24th August - Today's News: 12 Dead as Typhoon Hato Hits Southern China

Typhoon Hato: Twelve killed as storm sweeps south China

Heavy rain in Northern England sparks flash flood chaos (it was, of course, perfectly dry in Evesham!).  Meanwhile, after the Northern Ireland floods: Clean up and questions

In Switzerland, village evacuated and climber dead in two separate Graubünden rockfalls

Huge boom as lightning strikes five metres away from man, blowing a smouldering hole in his garden and sending turf and debris flying in the air in Norway

 Cleanup underway after devastating storm hits Montreal

Harvey likely to be 1st hurricane to strike Texas since 2008

Bad news for the planet as money talks and Brazil opens vast Amazon reserve to mining - and here's a thought: why don't governments use all the money they raise through "green" taxes aimed at curbing CO2 emissions to buy areas of tropical forest to protect them  from deforestation - and to encourgae reaforestation?  Something which would actually help combat climate change .....  Instead of spending the money on bombs.

But some good news as a new study suggests that methane hydrate is not a smoking gun in the Arctic Ocean

And a new Arctic radar to probe 'space weather' to be built