Tubbataha Reef in the Philippines is UNESCO's only Marine World Heritage Site in Southeast Asia. That's why the outcry was so severe when an American minesweeper ship, the USS Guardian, ran aground on the reef and became completely stuck. Contribu...

As rescuers in the Philippines continue to find bodies in the devastation brought by Typhoon Bopha a little over a week ago, forecasters say the storm is heading back, this time to the north. Officials list 540 dead, over 850 still missing, and sa...

Typhoon Bopha is now the deadliest storm to have hit the Philippines this year, with at least 500 people dead and hundreds more missing in remote areas of Mindanao island hit by mudslides. The disaster has left hundreds of thousands homeless and t...

Dozens have been killed and villages and homes destroyed in deadly flooding in the Philippines from typhoon Bopha, the most powerful storm to hit Mindanao in decades. It was clocking top winds of 110 mph as it hit the city of Baganga.

A state of national disaster has been declared in the Philippines. Flash floods triggered by Tropical Storm Washi have killed almost one thousand people, and the local government is preparing temporary communal tombs to house many of the bodies. ...

At least 436 people have been killed in widespread flooding in the southern Philippines, as tropical storm Washi raked across the region, the Philippine Red Cross said. The Red Cross, told the Associated Press on Saturday that the death toll had ...