30th June - Today's News: A Record Warm, Dry Start to Australia's Winter

Winter finally arrives in Tasmania with dusting of snow, as Australia braces for cold snap.  Meanwhile, the driest start to winter on record has farmers worried and Perth breaks June heat record

Torrential rain swamps Berlin’s streets, stretches firefighters to limits

Bergen sets new record for rain - with 26 consecutive days of rain this month

There's a 'very strong' climate change signal in record June heat, especially for Iberia

Temperatures in Iranian city of Ahvaz hit 127.4 degrees, near hottest on Earth in modern measurements

In the US, 27 large wildfires are burning across the West

Global tropical cyclone activity paltry so far, despite Cindy and Dora

More summer sunshine leading to increased Greenland ice melt

NASA's colorful clouds light up the sky

Incredible footage shows Boeing 787 Dreamliner create a giant billowing vapour-trail cloud (and not a chemtrail in sight)

'Bulges' in volcanoes could be used to predict eruptions

And a start warning that 'plastic pollution rivals the threat of climate change' - as I have said before, geologists in tens of millions of years time (if there are any) will identify the anthropocene not by any (geologically speaking) short term climate change but by the presence of plastic spherules in the sediments laid down all across the Earth