2nd October - Today's News: Over 1,600 Dead in India's Monsoon This Year

Latest figures show that, in total, over 1,600 killed in India's heaviest monsoon in 25 years - the most deadly natural disaster this year by some way.

An update on yesterday's story as Isle of Man flooding leaves residents trapped with more rain forecast after flash floods across Britain



The recent extent of fire damage in Gold Coast rainforest revealed - rain forests like this aren't supposed to burn ...

It's suggested that 'flight shame' could halve growth in air traffic.  I have my doubts. And, in any case, the number of flights is still expected to increase.

NASA's new black hole visualisation shows how gravity warps our view of them - and perhaps helps end the myth that they are holes.  They are not.  They are (very very dense) spheres.

Scientists estimate Earth's total carbon store - 99% of which is locked in rocks.  No doubt this will lead some ignorant people to claim that, in comparison, anything we add to the atmosphere is insignificant!

And, issued on 30th Sept, a few days later than some years, the Daily Express have produced the same fictional forecast as they do every year.  Britain faces COLDEST winter in decades.  Obviously, it doesn't.  And James Madden is a fraud.

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