14th December - Today's News: More Record High Temperatures in Australia

In Australia, Penrith hits temperature record as hottest December day recorded at 43.4 degrees

One dead as storm sweeps Switzerland

Now it's floods (and more snow): Drivers are stranded and dozens of schools stay shut for third day

 but this morning the snow and ice has largely cleared for most.

Human-caused warming likely intensified Hurricane Harvey's rains as it's calculated that Hurricane Harvey rainfall 'weighed 127bn tonnes'

Meanwhile scientists conclude, based in 2016 extreme weather events, that humans have 'changed world's climate for the first time'

Did air pollution cause a deadly Chinese landslide?

The oldest ice core ever drilled outside the polar regions goes back 600,000 years and was drilled in Tibet

It appears that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability

How Greenland would look without its ice sheet

And how giant storms cause palpitations in Saturn's atmospheric heartbeat