1st September - Today's News: Typhoon Lionrock Brings Deadly Floods to Japan

Typhoon Lionrock leaves 11 dead, three missing in flooded North Japan with 1,600 stranded, 17 missing in Iwate after typhoon and more pictures from the Mail as floods from 100mph typhoon sweep through Japan

Madeline weakens to tropical storm as nears Hawaii; Hermine approaches Florida

In British Colombia, people enhanced the environment, not degraded it, over past 13,000 years

In Siberia, spooky mushroom cloud has locals fearing a nuclear bomb - but it was just a thunderstorm.  And roads washed away as Russian Far East hit by torrential rain 

Record-low Arctic sea ice is the 'new normal,' NASA says

Researchers unravel process for the formation of rainstorms 

Nasa: Earth is warming at a pace 'unprecedented in 1,000 years'

Proxima b is in host star's habitable zone, but could it really be habitable?

 And September begins with a ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse over Africa