16th October - Today's News: Switzerland's Shrinking Glaciers

Switzerland's glaciers have shrunk by 10 per cent in just five years and are melting 'at record speed'

Lebanon calls for help as forest fires spread, the worst they have experienced in decades

In Ireland, it's suggested that a bizarre localised 'mini-tornado' damages homes during torrential rain (nothing bizarre about it and, obviously, by definition, tornadoes are going to be localised!)

On Majorca, a freak storm causes serious damage to Puerto Andratx

And in northeast Greenland, how extreme snowfall kept most plants and animals in one Arctic ecosystem from reproducing