Rising water trapped dead cavers
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Rescuers say a man and woman found dead in a cave in North Yorkshire were trapped by rising water.
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OLD ADAMINABY, Australia  - Drowned 50 years ago for progress and the promise of near limitless water, the town of Old Adaminaby has re-emerged from its sunken grave as drought ravages one of Australia's biggest lakes.
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By SAMANTHA YOUNG  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two state divers who died while inspecting an aqueduct that supplies water to millions of people relied on recreational equipment that is considered unsafe for the conditions they faced, industry and diving experts said Thursday.
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As they prepared to retrieve the body of one climber, authorities worry that two others may have fallen down a steep slope
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - Hopes of saving 15 miners trapped deep underground in a Polish coal mine faded on Wednesday as rising gas levels and flooding forced a temporary break in rescue efforts.
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For more than a decade, the remains of several boaters have been hidden in the dark, cold depths of this 26-square-mile lake high in the Uinta National Forest.
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Rescuers in Southwestern Bulgaria said Tuesday they have found the dead bodies of two lumber-jacks, who were missing since a timber-laden truck plunged into a swollen river last Sunday.
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JAKARTA , Indonesia -- Strings of bright laundry hang among the gravestones and people who are brave enough sleep among the dead, taking refuge on the high ground of the Karet Cemetery from the worst flooding in the Indonesian capital in decades.
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Several of the wondrous geysers feared obliterated by a massive landslide on Russia's remote Kamchatka Peninsula reappeared Thursday after a drop in the water level in a lake formed by the flow of rock and mud, the World Wildlife Fund said.
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Divers recovered the bodies Tuesday of a 35-year-old woman and a boy believed to be her 7-year-old son from a rushing, rain-swollen creek.
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Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and livestock.
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Indonesian rescuers struggled on Thursday to pull out bodies and reach survivors following Central Java landslides, as floods blocked roads and damaged bridges in the area where over 80 people are feared dead, officials said.
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Rescuers searching for three missing climbers on Mount Hood in Oregon have located a snow cave, some equipment and what appears to be a âYâ carved into the snowy flanks of the mountain, and crews were converging on the location to see if there was any sign of the men, officials said today.
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FERNLEY, Nev. -- Hundreds of homes sat in as much as 8 feet of water Sunday following a canal rupture as freezing weather spread sheets of ice over yards and streets, hindering efforts to get the water to drain away.
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For nearly four weeks a mining community in central Utah held out hope that six men trapped in a coal mine cave-in would be found alive. That hope is gone now that federal mine officials have suspended the search for the men.
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HUNTINGTON, Utah -- Nearly five months after a thunderous cave-in at Utah's Crandall Canyon mine, the cause of the original disaster is still under investigation and the fate of the mine is officially unresolved.
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Several foreign divers have been killed after they were hit by tsunamis while about 70 were exploring the famed Emeral Cave off southern Thailand, police said.