Smugglers try to use Dolly for cover, officials say

"Smugglers tried to use Hurricane Dolly as a cover in at least three attempts to move drugs or illegal aliens through Texas, border officials said Wednesday. About 9,600 pounds of marijuana was found buried under...

Bertha Wanders - Now Extratropical! Iceland on Monday!

UPDATES: Bertha has been downgraded again, still with winds of 70 mph and moving at 36 mph. Bertha is now Tropical Storm and considered 'ExtraTropical.' This is the Last Advisory to be issued by the National...

Bertha becomes first hurricane of 2008 season - UPDATES

"Tropical Storm Bertha has further strengthened and is now becomes the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic season. At 4 a.m., the center of Hurricane Bertha was about 845 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands....

Global Disruption” More Accurately Describes Climate Change, Not “Global ...

This is a great interview with John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and lawyer Stephen Susman who is representing Kivalina islanders, Native Alaskan people who have to be moved, because of global warming, to the...

Over 1,100 People Evacuated by Forest Fire in Sask.

Over 1,100 people in Saskatchewan have been or are in the process of being evacuated after a fast-moving forest fire blew towards yet another small Northern community.At least 200 residents were evacuated from their...

Wild weather batters parts of New Zealand

Snow, rain and gale force winds closed roads, halted interisland ferry travel and threw the plans of some air travelers in Wellington into disarray on Sunday "     Roads in the central North Island were closed because of snow and ice around Mount...

14 killed as typhoon strikes Philippines

Every time I visit Nowpublic there appears to be another new natural disaster.Is this the result of Global Warming or are we just in the middle of a natural cycle?"Flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Fengshen have left at least 14 people dead and forced the...

WEATHERAmerica Newsletter, Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 5:45 P.M. CT

WEATHER HAZARDS (During The Next 24 Hours)SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK(potential for tornadoes, damaging winds, and large hail within the next 24 hours)SCATTERED Severe Thunderstorms(Microbursts, Large Hail, Isolated...

Fire pushes 3,000 people out of homes near Halifax

New Update, Halifax: 3,000 Nova Scotia residents evacuated their homes as 6 major fires are currently underway in Nova Scotia. Power outage affecting another 8,100 homes where the blaze damaged a transmission line,...

Guantanamo Bay

" In a stinging rebuke to President Bush's anti-terror policies, a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their indefinite imprisonment without...

Sudan air crash death toll still unknown

The death toll is still unknown in the plane crash that happened in the Sudan yesterday. Investigators are searching passenger lists and examining the wreckage to try and determine what caused the plane to veer off...

Power Outage Continues in Montréal

Wednesday, June 11, 2008More than 200,000 Hydro Québec customers are still without power this morning after Tuesday's severe thunderstorms. Although most of the power outages are in the Montérégie region on...

Tornadoes & Baseball sized hail hit US Midwest

"From the Associated Press:Authorities in central Wisconsin say at least five people have been hurt as tornadoes and powerful storms ripped through the area today.A line of severe storms blew across central and southeastern Wisconsin with baseball-sized hail and winds howling...

Atlantic season's 1st tropical storm forms near Belize

Tropical storm Arthur, the first storm of the 2008 Atlantic season, formed earlier near the coast of Belize, but it is expected to weaken later today." But the center said the the storm could reemerge in the Gulf of...

Cyclone victims face 'long-term' food shortages

" The cyclone, which battered the country last weekend with winds of 240 km/hr(150 mph) and 3.5 meter (11.48 feet) storm water surges, killed more than 22,000. Another 41,000 people are still missing, according to state-run media outlets in Myanmar, and the U.N. estimates one...

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