ENVIRONMENT-SLOVAKIA:  More Devastation Looms After the Storm
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BRATISLAVA, Dec 1 (IPS) - Environmentalists have attacked the government over  plans for redevelopment of the country's largest national  park after one of the biggest ecological catastrophes in the area  in the last hundred years.
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By The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb. 12--The damage done to trees by the October Surprise storm was heart-wrenching, and it was clear from the beginning that many resources would have to be pooled to help the urban forest recover.
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France and Italy reported new victims of a heatwave that has engulfed Europe for the last two weeks, bringing the number of deaths to more than 80 people, as storms also took their toll.
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Much of Europe was alternately baked and drenched as the heatwave, believed to have taken more than 30 lives in the past week, continued and storms, sometimes fierce, erupted.
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The scale of devastation wrought by sea surges that killed about 23,000 people on Asia&#39;s shores is starting to emerge. The death toll is still climbing, thousands are missing and millions have been made homeless
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There are warnings of further flooding after more heavy rain is forecast, particularly for the south of England.
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Relentless gale-force winds are making life miserable for Austrians, and as if two weeks of accidents, property damage and bad hair days haven't been enough, forecasters say more is on the way.
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The UN emergency relief agency is struggling to respond to a natural disaster that has brought death and destruction to at least eight countries.
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The storms are expected to bring high winds, heavy rains and snow in the higher elevations.
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ASHEVILLE, NC -- Residents of western North Carolina, still trying to recover from last weekend&#39;s flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Frances, prepared Wednesday for a second dose of heavy rains, strong winds and tornadoes if Hurricane Ivan follows
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South-Eastern Europe reels from a wave of extremely hot weather that has killed more than 30 people.
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A number of homes in the Borders are flooded after winds and rain continues to batter much of the country.
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Sunday's violent storm proved that Latvia is not properly prepared for an energy crisis, Economy Minister Krisjanis Karins (New Era) says in an interview in the newspaper "Diena". The minister stresses that the ...
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A massive clear-up is taking place after flooding damage estimated at hundreds of millions of pounds.
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Nations and businesses pledge aid to areas hit by Sunday's disaster.
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HONG KONG, Sept. 8, 2004âSouthwest China braces for more floods after deadly storms killed scores of people and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate.
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Relief workers in Haiti are warning about the growing desperation of flood victims in the aftermath of a tropical storm, Jeanne, that devastated the city of Gonaives a week ago, killing more than 1,100 people and leaving as many as 250,000 homeless.