New Zealand, Battered by a Record Storm, Faces a Painful Cleanup
Five people were dead and thousands were still unaccounted for days after Cyclone Gabrielle lashed the North Island, displacing more than 10,000 people.
How strong is a magnitude-7.8 quake?
The energy released by the Turkey earthquake was equal to about 32 petajoules, enough to power New York City for more than four days, one...
New Zealand’s largest city grapples with aftermath of devastating floods
The morning after the worst downpour since record-keeping began for Auckland, residents were grappling with the scale of the damage after flash flooding.
The bridge was out. So he made a 3,000-mile detour
Flooding had washed out a stretch of Australia's Great Northern Highway and cut off a major bridge, which would have been the most direct Broome-to-Kununurra...
New Zealand held a contest for Bird of the Year. The birds lost
A long-tailed bat flew away with the top prize, contest organizers said Monday. The competition has a long history of ballot stuffing, rigged polls and...