JOPLIN, Mo. — The death toll jumped to 116 on Monday after a massive tornado tore through this city on Sunday, leaving six miles of destruction: a forest of splintered tree trunks where neighborhoods once stood; a hospital and high school destroyed...

JOPLIN, Mo. – Rod Pace, manager of the Med Flight helicopter service at St. John's Regional Medical Center, had just finished payroll paperwork Sunday evening when he decided to stay an extra 15 to 20 minutes to let the menacing weather pass. From t...

BILLINGS, Mont. – Flooding in Montana caused the cancellation of several high school graduations and fishermen were trapped by washed out roads on Saturday, while swelling rivers led to voluntary evacuations in a community near Billings, meteorologi...

BUTTE LAROSE, La. -- The final wave of holdouts has mostly packed up and left this Louisiana town as water from the swollen Atchafalaya River...

SALT LAKE CITY – Late winter storms are packing a punch to the Rockies, piling snowpack on top of already record levels across the West where officials are concerned about historic flooding, avalanches and mudslides. "At this point, everybody is jus...

Associated PressThe W.A. Parish power plant in Thompsons, Tex., which has coal- and gas-fired units. Hoping to find a way around the current political impasse on climate change and energy policy, a former top adviser to President Obama has devised a ...

SIMMESPORT, La. — A farming community built for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina has become a haven for families driven from their homes by river flooding...

By Michael Kunzelman KROTZ SPRINGS, La. (AP) -- Deputies warned people Sunday to get out as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the...

By Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer May 14, 2011; 10:11 AM ET Workers help build a temporary levee in Krotz Springs, La., Friday, May 13, 2011, in advance of possible flooding if the Morganza Spillway north of Baton Rouge is opened. Wo...

RENA LARA, Miss. -- Officials in a small town are trying to assure its 500 residents they are doing what they can to shore up...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Thousands of Southerners who lost everything last month to a pack of killer twisters will need new homes after they move out of shelters and relatives' spare bedrooms, but the types of housing they find will vary widely depending ...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- With much of the nation focused on a spring marked by historic floods and deadly tornadoes, Texas and parts of several surrounding...

SANTIAGO, Chile -- A $7 billion project to dam two of the world's wildest rivers for electricity has won environmental approval Monday from a Chilean...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Mississippi River crested in Memphis at nearly 48 feet on Tuesday, falling inches short of its all-time record but still soaking low-lying areas with enough water to require a massive cleanup. National Weather Service meteorolog...

SALT LAKE CITY -- The winter and early spring have been extreme across the West, with record snowpacks bringing joy to skiers and urban water...

WASHINGTON -- More than 1.8 million homes along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts are at great risk of being damaged by a hurricane, three times...

A new assessment of climate change in the Arctic shows the ice in the region is melting faster than previously thought and sharply raises projections of global sea level rise this century. JOHN MCCONNICO/AP STOCKHOLM — A new assessment of climate ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Authorities in a southern Illinois city menaced by two dangerously swollen rivers said Sunday that most of the city's remaining residents have...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Weather scientists are retracing the footprints of this week's monstrous tornadoes the way detectives would investigate a crime scene: talking to witnesses, watching surveillance video and even taking the measurements of the trees...

NEW ORLEANS -- A surge of water not seen since the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 is forecast in coming days to test the enormous...

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- A levee keeping a swollen river from inundating a southeast Missouri town cracked in at least one place Tuesday, but water...

Residents of Oak Glen Residential Community are assisted by rescue personel as rising waters from a nearby creek forced them to evacuate their homes on Monday, April 25, 2011, in Johnson, Ark. Much of northwest Arkansas was hit with heavy rain and flash floods. (AP Photo/Beth Hall) VILONIA, Ark. —...

In 1999, anti-WTO protests made world news. Now, a DC march goes unnoticed. What happened to the critique of globalisation?The only clue I had to the International Monetary Fund/World Bank protests taking place in Washington, DC last weekend was the in...

-- Pennsylvania's top environmental regulator says he is confident that the natural gas industry is just weeks away from ending one of its more...

MINERAL WELLS, Texas -- Since evacuating her lakeside Texas home, Jackie Fewell has turned her hotel room into the information hub for one of the...

-- More than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico, with no cement plugging to help...

DUNN, N.C. – At least 21 people were killed when tornadoes hit North Carolina over the weekend. The state was hardest hit by a storm system that spawned dozens of tornadoes from Oklahoma to Virginia. Here are a few stories of survival. ___ Twenty-on...

Powerful storms snapped power lines, uprooted trees and smashed cars across the south this week. Seven deaths were reported in Alabama Saturday, raising the storm's total death toll to at least sixteen. Alabama Governor Robert Bentley declared a...

The wall of water raced through narrow Himalayan gorges in northeast India, gathering speed as it raked the banks of towering trees and boulders. When the torrent struck their island in the Brahmaputra river, the villagers remember, it took only mome...

Associated Press Officials including Energy Secretary Steven Chu, at front at far left, and Gov. Jerry Brown of California, second from left, dedicating a new solar panel factory in Milpitas, Calif., this week. A potentially dim week for the American...