Kumquat trees, as explained by the South China Morning Post, are traditionally a popular part of celebrating the Lunar New Year in Vietnam and China. They are a symbol of luck and good fortune and are ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon approached Japan on Friday, threatening to batter its capital with the heaviest rain and winds in 60 years, shutting down stores, factories and subway systems and ...

Six days after being hit by one of the worst typhoons on record, the desperation of hundreds of thousands left without housing, food and water in the Philippines grows worse. And it's starting to ...

Less than a week after being hit by the worst typhoon in decades, Japan was bracing on Thursday for a secondary disaster. Heavy rain was forecast to hit already-inundated areas in the coming days.

Today, satellites and computer models are among the tools forecasters use to warn us of hurricanes well ahead of time. But near the end of World War II, those meteorological linchpins weren't ...

The death toll from Typhoon Kalmaegi climbed to at least 85 people early Wednesday. The powerful storm continued to whip up winds of over 80 mph even after making landfall early Tuesday in the ...

PARKERSBURG – A Vienna man’s parents are safe in the Philippines where the worst typhoon in recorded history may have killed thousands of people. Several news organizations estimated about 10,000 were ...

Japan braced for more heavy rain and floods Monday as the death toll from the worst typhoon to hit the country in seven years climbed to 34. Rescuers searched for 55 others who remained missing, and ...

While the Philippines are dealing with one of their worst typhoon seasons everas far as damage and loss of life, deaths and damages are dwarfed by the 2006Tropical Cyclone Season in the West Pacific ...

Global insurer American International Group swung to a profit in third-quarter net income, as catastrophes took significantly less of a bite out of earnings than the year before. Tropical storm Nestor ...