JOPLIN, Mo. -- The numbers look increasingly bleak for families hoping for the best after a monster tornado that devastated the town of Joplin, as...

If the weather does return to normal by the summer, I forecast more margaritas during the week, with a 90 percent chance of lemon, salt and tequila shots on the weekends.

MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Schools and roads were closed across central Vermont Friday after heavy overnight rains caused rivers to overflow their banks, and violent storms...

OROUMIEH LAKE, Iran -- From a hillside, Kamal Saadat looked forlornly at hundreds of potential customers, knowing he could not take them for trips in...

It is unclear whether President Obama will be successful in using compromise to get a significant portion of his agenda -- environmental or otherwise -- past highly partisan Republican foes.

The damage resulting from the Joplin, Missouri tornado is still being assessed, but so far it is said to have been the deadliest tornado in...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Flooding that besieged rural Montana communities claimed at least one life and left another person missing as authorities in at least two...

Not many can say they've lived through a deadly tornado like the one that struck Joplin, Missouri on Sunday. Even fewer can come back from...

Those of us fortunate enough not to be in the direct path of the storm waited in the center of our darkened city, praying that loved ones somehow managed to remain safe in what reporters were describing as a scene from a war zone.

Judy Pugh was in her Tuscaloosa, Alabama home when a massive tornado -- one of many to devastate the region -- ripped through her neighborhood...

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

BUTTE LA ROSE, LA. –- The evening chorus of bullfrogs, crickets and screech owls along the waterfront has seemed louder these last few nights. The...

This year’s record-breaking tornadoes, floods, droughts and wildfires will cost the country tens of billions of dollars in economic losses -- and these estimates are...

VIDALIA, LA. –- Traffic has been swift for weeks along the majestic steel bridge that connects this low-lying river town to its sister city across...

Scientists may be just steps from discovering the first habitable planet beyond our own. Gliese 581d, a planet orbiting the red-dwarf star Gliese, may be...

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

Debating the Cause of the Mississippi's Historic Floods...

With gasoline prices now north of $4 a gallon, and the summer driving season upon us, politicians have predictably resumed pandering to the oil industry...

YAZOO CITY, Miss. - At the far end of this sleepy town with Magnolia-lined streets, Hines Grocery has served up heaping plates of smoked pork...

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

GREENVILLE, Miss. -- There’s an old saying in this stretch of the South: "The people of the Delta fear God and the Mississippi River." That...

You certainly wouldn't have expected Cameron's latest plan. He has decided to convert us to a new energy source that seems, in the U.S., to have released cancer-causing chemicals and radiation into the water supply.

LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (AP) -- In an agonizing trade-off, Army engineers said they will open a key spillway along the bulging Mississippi River as early...

When you can't have your own private island, you can always create your own. Russell, as the video identifies him, has put more than a...

Critics of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission received fresh ammunition on Thursday when the agency revealed that many of the nation's aging nuclear power plants would...

If you've ever wondered what happens when a comet hits the Sun, this might be your answer. This stunning video shows the Sun's "reaction" as...

WASHINGTON — The hearing was for verbally flogging oil company CEOs, and no senator bothered to pretend it was about making gasoline prices more affordable...

Brian Luenser witnessed something Tuesday night he had never seen before: blue, purple, orange and red fireballs lighting up the Fort Worth, Texas sky. “I...

Today humanity is a vast system of seven billion, with enormous technological powers and unprecedented demands. Its divorce from nature is approaching a tipping point: in its present form the human system is critically unsustainable.

India continues to mystify scholars. While most Americans are familiar with the terms such as "yoga" and "Bollywood," Indian perspectives toward the ecology seem to be largely unknown.