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They say dipper wells are a "common and well-accepted" technique within the industry.

Ohio insurers say losses from last month's windstorm will rival those from the state's costliest natural disaster of recent decades.

Colorado will likely heat up 2.5 to 4 degrees over the next 40 years, causing stream flows to shrink as spring and summer get hotter, according to a new study commissioned by the Colorado Water Conservation ...

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Marco is maintaining its strength off Mexico's Gulf Coast with maximum sustained winds near 65 miles per hour.

A meteorologist and a sheriff's office dispatcher said Monday that a possible tornado damaged some homes and knocked down power lines and trees in East Texas.

The search is on for a captive exotic cat gone missing in Martin County. Officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said Monday they were investigating the disappearance of a pet ...

Rain clouds stretched from North Dakota to Texas early Monday, while storms also made for a wet commute in the Northwest. The Northeast was to stay cool.

Low pressure will sweep through the central portion of the country and toward the Mississippi Valley, pulling a tremendous amount of Gulf of Mexico moisture northward into the eastern Plains and eventually into the Southeast.

This moisture could produce areas of heavy rain along with thunderstorms from the Gulf Coast through the Upper Midwest.

Reliant Energy is looking for a buyer amid turmoil in the credit markets and a violent storm season that cost the company millions.

The risk of flooding across the UK on Monday has reduced but more heavy rain is expected on Tuesday.

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Nineteen flood warnings are in place across the country after heavy rainfall overnight.

A baby was found alive by rescuers after spending four days in a pool of mud following flash floods that killed at least 41 people in central Algeria this week, a local official said Sunday.

'It's a miracle, really a miracle to find it alive after all this time,' the town governor of Ghardaia, Yahia Fahim, told national radio. The state-run APS news agency said the 4-month-old baby appeared in good health after being discovered late Saturday and had been handed to a family while authorities looked for its parents.

Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.

In the days before and after the deadly storm, companies and residents reported at least 448 releases of oil, gasoline and dozens of other substances into the air and water and onto the ground in Louisiana and Texas. The hardest hit places were industrial centers near Houston and Port Arthur, Texas, as well as oil production facilities off Louisiana's coast, according to the AP's analysis.

The price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States dropped in the last two weeks as Hurricane Ike led to lower demand for fuel, and the cost of filling the tank will likely keep falling, a prominent ...

A Pacific storm front moving into western Colorado is expected to bring heavy snow to the mountains this weekend.

A Texas sheriff's official says the national death toll from Hurricane Ike has hit 70 after two bodies were found near where the storm came ashore.

A search team made the discovery Saturday on an island off the devastated resort area of Bolivar Peninsula.

The bodies were taken to the Galveston County medical examiner's office. Sheriff's Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo (too-leh-MAHN'-doe) says he has no other information about the victims.

Ike forced more than a million people to flee the Texas coast before it hit Sept. 13. It caused flooding and deaths as far away as Pennsylvania.

Large parts of Britain are braced for possible flooding ahead of a predicted downpour.

The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long.

Oct 4 - Heavy rains have caused flooding in the Algerian oasis town of Ghardaia, killing at least 30 people.

Hundreds of troops, engineers and social workers have converged on the desert town of Ghardaia to help with relief operations after a flash flood there killed 33, Algeria's Interior Ministry said Friday.