KOHIMA: Thunderstorm coupled with heavy rain has damaged over 1000 houses, injured two persons and snapped electricity supply in five districts in Nagaland, the State Disaster Management Authority

New Yorkers who weathered the monster blizzard that clobbered the U.S.

A powerful spring storm brought strong winds and baseball-sized hail to several central states on Tuesday, with tornadoes spotted in Kansas and Oklahoma as the severe weather marched east, forecast

Europe faces multiple climate hazards in the coming decades.

At least eight people have been killed and thousands of houses damaged in gales and hailstones that have lashed Myanmar, according to media reports.

Over 2,000 houses and other facilities with roofs of tin and corrugated sheets were damaged in the thunderstorms and torrential rains that hit many parts of Manipur on Tuesday, residents said.

VIENNA – Natural disasters have caused more than $7 trillion in economic damage worldwide since 1900, with floods and storms accounting for nearly 60 percent of the total, researchers said Monday.

Disastrous floods in the Balkans two years ago are likely linked to the temporary slowdown of giant airstreams, scientists found.

Heavy rains battered central Chile over the weekend, leaving one person dead, seven missing and millions without drinking water as landslides caused havoc and rivers breached their banks.