A Picher, Oklahoma, man describes waiting an "eternity" as a tornado lifted his house with his family inside. They survived, but the twister killed seven.
As plants bloom earlier due to rising temperatures, caribou are arriving at their calving grounds when the bounty is past its peak, leading to fewer births and a lower survival rate, researchers say.
Tens of thousands of pets and farm animals were trapped as their owners evacuated. Cattle are dying, and pets have no food, but a limited animal evacuation is in the works.
Troops forced out the last holdouts after glowing rocks spewed from Chaitén. An expert warns that a catastrophic flow of toxic gas and ash could follow.
The world's largest group of orangutans in Indonesia may face extinction by 2011 because of palm oil plantation expansion, which is destroying habitat, experts say.
The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned to desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again.
Thousands of horses, cows, and other livestock face a possibly toxic brew of deep ash and gases. And the region's all-important farms may be devastated for decades.
Bodies floated in floodwaters, and survivors tried to reach dry ground using blankets as sails, while a U.S. diplomat said up to a hundred thousand may have died.
A new "Greendex" survey tracking consumer spending habits also found that the residents of the U.S. and other industrialized nations are the most wasteful.
