Mangrove forests protect land against erosion from wind, water and storms.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Some climate scientists think the Australian continent is particularly susceptible to a shifting climate and predict a greater incidence of droughts, floods and storms as the Earth warms.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

On the the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, this warming planet we live on is posing serious new challenges to human civilization: increasingly severe droughts, floods,and storms across the globe, and slowly rising ocean levels.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

And in the Philippines, more than two hundred thousand people are still living in shelters after severe storms last year.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

The storms have been known to carry homes, cars and trees from one plane to another.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

In recent years,coral diseases, storms and other activity in the environment have reduced staghorn coral populations.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

The storms were blamed for ten deaths in Mississippi, and two others in nearby Alabama.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

The high winds and angry seas in this area of the world created deadly storms.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Floods,storms and other natural events kill thousands of people every year.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Others do it to help document storms and warn the public.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

They are also known for fierce and deadly storms.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Coral reefs also protect coastlines from storms and flooding.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

The image of a man on a boat, white mane tousled, smiling broadly as he sails into the wind, ready for what storms may come, carrying on toward some new and wondrous place just beyond the horizon."

VOA: special.2009.09.13

For example,it says climate change and land use are expected to increase desertification worldwide, increasing the risk of sand and dust storms.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

This means,he says,that the Philippines, the southern part of Vietnam and Cambodia will be hit with more storms than experienced in recent decades.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

And with higher sea levels, heavy rains and massive tides known as storm surges, which often accompany tropical storms, can do unexpected damage.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

They say the effects of more storms, floods,droughts and heat waves will be abrupt and profound.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

"I have been in Washington for maybe 30 years, and I think this is probably one of the biggest storms, maybe the biggest we have ever had."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

But heavy rains are complicating further efforts to reach these areas by land and the weather forecast for the region calls for more storms in the coming days.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

It was the first of a series of three massive storms that devastated wide areas of the island of Luzon, where Manila is located, and claimed almost a thousand lives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

But,he warns, warmer global temperatures could bring more,and bigger,storms.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

"With all my heart, I urge you to pull up an anchor and make full sail before we lose the tide and are left stranded on the beach, exposed to the coming storms."

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

Clinton announced $5 million in new U.S.relief aid on top more than $14 million in rescue and relief aid in the immediate aftermath of the storms, much of it delivered by U.S.military forces based in the Philippines and elsewhere in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12