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3rd July - Today's News: Canada Heatwave

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July 03, 2013

Hot in Canada as heat wave shatters temperature records across B.C. whilst in Alberta, blackouts hit province during heat wave but flood areas spared

And in the US, heat wave persists in West as flooding threatens East while Los Angeles temperatures reach all-time high as parts of California and Nevada come out of their hottest June ever

Here in Britain, our long awaited heat wave looks like arriving on Friday and setting in for much of the month. Stark contrast to recent summers. But does sun + people = happiness?

In NZ, June was a month of rain, wind and more rain

Rescue after deadly earthquake in Indonesia's Aceh

Antarctic flood produces 'ice crater'

Greenhouse gas likely altering ocean foodchain: atmospheric CO₂ has big consequences for tiny bacteria

And is 2,000,002,013AD - the year the world will end?

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23rd September - Today's News: Climate Change Impacts "Accelerating"

September 23, 2019

Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks with the five warmest years on record occurring in the past 5 years. Meanwhile on the Pizol glacier: Swiss hold funeral for ice lost to global warming After heavy rain in Northern Ireland, Sion Mills residents return home following 'worst flooding' in years Last week saw the first snow falls as winter arrives in northern Sweden Japan's latest typhoon leaves 30 injured; downgraded to extratropical cyclone 5 deaths now linked to flooding in Texas after Tropical Storm Imelda Magnitude 5.6 earthquake rocks buildings in Albania The UK's climate change: 800 years tracked using oak tree rings And how Enceladus causes snowfall on other moons of Saturn

11th October - Today's News: Race on to Protect Bangkok from Floods

October 11, 2011

Thailand races to defend Bangkok from floods How our Indian summer is set to make pumpkins a little less pumped for Halloween San Antonio keeps water flowing amid a deep drought whilst Colorada empties popular lake to pay its water bill . Hurricane Jova closes in on western Mexico Antarctic lake mission targets life and climate signs Glacier lakes: growing danger zones in the Himalaya It looks like there has been an underwater volcanic eruption near Spanish Canary island Michael Hanlon makes a fool of himself by building a great big man of straw and asking Mini Ice-Age or global warming: Why can't they make their minds up? Does he really not realise that it's the media he works for that keep coming up with these daft predictions, not the scientists who invariably are saying something very, very different (the recent 'ice age' claims being a case in point). Shame on you Michael. Or maybe that was the point? To further mislead the public and champion the cause of...

25th July - Today's News: Fatal Chinese Bullet Train Crash Caused by Lightning

July 25, 2011

A weekend of extremes: Lightning sparks Chinese train crash, 33 killed whilst the heaviest rainstorm in 13 years hits Beijing, two suspected killed by lightning. In NZ, wintry blast brings worst snow in over a decade And in the US, East coast cools but millions of Americans still suffering under stifling heatwave whilst for Chicago the rainiest day since 1871 causes power outages and mayhem on roads Floods displace 3,000 in eastern region of Ghana

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