8th February - Today's News: Tornadoes Strike New Orleans

More than 16,000 people left without power in Louisiana after at least seven tornadoes tear across the state with 28 injured in New Orleans

In the Cairngorms, a 'willy-willy' hits chilly hilly: Rare 100ft tall snowado is spotted on Scottish mountain - and we could even see a snow flurry in Evesham later this week.

In Sidmouth, nervous homeowners see large chunks of their gardens disappear as latest cliff fall threatens their homes - and the Daily Fail still hasn't recognised that storm "Doris" hasn't occurred yet! 

SA's far north to sweat through 'unusually' long heatwave: BOM

An ancient undersea landslide discovered in Australia - happened 300,000 years ago

Tropical Cyclone Carlos brews up in the Indian Ocean

The shocking animation that reveals how a massive Antarctic crack has grown 17 miles in the last two months

Research predicts extreme fires will increasingly be part of our global landscape

Were waves to blame for the Great Dying? Researchers say shoaling 252 million years ago may have stirred up chemicals on the sea floor that killed off 90% of life on the planet - per "Mayhew's Law" it's unlikely to have been the sole cause, but may be an additional, contributory, factor.

NASA's Curiosity Rover sharpens paradox of ancient Mars - basically, back when the young Sun was cooler, there doesn't appear to have been enough carbon dioxide to make Mars warm enough for liquid water .... which we know did exist back then.

What happened to the sun over 7,000 years ago?  Analysis of tree rings reveals highly abnormal solar activity in the mid-Holocene c5480BC

And the moon is on a collision course with Earth - but don't worry, it won't hit for anothert 65,000,000,000 years.