A landslide on a mountainside in northern Tanzania triggered by four days of heavy rain has killed at least 20 people, a senior local official said on...

Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town Sunday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador...

Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut...

Nepalese authorities say landslides and floods triggered by days of heavy rains killed at least 34 people in the western part of the Himalayan nation Tuesday. Local...

A major breach in the embankment of a Krishna river canal has left low lying areas of a town and many villages in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district inundated even as...

AT LEAST six people, five of them children, have been confirmed dead after a landslide hit Kyokyezo village in Rubanda county, Kabale district. According to Rubanda MP...

A powerful typhoon Saturday battered extreme northern Philippines with forceful winds and heavy rains, but spared the capital and surrounding areas still recovering...

Among the key areas to be affected are roads, water supply systems and health due to a possible outbreak of water borne and related ailments. The country went through...

Victims of floods in the Philippines trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centres in search of scarce food and clean water today, as the government...

“After the Massive flooding that hit the West Africa and displaced a huge number of people, Morocco has decided to send an emergency humanitarian aid to Burkina...

The only piece of furniture that survived the most recent flood in Fatou Dione’s house is her bed. It’s propped up on cinderblocks and hovers just above the...

Guwahati city facing interplay of bomb blasts and floods Guwahati city is called as the gateway of entire North east. People from all over the region reside or come...

Everyday, people around the globe are threatened by storms, floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes and other natural hazards and suffer because of their social,...

We live in such voyeuristic times that it’s often difficult to feel anything anymore. Blasts. Floods. Torture. Terror. Every news piece is a story of victims of...

More than two weeks after floodwaters inundated the impoverished lowlands of the Indian state of Bihar, untold numbers of residents remain perched upon their rooftops,...

As Hurricane Dolly batters the coasts of Texas and Mexico, it’s not the whipping winds that residents should be most worried about. It’s the water.

The tragedies in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri have been terrible to watch on the news.  I watched in horror, as towns and homes were flooded to almost the top of the...

The Mississippi River breached more than a dozen levees in the St. Louis, Mo., area Thursday as flooding continued to spread across the Midwest.

McCain backs solid efforts and real life projects aimed at preventing such natural disasters while Obama defends pork spending and bills laden with projects for special...

The Mississippi River’s crest rolled downstream on Friday, submerging small towns and some of the U.S. Midwest’s most fertile farm fields with a relentless...