They’re known as “frog men,” inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to overflowing toilets or holes in the ground that serve as one. Thousands of ...

Prisons have become no man’s land,” said Rodolfo Valentín Santos, director of the Dominican Republic’s National Public ...

They’re known as “frog men,” inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to ...

Yes, the L.A. blazes were worsened by climate change, say Australian bushfire experts. But that doesn’t mean people are powerless.

Houses and fire do not mix. The firestorm which hit Los Angeles in January destroyed nearly 2,000 buildings and forced ...

More fuel reduction burns are needed across regional Victoria to ease the burden on rural firefighters, a former CSIRO ...

The Australian town of Marysville once faced the same questions being asked in the Los Angeles neighborhoods that burned.

(Robert Letts/Emma Kealy) Fire crews battle a blaze in the Little Desert National Park. (Forest Fire Management Victoria) Auto news: What changes to child seat safety rules mean for you.

Northeastern Australia, particularly the state of Queensland, has faced record-breaking rainfall of up to 2 meters, or 6.5 ...

Lightning and thunder are forecast across Melbourne and regional Victoria until midday Wednesday, posing fire risks for authorities ... two-thirds of which occurred in Australia during the Black ...

and the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires that swept through South Australia and Victoria. “Typically, any time we have extreme or catastrophic fire danger ratings, we consider what we call short-fuse ...