Treasures from a Deluge
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Rains bring out biblical metaphors but drought stricken Texas may be seeing life, both vegetable and animal, renewed all over.
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Gold and other 17th century artifacts treasure salvagers say they recovered from a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off Key West were brought ashore Thursday. Some estimate the findings could be worth more than $1 million.
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By D'Alto, Nick  In the hands of climatologists and historians, centuries-old ships' logs are revealing past-and maybe future-weather. "...9 o'clock, gale still increasing...  At 11, a perfect hurricane of wind and rain...1/2 past 11, main topmast blown over side...ship labouring...
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Water supplies on some Indian Ocean islands may have been ruined for years or decades by salt water from the tsunami.
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Â· Torrential rains claim The Field's celebrated bridgeÂ· Country hit by flash floods, landslips and closed roads
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Thunderstorms, torrential downpours and floods are expected across many parts of the country today.
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Communities worldwide are finding ingenious ways of purifying water and getting the most out of their supplies.
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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Herey Warmadi survived last month's tsunami by climbing to the roof of his motor parts shop. Now tears spring to his eyes at the memory of filthy water and muck filling the place where he earned his living for 42 years.
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Yesterdayâs crash of the Genesis sample return canister forced scientists to look for slivers of hope in the busted up remains of fragile collection arrays.
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Tropical Storm Barry and its remnants gave a much-needed soaking to thousands of acres of burning swamp and timberland in northern Florida and southeastern Georgia.
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People who own something valuable, like a house, want to protect themselves against financial loss. Natural disasters like fire, storms or flooding can damage or destroy valuable possessions.
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Drought, pollution, mismanagement and politics have made water a precious commodity in much of the world.
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Breaking news in recent years has been swamped with stories of extreme weather -- flash floods in East Asia, prolonged drought in Africa, destructive hurricanes like Hurricane Katrina, heavy monsoon rainfall in South Asia, and an historic heat wave in Europe.
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n the wreckage left by the devastating one-two punch of Hurricanes Charley and Frances, engineers, researchers and others are finding some hope that this combination of disasters may do
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PENSACOLA, Fla. - A packet of U.S. savings bonds, washed out of a house destroyed during Hurricane Ivan more than two years ago, was found and returned to its owner.
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A man salvages a bucket from inside his submerged house near a riverbank in Pulilan town, Bulacan province, north of Manila on Thursday Dec. 2, 2004.