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A chilly, blustery storm swept through the drought- parched region Friday morning, bringing drenching rain to low-lying areas and snow to the mountains.

Global warming looms large in the Southwest as rising temperatures threaten to diminish already scarce water supplies.

California officials have proposed spending nearly $400 million over 10 years to slow the shrinkage of the state's largest lake.

Last year sometimes felt like one natural catastrophe after another. Now, reinsurer Munich Re says there were some 750 natural disasters, suggesting it was a particularly bad year.

Hundreds of years after George Washington first began draining the now-112,000-acre Great Dismal Swamp in southeastern Virginia, biologists are working to restore it to a more natural environment.

Public rinse stations in all state-run beaches and parks will be off limits effective July 15.

Cleveland Indians move one win closer to reprising their Series title, the first time since 1948.

A preliminary assessment found 96 single-family homes have been destroyed in Southern California's huge wildfire, a spokesman said Friday.

The onset of much-needed precipitation in the drought-parched county — the second wet spell to arrive in a week — began in the early afternoon Thursday. The rain is expected to continue Friday.

Climate change is complicating the lives of subsistence rice farmers in Madagascar. For years, the wet and dry seasons arrived predictably. No more. To survive, farmers are looking to diversify.