Fire crews are still putting out hotspots from a wildfire that raced across more than 3,000 acres south of Reno, Nev., where over 20 homes were destroyed. CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports.

Extreme Weather 2011: Introduction from Jack Hayes From extreme drought, heat waves and floods to unprecedented tornado outbreaks, hurricanes, wildfires and winter storms, a record 12 weather and climate disasters in 2011 each caused $1 billion or m...

SANTIAGO, CHILE — The family home of one of Chile’s top Indian leaders was destroyed Sunday in a suspicious fire. Hours later, hooded gunmen attacked the home of a retired military official and set it ablaze. The apparent arsons happened in an are...

Rapid rise in wildfires in large parts of Canada? Public release date: 16-Dec-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Tilo Arnholdpresse@ufz.de49-341-235-1635Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres Ecologists show for the first time threshold va...

By Bill Deger, Meteorologist Sep 12, 2011; 3:11 AM ET Some rain could be on the way later this week to a part of the country that desperately needs it. Much of southern Kansas, Oklahoma and northern Texas, mired in one of the worst droughts in d...

Wildfires that have destroyed more than a thousand homes and threaten thousands more continue to rage in central Texas. Meteorologists point out that drought and an influx of wind from Tropical Storm Lee have fanned the flames and fueled the rash of ...

The Mississippi River continues to rise to heights never seen before along its course through the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. At Natchez, Mississippi, the river has already hit 59 feet, breaking the previous all-time record of 58 feet set in t...

The nation's unprecedented April tornado-fest continued full force last night, with NOAA's Storm Prediction Center logging 57 tornado reports, 295 cases of damaging thunderstorm winds, and 254 reports of large hail. The 2-day tornado count from this la...

A 1/2 mile-wide tornado smashed through Vilonia, Arkansas last night, killing four and destroying 50 - 80 houses. Vilonia is a small town of 3,800 north of Little Rock. The storm system responsible produced 38 suspected tornadoes yesterday, and also du...

I came across some remarkable sets of pictures that I wanted to share.  One is from more than 200 miles above the earth and the other is at ground zero in fire and drought ravaged  West Texas. NASA astronaut Ron Garan took some terr...

By Katie Storbeck, Meteorologist Apr 17, 2011; 4:50 AM ET A wildfire flared up on the west side of Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, Saturday, April 16, 2011 (AP Photo/LM Otero). Fire fighters have been scrambling this past week to keep up with wildfir...

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) describes itself as the "Nation’s Scorekeeper in ...

Six young kids have come up with some pretty good ideas to help prevent wildfires in their own community....

AP reports in Wildfire Today: "Local CFA firefighter David Tree shares his water with an injured Australian Koala at Mirboo North after wildfires swept through the ...