A family outside their damaged home in Tarlay Sub-Township YANGON, 26 July 2011 (IRIN) - Heavy rains pounding earthquake-struck Southern Shan State continue to hinder efforts to rebuild the homes of quake survivors, agencies say.Of the 837 hou...

Photo: Mohamed Amin Jibril/IRIN Many of the drought-displaced lack access to shelter, food or water in Mogadishu MOGADISHU, 21 July 2011 (IRIN) - Heavy rains have fallen in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, making life harder for thousands of pe...

Three persons  were crushed to death by a   palm tree, locally known as buli,  which fell on two houses in sitio Kalubihan, barangay Labogon, Mandaue City,  shortly after midnight. The fatalities were identified as  Romeo Dimpas, 44,  and his wife Teresa, 45,  and a neighbor   Richard Herodiaz, 27. The  5-ton ...

A Catholic bishop and Maguindanao officials called on President Benigno Aquino III on Sunday to help unclog the Rio Grande de Mindanao.

What a beautiful site after months of drought! Cause for celebration!! Images: Gawie (Click on images for larger view.)

People walk on a waterlogged road as it rains in Mumbai on Saturday. People walk on a waterlogged road as it rains in Mumbai on Saturday. The first heavy rains of the season nearly paralysed all services and caused traffic snarls in the city. PHOTO: PTI

A baby girl  survived being crushed by boulders that fell on her grandfather’s home in Naga City, south Cebu. The landslide took place 11 a.m. Saturday in barangay Naalad, but it wasn’t until yesterday that the full extent of the landslide was seen by government geologists. The baby’s  father Reynante ...

BATANGAS CITY—A sudden drop in temperature that lowered oxygen level at the onset of the rainy season in Taal Lake has killed 752.6 metric tons of fish worth P57.226 million since Friday, officials said on Sunday. The fishkill was the worst climate change disaster to hit Batangas, according to Rosario ...

By ONA/Kabeer Yousuf - MUSCAT — Heavy to moderate rains fell in wilayats of Dakhiliyah, Dhahirah, Sharqiyah and Batinah regions yesterday causing wadis to flow. The rains fell in Nizwa, Samayil and Bahla in the Dakhiliyah, the wilayats of Yanqul and...

ROUNDUP, Mont. – Another Montana town Thursday was swamped with floodwaters that have washed out roads and rushed though houses across the state, and hundreds more homes downstream in the Dakotas could be hit as heavy rains and melting snow force re...

               “This is the fifth special monsoon article of 2011 and it will follow many more monsoon article” Monsoon to begin during the first week of July in Pakistan Monsoon season is the annual rainy season in Pakistan. The country depends heavily on these monsoon for its agricultural and water needs. The ...

By Gina Cherundolo, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer May 13, 2011; 12:27 AM ET The MODIS sensor aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image of Hurricane Charley on Friday, Aug. 13, 2004, at 12:35 p.m. EDT. Today's date (on this side ...

"April was a month of historic climate extremes across much of the United States, including: record breaking precipitation that resulted in historic flooding; recurrent violent weather systems that broke records for tornado and severe weather outbreaks...

The Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois continues to fall today, with a level of 59.3', 2.5' below the all-time peak of 61.8' set on Monday night. On Monday night, the Army Corps of Engineers was forced to intentionally destroy a levee at Birds Point on the ...

A stunning tornado outbreak of incredible violence has left at least 202 dead across the Eastern U.S.; injuries probably number over a thousand, with 600 injured in the town of Tuscaloosa alone. The tornadoes carved huge swaths of damage, completely fl...

The nation's unprecedented April tornado-fest continued full force last night, with NOAA's Storm Prediction Center logging 57 tornado reports, 295 cases of damaging thunderstorm winds, and 254 reports of large hail. The 2-day tornado count from this la...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States offered condolences and help Monday after flooding in Namibia caused widespread damage and claimed dozens of lives. Since January heavy rains have been pounding the northern parts of the country, resulting in hig...

SEPANG, Malaysia (AFP) – Britain's Jenson Button warned drivers to expect "absolute madness" at the Malaysian Grand Prix with heavy rains forecast and concerns over new wet-weather tyres supplied by Pirelli. The 2009 drivers' champion issued the blu...

BANGKOK – Heavy rains have eased in southern Thailand, where heavy downpours and landslides over nearly two weeks has left 45 people dead. The government disaster agency says more than 40,000 people are living in temporary shelters in three province...

Torrential rains in excess of 40 inches (1.016 meters) deluged Thailand's Malay Peninsula this week, triggering floods that have killed at least 17 people. The floods submerged 61 major highways, affected 840,000 people, and forced the helicopter rescu...

Heavy snows in excess of six inches have piled up over much of South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota today, with a storm maximum of 16 inches reported at Midland, South Dakota. This is bad news for residents in flood-prone areas of the Upp...

Photo by eutrophication&hypoxia via Flickr Creative Commons We've been hearing about the intense flooding in Australia for weeks now, but a lesser known side effect is the impact those floods are having on the Great Barrier Reef. From the cyclone its...