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Hurricane Igor raced northeastward on Tuesday on a track that will pass energy operations in eastern Canada, while Tropical Storm Lisa formed in the far eastern Atlantic as the 12th named storm of the busy 2010 Atlantic season.

A powerful typhoon made a direct hit on Taiwan on Sunday, sending residents scurrying for cover and rescue crews rushing to evacuate people in mountainous regions vulnerable to landslides.

Tourists lined up at Bermuda's airport hoping to board one of the last flights off the island and locals stocked up on emergency supplies Saturday ...

Powerful Hurricane Karl is bringing torrents of rain and fierce winds to the Mexico coast as the eye of the storm makes landfall.

Tropical Storm Karl has formed formed in the Caribbean, heading on a path that's expected to take it over the Yucatan Peninsula, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday afternoon.

A quickly intensifying Hurricane Igor is poised on Monday to become a Category 5 storm -- the most-powerful on the Saffir-Simpson scale that measures tropical weather.

As Tropical Storm Igor spins across the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters say the the storm will probably strengthen and become a hurricane later Saturday.

The intense heat this summer wasn't a mirage for the tens of millions of people in the eastern and southern USA.

As communities in south and central Texas kept an eye on rivers rising due to torrential rain from Hermine, a new tropical storm formed on Wednesday in the deep Atlantic.

An Indonesian volcano shot a towering cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles away in its most powerful eruption ...