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Three days after Hurricane Gustav came ashore on the Gulf Coast, nearly 829,000 households were still without electricity, power company officials said Thursday, warning that power may be restored slowly in the hardest-hit areas.

Half the residents of New Orleans were suffering from poor mental and physical health more than a year after their homes and community were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, according to new research.

The physics behind leaves on the line, the misty reason trains are delayed in the autumn

Global warming is already affecting our planet at a rapid pace, and signs are appearing all over the world. Here are 7 such places, from India to Alaska.

If the team's findings are right, some 145 million people living within 1 meter (3.3 feet) of sea level would be in danger. By one United Nations calculation, a meter rise in the oceans would cost the world $944 billion in damages and lost productivity.

Hurricane Ike Model Forecast - TwisterVideos.com. New hurricane model forecast have put potential U.S. landfall of Hurricane Ike further west. This puts the region from Houston to New Orleans at risk.

A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier.

Tropical Storm Hanna churned across the Bahamas and toward the U.S. coast on Thursday, while Hurricane Ike, an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane, roared farther out in the Atlantic, its destination a mystery.

If it seems like disasters are getting more common, it's because they are. But some disasters do seem to be affecting us worse - and not for the reasons you may think.

The projected path of Hurricane Ike is toward the west over the next several days. By the weekend Hurricane Ike will be off the east coast of Florida as a potentially category 5 hurricane.