As the DC area is hit with a major snowstorm, 10,000 people are descending on Congress to lobby on climate change as part of Powershift 09.
Richard Stuebi | Posted 03.19.2009 | Green
Weather is to climate what one pitch is to an entire baseball season -- an instantaneous reading of conditions, an infinitesimal snapshot, in the midst of something incredibly larger and broader.
AP | TIM TALLEY | Posted 03.14.2009 | Home
LONE GROVE, Okla. — Rescuers sorted through bricks and shattered plywood Wednesday in search of more victims of a deadly tornado that blasted th...
AP | JEFF LATZKE | Posted 03.13.2009 | Home
OKLAHOMA CITY — A large, violent tornado ripped through a southern Oklahoma town late Tuesday evening, killing three people and injuring up to 5...
Ben Carmichael | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green
Today was much the same; to me, it was simply the weather, and beautiful weather at that. But to England, it was enormously disruptive.
Lea Lane | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green
You who live in Punxatawny/With toothy grin and color tawny,/Out you came to prognosticate/If winter will remain till late.
AP | JOE BIESK | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Steve Beshear (beh-SHEER) is raising his state's death toll to 24 in a storm that caked several states in ice last week. ...
AP | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green
***UPDATE: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was bitten by a groundhog on Groundhog Day. Watch the video here! *** PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. -- The world...
Jon Chattman | Posted 03.04.2009 | Entertainment
(As told to me by Punxsutawney Phil) It's been happening for over a century, and to be quite honest, it needs to stop right now. It needed to stop l...
AP | ROGER ALFORD | Posted 03.04.2009 | Home
CANEYVILLE, Ky. — Thousands of National Guard troops swinging chainsaws cut their way into remote communities Sunday to reach residents stranded...
AP | BRUCE SCHREINER and BETSY TAYLOR | Posted 03.03.2009 | Home
MAYFIELD, Ky. — Gov. Steve Beshear deployed every last one of his Army National Guardsmen on Saturday, with his state still reeling after a dead...
Mary Lou Song | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living
Arkansas and Kentucky were hit the hardest in a recent ice storm, and AnneB, a Kentucky resident, described how people were surviving in an icy Bluegrass State.
usatoday.com | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green
Emergency officials braced for a winter storm that pushed into the state early Monday and dumped a wintry mix of precipitation across Oklahoma. There...
Roderick Spencer | Posted 02.24.2009 | Living
On Tuesday, a lot of people in Washington, and I suspect everywhere else in the world, drank way too much. But for once our drunkenness wasn't to blot out reality, but to revel in it.
Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks | Posted 02.22.2009 | Living
January 20, 2009 is a day most of us will remember all our lives, thanks to Barack Obama's inauguration. We will certainly treasure that memory, but w...
mlive.com | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green
The last time you walked down your driveway to get the mail or take out the trash, you almost slipped. Or maybe you fell. It's time to de-ice. But wh...
Denis Campbell | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
While this is a country where one can hardly ignore the many beautiful landscape paintings of skaters on canals, due to global warming, the race has not been possible since 1997.
AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — More than 30,000 people were urged to leave their flood-endangered western Washington homes as snowmelt and rain swelled riv...
AP | GENE JOHNSON | Posted 02.07.2009 | Home
SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — Rain and high winds lashed Washington state Wednesday, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides, flooding and road closures ...
AP | ROGER PETTERSON | Posted 01.31.2009 | Home
NEW YORK — Winter storm warnings and plummeting temperatures put a chill on New Year's Eve plans for hundreds of thousands of revelers. Thousan...
AP | GEIR MOULSON | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green
BERLIN — Insurers' losses from natural disasters rose by about 50 percent in 2008, with Caribbean hurricanes Ike and Gustav powering the increas...
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 01.27.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Summerlike storms pounded the Midwest on Saturday with hail, high winds and even funnel clouds, helping to thaw the ice after days of ...
AP | SANDRA CHEREB | Posted 01.26.2009 | Chicago
RENO, Nev. — Yet another snowstorm closed highways in parts of the West on Friday, the latest in a tiring week of bad weather, and a dangerous s...
AP | AMY LORENTZEN | Posted 01.21.2009 | Home
DES MOINES, Iowa — Weekend storms in the nation's northern half knocked out power to thousands of customers Sunday and created nightmarish condi...
AP | BETH LaMONTAGNE HALL | Posted 01.14.2009 | Home
JAFFREY, N.H. — Joined by people seeking shelter from the bitter cold, parishioners at the Jaffrey Bible Church on Sunday thanked God for a warm...
A. Siegel | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green