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An avalanche smashed into a Pakistani army base on a Himalayan glacier along the Indian border on Saturday, burying around 100 soldiers, the military said....

Live video showed a huge tornado blasting through suburbs of Dallas, throwing 18-wheel trailers like toys as power lines exploded in a shower of sparks.

A Colorado family managed to escape their neighborhood as a wildfire engulfed it — and it was all caught on video. KUSA-TV's Will Ripley reports.

Global warming is leading to an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, a panel of climate scientists says.

A wildfire erupted amid dry, windy weather in Colorado on Monday, and authorities say at least some homes were destroyed in the mountains west of Denver.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit central Chile on Sunday, injuring three people and prompting emergency officials to order an evacuation along parts of the coast. There were no immediate reports of major damage.

The mystery behind four days of unexplained shaking and odd sounds rattling Clintonville, Wisconsin, has been solved. The cause? A "swarm" of minor earthquakes amplified by the unique bedrock beneath the state of Wisconsin.

Agriculture officials say losses from Texas' historic drought are more than $2 billion more than previously thought.

Drought, floods and a lack of fresh water may cause significant global instability and conflict in the coming decades, as developing countries scramble to meet demand from exploding populations while dealing with the effects of climate change, U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report released Thursday.

The state spends a fraction of what countries like Mexico and Japan spend on their systems. One reason for the lack of interest, experts say, is that California has not experienced a catastrophic quake in more than a century. Japan has one.