4th August - Today's News: More Heatwave Impacts as Iberia Braces for Record High Temperatures

Another impact of the UK heatwave: Dry pitches could delay football season whilst UK heatwave sees golf courses ban smoking while playing and deaths rose 650 above average during UK heatwave – with older people most at risk.   And in the wider Europe heatwave: Side effects felt by zoo animals, sprout farmers and more as Europe faces its hottest day ever today with temperatures set to hit 118F

Lynchburg floods: Flooding fears spark evacuations in US city

Firenado! Shocking video shows the moment emergency crews pass dangerously close to a 143mph fire cyclone that ripped through Northern California

Meanwhile, in Canada's B.C. Wildfires 2018: 'Intense' lightning storms ramp up wildfires across the province

In Arizona, a mile-high haboob pictured swallowing up entire city

A saucer-shaped cloud spotted passing over Moscow ‘sparks fears aliens are about to land’

Interestingly, aerosol pollution is slowing the melting of Arctic sea ice, for now

The severity of drought during the Maya collapse has been quantified

Earthquakes can systematically trigger other ones on opposite side of Earth

Some exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth have been identified

And last year's death toll from Hurricane Maria estimated to be larger than previously thought