Officials in Des Moines are looking for money to buy more properties in a flood-prone area of the city. City Manager Rick Clark says that flooding in the Four Mile Creek area is “uncontrolled” — and that recent heavy rains …
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world to provide more aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan on Sunday as the 20 million people made homeless grew increasingly desperate and new torrents inundated villages. Survivors fought over food being handed out from a …
The Arkansas Forestry Commission says crews suppressed six wildfires that have burned 17 acres since Thursday afternoon. Officials said Friday that crews have responded to 102 fires that have burned 1,054 acres since Aug. 1. There were no reports of …
The federal government is affirming it will pay 90 percent of the disaster recovery costs from tornadoes and floods that hit Mississippi in late April and early May. U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran announced the federal share Thursday. The usual cost-sharing …
Alabama will get some $1 million in federal cash for the city of Albertville’s recovery from April’s tornado and storms. U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency would award …
Alabama is suing BP Plc, Transocean and Halliburton for “catastrophic harm” caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the state’s attorney general said Friday. Alabama is the first state to sue BP for damage from the world’s worst offshore …
An area of low pressure moving over the Florida Panhandle was expected to track southward into the northern Gulf of Mexico by early Monday and had a 50 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, …
Fears that fires scorching forests polluted by Chernobyl fallout may propel dangerous amounts of radioactivity into the air are overblown, scientists say, and the actual health risks are very small. Even firefighters tackling the blazes, which officials say have hit …
Asia’s heavy monsoons, a record heatwave in Russia and severe droughts in Africa show the need for new yardsticks to rate extreme weather to guide everybody from road builders to insurance companies, a U.N. expert said on Friday. Scales exist …
The National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and is headed toward the oil spill site off the coast of Louisiana. BP and Coast Guard officials had already decided to stop drilling on …
