USA Today, by Doyle Rice: The hurricane map in the Atlantic Ocean may be nearly blank now, but forecasters say that may not last much longer, as several signs point to an uptick in activity across the basin. “The tropical…

FOX News, by Andrew Wulfeck: A clash of air masses on Wednesday will result in the threat of severe storms from Milwaukee and Chicago westward to Denver and the eastern Rockies. The Storm Prediction Center has placed large parts of…

World Net Daily, by WND staff: Tourists seen running for their lives as Italy’s Mount Etna erupts, sending ash “several kilometers” into the sky. A tour company said they had about 40 people on the volcano when it erupted, as…

NBC News, by Dennis Romero: A magnitude-4.2 earthquake rumbled just offshore of the Big Island of Hawaii on Tuesday morning, but officials said no tsunamis were expected. The earthquake was about 5 miles southeast of the community of Pāhala, just…

USA Today, by Jeanine Santucci and Zac Anderson: At least 32 people were killed in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia after storms and tornadoes tore through the region as part of an extreme weather outbreak on May 16, “leaving behind a…

KTLA 5, by Tony Kurzweil and Marc Sternfield: The worst-case scenario has been realized in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, where an estimated 1,000 structures, many of them homes, have been destroyed by a Santa Ana-wind-fueled wildfire, authorities…

Common Dreams, by Julia Conley: Undocumented migrants living in informal settlements in the French territory of Mayotte were among those whose lives and livelihoods were most devastated by Cyclone Chido, a tropical cyclone that slammed into the impoverished group of…

USA Today, by Mike Snider, Elizabeth Weise, Dinah Voyles Pulver, Terry Collins, and Jeanine Santucci: A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the town of Petrolia on Thursday at 10:44 a.m. local time, generating a now discontinued tsunami warning that stretched…

USA Today, by N’dea Yancey-Bragg, Doyle Rice, and Jorge L. Ortiz: Two people are dead and others injured as a “bomb cyclone” battered the Pacific Northwest with high winds and rain Wednesday, cutting power to hundreds of thousands in Washington…

AP News: New storms in Spain caused school closures and train cancellations on Wednesday, two weeks after flash floods in Valencia and other parts of the country killed more than 220 people and destroyed thousands of homes. Coastal areas of…

BBC, by Nadine Yousif: An 18-year-old park ranger has died in the US state of New York while battling a wildfire in Sterling Forest – one of several blazes that erupted in the region this week. The teenager was identified…

Reuters, by Karen Lema: Philippine search and rescue teams pulled bodies from water and thick mud on Friday, bringing to 42 the death toll from flooding and landslides triggered by a storm, with dozens more feared buried. Eleven bodies were…