The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization was forced to have emergency meetings to evaluate growing food concerns. They blame extreme weather as one of the major factors for shortages.

Much of the nation's South remains paralyzed today by a major winter storm that left up to a foot of snow and dangerous ice accumulations in its wake. Six states have declared states of emergency, and travel is extremely hazardous in the affected regio...

Heavy rain will douse the Lone Star State tonight.

image: Mass Animal Deaths - Google Map You'd have to have been sequestered in a cave for the past ten days or so to not have noticed all the coverage of mass bird deaths and fish kills going on right now. And you've perhaps already come across the

As we ring in the new year, it's time to look back on 2010 and reflect upon what a remarkable weather year it was. Today, I'll focus on the U.S. While 2010 certainly had its share of violent and destructive weather events in the U.S., I am thankful for...

From The Telegraph: Residents fighting to save their homes in the flooded Queensland town of Rockhampton have been forced to stay out of the rising waters by the threat of deadly snakes and crocodiles. A brown ...

The arrival of the new year has brought continued misery to northeast Australia, where unprecedented flooding continues in the wake of weeks of torrential rains. The floods have killed at least ten people and covered an area the size of France and Ger...

Don’t get me wrong— I love mother nature and all of her green glory, but sometimes she can be a real b word. No one knows that more than Garth Brooks, who headlined nine, sold-out concerts to benefit victims of last May’s devastating floods in Tennessee. Between December 16th and 22nd ...

As we say goodbye to 2010, AccuWeather.com took a look at the unusual and extreme weather events that hit the United States over the past year.

Cathy Gulli, Macleans magazine, describes the harrowing experience of "two Canadians in Peru fac[ing] earthquakes, landslides, floods, near-death—and death". " “You’re cursed now,” ...

Fernando del Mundo, Philippine Daily Inquirer, writes: "Ernesto Castillo never had it so good until Mt. Pinatubo erupted and forced him ...

The Telegraph is reporting that Hillary Clinton said : "It is biblical, the tragedy that continues to ...

According to Scott Maniquet, National Post, "every decade has its share of natural disasters: earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, typhoons, ...

According to Live Science, "the Mediterranean Sea as we know it today formed about 5.3 million years ago when Atlantic ...

"A typical hurricane releases some 600 trillion watts of heat energy, equivalent to 200 times the world’s total electrical generating capacity." From Jocelyn Rice, Discover Magazine, 20 things ...

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From Steve Szkotak, Huffington Post:  "A drenching, wind-driven rain lashed much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, flooding streets, closing schools, roads and bridges and ...

Somaliland Press is reporting that "About 5,000 new automatic weather stations are set to be deployed across Africa, under a climate change initiative announced today by the ...

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According to CTV.ca, "as flood waters continue to rise in ...

According to Mark Lynas, the author of Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet,  and as reported in The Guardian...

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) describes itself as the "Nation’s Scorekeeper in ...

Floods are in the news right now, with the expected flloding expected in North Dakota this week. You may find interesting to learn about some of the worst fllods in U.S. history in an ...

This BlueBox video from weather.com reports on the sandbagging efforts going on in Fargo. Local officials also let students out of high school to help ...

According to South Africa's News24.com, "More than 200 000 people in Namibia have been affected by heavy flooding near the northern ...

Central Queensland News is reporting that ...

Luka Binniyat, AllAfrica.com, reports that "The Minister of Aviation, Mr. Babatunde Omotoba, yesterday made a public presentation of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) 2009 Weather Prediction for ...

This photo was taken by Pawan Kumar(Reuters) at Lucknow in 2006. It ...