, the government estimates, which could boost prices of the staple and further squeeze shipments from the world’s top exporter. The flood damage to …
Thailand battled to protect the capital Bangkok from being swamped by water on Friday, with canals full to the brim after devastating floods across the region that sources in neighbouring Myanmar said had killed at least 100 people there. After …
Floods, drought and other nasty weather have made all of Louisiana – and 27 adjacent counties in Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas – an agricultural disaster area for 2011. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says its declaration is based on combined …
Thirteen mobile home parks in Vermont were flooded when the remnants of Hurricane Irene turned streams and rivers into raging waterways that carried away bridges and large segments of roads. Now those homeowners – many of them with no flood …