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Storm off Mozambique kills 15 fishermen

September 7, 2010

Mozambican authorities say five fishing boats have capsized in a storm off the country's central coast, killing at least 15 fishermen.

Dozens killed, missing in Guatemala landslides

September 7, 2010

Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers who had come to save people already trapped by a wall of mud.

In wake of Earl, U.S. eyes other potential storms

September 7, 2010

The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston look very likely to strengthen again as a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic and could threaten the Caribbean's Leeward Islands in coming days.

Amazon may be headed for another bad drought

September 5, 2010

Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American rainforest in the worst drought in decades.

Many desperate Pakistanis still wait for flood aid

September 5, 2010

Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be.

Tropical Storm Gaston may reform over Atlantic

September 5, 2010

Tropical Storm Gaston could soon come swirling back to life over the central Atlantic Ocean, U.S. forecasters said on Saturday.

Devastating Pakistan floods finally heading to sea

September 3, 2010

Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained.

Rough waters for shore resorts between storms

September 3, 2010

So much for a perfect finale to the summer vacation season.

Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict

September 3, 2010

Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.

Typhoon kills 5 South Koreans

September 3, 2010

The death toll from Typhoon Kompasu, which battered the Korean peninsula with strong winds and heavy rains, rose to five in South Korea, an official said Friday.