Lake disappears suddenly in Chile
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Experts try to establish what  caused the disappearance of a glacial lake in southern Chile over just a few weeks.
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Text of report by Kazakh newspaper Megapolis on 4 September  The level of water in the Shardara reservoir has gone down below the critical level for the first time in many years. Doctors are concerned about the possibility of break-out of infectious diseases in South Kazakhstan Region.
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A sudden influx of freshwater from North America's ancient Lake Agassiz to the North Atlantic 8,200 years ago triggered a precipitous cooling of the region, scientists believe. Now they are trying to predict if and when a similar scenario might happen again.
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More than 4,000 overseas tourists from nations worldwide are missing three days after 10-meter (33 feet) waves swept through Asian resorts at the height of the vacation season.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - Heavy rain and flooding  have forced the evacuation of more than 5,000 Costa Ricans, and  left four people missing.
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Searchers looking for a husband and wife missing when their boat capsized in a remote reservoir have found the couple's remains and also discovered four other bodies, thought to be swimmers and boaters who disappeared in the reservoir over the last decade.
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A moderate earthquake shook southern Chile on Friday in a sparsely populated region that seismologists say has recently seen a series of tremors due to the birth of an undersea volcano.
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Around 100 people are missing and feared dead after an evacuation center in the flood-hit eastern Philippine town of Real collapsed, officials said Wednesday.
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A five-year-old Spanish girl has vanished from a Spanish border town, 120 miles from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz where Madeleine McCann went missing last May.
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MARIA ELENA, Chile - A major earthquake crushed cars, damaged thousands of houses, blocked roads, and terrified people for hundreds of miles yesterday. Officials reported at least two deaths and more than 100 injuries.
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By Liz Fabian, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Jun. 14--The search for a missing boater on Lake Sinclair is hampered by a number of factors including the depth, clarity and temperature of the water.
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Something strange happened on the sun last week: all the sunspots vanished. This is a sign, say scientists, that solar minimum is coming sooner than expected.
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SHAVER LAKE, Calif. -- Seizing on a break in the weather Thursday, rescuers managed to locate 19 hikers reported missing in a blizzard that also killed two climbers stranded on the face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
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Beneath the snow, ice and bitter cold of Antarctica, scientists have discovered a network of lakes that fill and empty with rapidly flowing water.
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By Ryan Lillis, M.S. Enkoji and Dorothy Korber, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 27--SOUTH LAKE TAHOE -- One gust and one tree changed the face of the Angora fire Tuesday afternoon as the wind unleashed a new wave of flame that roared toward the lake and sent 2,000 more residents fleeing.
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It looks like a clump of soiled sheep's wool, a cottony green or white mass that's turning up on rocks and river bottoms, snarling waterways. Already a scourge in New Zealand and parts of the American South and West, the aquatic algae called "rock snot" is creeping into New England, where it is turning up in pristine rivers and alarming fishermen and wildlife biologists.
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The glaciers in West Antarctica have substantially increased their rate of shrinkage compared with the 1990s. US-Chilean teams report to the journal Science that the glaciers are losing 60% more ice into the