Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to spare. Across large parts of the Southwest, that is.  All along the Mississippi River, from Illinois to Louisiana, record floods continue to drown towns and farmland following the wettest April on re...

EDMONTON — One-third of Slave Lake, Alta. has been lost to fire, the town's mayor Karina Pillay-Kinnee said Monday morning. Speaking at a technical briefing via phone from the razed community, Pillay-Kinnee said the town's southeast is most affected...

Northern Alberta residents fled their homes Sunday and gathered on beaches and parking lots as a pair of wildfires beared down on the town of Slave Lake. Community officials issued an evacuation order Sunday evening, but with fires threatening the hig...

EDMONTON -- Low humidity, warm temperatures and dry ground have created perfect conditions for fast-moving wildfires, says the province. As of Saturday evening, 73 wildfires were burning across Alberta, said Rob Harris, a fire information officer with...

The Mississippi River continues to rise to heights never seen before along its course through the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. At Natchez, Mississippi, the river has already hit 59 feet, breaking the previous all-time record of 58 feet set in t...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Authorities have asked residents in three separate areas of New Mexico to leave their homes that are threatened by a series of...

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

As warm May weather revives memories of the smog that caused the capital to choke for weeks last summer, the Emergency Situations Ministry has offered assurances that it has control over the source of the air pollution — burning peat bogs and...

7 May 2011 Last updated at 21:13 ET Firefighters have been trying to control blazes across the UK all week It is hoped overnight thunderstorms will aid firefighters to control fires still raging in parts of the UK. Blazes continue to burn in Berkshi...

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...

April in London ... the Easter week heatwave warms St James Park in London. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA The heatwave across north-west Europe intensified last week, with temperatures in France, the Low Countries and Germany often above 20C. On Good Friday,...

A 1/2 mile-wide tornado smashed through Vilonia, Arkansas last night, killing four and destroying 50 - 80 houses. Vilonia is a small town of 3,800 north of Little Rock. The storm system responsible produced 38 suspected tornadoes yesterday, and also du...

Tried by fire, ranchers fight on STORY HIGHLIGHTS Firefighters are still working to contain the largest fires in the state Critical fire weather is forecast for Texas during the first part of the week The Texas Forest Service responded to 1...

I came across some remarkable sets of pictures that I wanted to share.  One is from more than 200 miles above the earth and the other is at ground zero in fire and drought ravaged  West Texas. NASA astronaut Ron Garan took some terr...

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

A train passenger quenches his thirst in Allahabad as heatwave temperatures in northern India reached 45C. Photograph: Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images The US tornado season was very active last week, with further spring storms causing havoc across the...

By Katie Storbeck, Meteorologist Apr 17, 2011; 4:50 AM ET A wildfire flared up on the west side of Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, Saturday, April 16, 2011 (AP Photo/LM Otero). Fire fighters have been scrambling this past week to keep up with wildfir...

Share this By Elliott Blackburn LUBBOCK, Tex (Reuters) - Wildfires scorched more than 230,000 acres in Texas on Sunday, roaring through a West Texas town, destroying an estimated 80 homes and buildings and critically injuring a firefighter. The...

Share this By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Four wind-driven wildfires forced the evacuations of 271 homes in the foothills west of Denver on Friday, in what has been an active early start to the wildfire season in Colorado. The largest blaz...

COYLE, Okla. -- In most years, the dark clouds over western Oklahoma in the spring would be bringing rain. This year, they're more likely to...

Share this By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Gale force winds and drought spawned raging wildfires across five states of the parched Southwest on Sunday, damaging dozens of homes and businesses and forcing a Kansas town to evacuate, authoriti...

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

Six young kids have come up with some pretty good ideas to help prevent wildfires in their own community....

AP reports in Wildfire Today: "Local CFA firefighter David Tree shares his water with an injured Australian Koala at Mirboo North after wildfires swept through the ...