Despite weakening to a category three cyclone, warnings remain in place for parts of the Pilbara and Gascoyne regions as a ...

For national parks, especially those in the Southeast, this could mean that their ability to withstand the impacts of extreme ...

Swiss Re said the high losses were the result of disasters striking areas of large exposure and asset concentration.

The French territory of Mayotte was battered by a new tropical storm Sunday, just weeks after the worst cyclone to hit the islands in nearly a century laid waste to entire neighborhoods and villages ...

Cyclone Dikeledi was moving away from the French territory of Mayotte on Sunday but the archipelago will remain under red ...

Over the past two decades, extreme weather events and record-breaking temperatures fueled by climate change have put more lives at risk. In the United States and around the world, hurricanes, ...

Residents still coping without power and heat were preparing Friday for a new winter storm as power line crews worked to get ...

The storm that battered Newfoundland over the weekend has left scars on parts of rural Newfoundland, including a northwest Trinity Bay community where one resident is worried it might never go back to ...

A powerful storm surge can cause long-term damage by sweeping away roads, eroding beaches and contaminating land with salt water, harming wildlife and agriculture. In 1970, a tropical cyclone formed ...

WHAT WAS THE DEADLIEST STORM SURGE ON RECORD? In 1970, a tropical cyclone formed in the Bay of Bengal and hit northeastern India and what was then East Pakistan. Storm surge of up to 35 feet (10.7 ...

A fishing stage is the heart of any outport community, explained Pound Cove resident Dana Blackmore. It holds so many memories of lessons passed down from generation to generation. "The grandparents ...

WHAT IS A STORM SURGE? As a hurricane approaches a coast, the churning winds force ocean water up onto land. Atmospheric pressure from the storm also helps squeeze the water ashore.