Consumers in the developed world are becoming increasingly apathetic about global warming, while Latin Americans – who have suffered much from unusual weather patterns – are becoming more concerned
The scale of Hurricane Irene, which could cause more extensive damage along the US’s Eastern Seaboard than any storm in decades, is reviving an old question: are hurricanes getting worse because of
Having cut a path of destruction that stretched from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island in a 24-hour period that killed at least nine people in five states and caused an unprecedented shutdown of the transit systems in Washington, Philadelphia and New York, a weakened but still ferocious Hurricane Irene, now downgraded to a tropical storm, set its sights on a battened-down New England late Sunday morning.
With Hurricane Irene threatening a full-force hit, New York City on Thursday ordered the evacuation of nursing homes and senior centers in low-lying areas and made plans for the possible shutdown o
Tropical Storm Emily took aim at Haiti on Wednesday, threatening to add to the misery of a chronically poor nation struggling to recover from last year's devastating earthquake.
Tropical Storm Emily formed near the Caribbean's Lesser Antilles islands on Monday, far from oil and gas-production facilities in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
Tropical storm Dora, the fourth named storm of the Pacific hurricane season, formed off the coast of Central America Monday threatening to dump heavy rains on the coffee and sugar growing region.
The storm, with winds of about 40 mph, could reach hurricane strength by Wednesday but is not forecast to make a direct hit on land, the U.S.
