19th April - Today's News: "Remarkable" Winds Hit Colorado

A ‘remarkable’ wind storm blasts Denver and northeast Colorado whilst snowmelt floods roads, fields in much of northern Montana

In Hawaii, survey finds flood damage in parts of Kauai worse than formerly thought

And tumbleweed piles two storeys high, fills backyards in US city of Victorville

Storm in West Bengal leaves 15 dead

Conditions in Scotland highlights weather contrasts during the first half of April whilst this week much of the UK enjoys hottest day of the year as country basks in mini heatwave- today could see the UK date record broken.   It'll all be over by Monday ....

There's a planned change to Scotland's biggest hydro project - a new pumped storage scheme that SSE hope to construct in the northern corrie of the Munro Sron a Choire Ghairbh above Loch Lochy

Great Barrier Reef: 30% of coral died in 'catastrophic' 2016 heatwave

Study reveals new Antarctic process contributing to sea level rise and climate change

Japanese volcano in Kirishima range erupts, first since 1768

How a warming planet led to peatland formation after the last glacial maximum

Meteorite diamonds tell of a lost planet from the early days of the Solar System, whilst a Martian moons model indicates formation following large impact