6th October - Todays News: South Carolina's 1,000 Year Flood

Shocking aerial photos show Hurricane Joaquin's devastating path   However, despite the rains in South Carolina - S.C. flood is 6th 1,000-year rain since 2010 - Hurricane Joaquin misses the US, thus the 10-year hurricane drought continues.   And its remnants are still not heading towards Britain, despite more misleading stories in local media today.

And the meteorology behind South Carolina's catastrophic 1,000-year event

There are still two missing as Riviera flood death toll rises to 20

Typhoon Mujigae leaves 15 dead or missing in South China

There have been five days of record-breaking temperatures in Australia but now one home destroyed, properties under threat as bushfire burns in central Victoria as the Australian bushfire season off to an early start.

Climate change, drought cause over 11,000 fires in Brazilian Amazon in 2015

Is climate change behind new threat by brown and black bears on people?

A study shows how volcanic eruptions can reduce river flow; scientists caution against geo-engineering

And beavers 'not to blame' for major flash flood that submerged village in Perthshire last year