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La Palma volcano: Toxic gas fears as lava reaches ocean Hail and heavy rain hit Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills as storms roll through South Australia Hurricane Sam is latest monster in active storm season New evidence suggests that the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous was not caused by extreme volcanism  Antarctica's ice shelf being eroded because layer of slushy frozen water that would usually heal rifts is thinning, study finds And Jupiter's Great Red Spot is getting faster!

In Lincolnshire, a 'mini tornado' rips through Humberston and Thorngumbald on the Humber coast - sadly the BBC still haven't realised that whilst Mini make a convertible, a clubman and even an electric, they do not make a tornado .....   Meanwhile, the first snow of the season is reported on the Ben - quite late this year.  Man killed as Crete struck by 5.8-magnitude earthquake Heavy rains as Cyclone Gulab makes landfall in India There's lava spewing again from Canary Islands volcano, airport remains closed And how volcano powered climate change drove dinosaurs’ ascent to dominate planet Earth

More towns evacuated as volcanic eruptions on La Palma intensify Trucker’s dash cam captures hair-raising scene as Pa. tornado flips his semi-truck In India, there's a new cyclone heading towards south Odisha and north Andhra Pradesh coasts whilst further east, Typhoon Mindulle on path to become 'violent' storm And we may finally know what caused that huge ozone hole in the Arctic last year

There was torrential rain causing havoc in Mallorca this week, whilst on the mainland there were catastrophic floods in Huelva, Andalusia Tropical Storm Sam expected to reach hurricane strength by Friday night Canary Islands volcano: 'Miracle house' escapes lava This summer's minimum extent of Arctic sea ice 12th-lowest on record - however it is also younger and thinner. Air pollution: Even worse than we thought - WHO - and here we are panicking because there are not enough diesel articulated trucks on the road or gas for our heating  .....  Mars habitability limited by its small size, isotope study suggests And NASA satellites show how clouds respond to Arctic sea ice change

Mansfield magnitude 5.9 earthquake shakes Melbourne, regional Victoria, southern NSW, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide and Launceston Meanwhile, Queensland records wild day of weather with extremes of fire and sleet Earlier this week in Suffolk and Essex: Heavy rain brings flooding Evacuations hit 6,000 as lava gushes from Canary Islands volcano And as seas warm, cyclones could soon devastate Europe, warns ‘storm chaser’ climate scientist whilst the storm-steering jet stream could shift poleward in 40 years

Anyone fancy a hot holiday? On La Palma, in the Canaries, the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupts for first time in 50 years sending lava cascading towards towns Tropical Storm Rose forms as the 17th Atlantic storm of 2021, continuing the busy tropical season Record high temperatures and drought have left California's Mt. Shasta without its usual snowcover - and it is causing surrounding glaciers to melt Russia’s 2020 average temperatures broke all records – ministry Burundi floods: Lake Tanganyika's water levels rise And the hole in the ozone layer that develops annually is 'rather larger than usual' this year - and is currently bigger than Antarctica, scientists say

California fires: General Sherman and other sequoias given blankets Texas submerged and a flying shark: Footage shows devastation of storm Nicholas as it heads for Louisiana Tropical Storm Chanthu hits Japan, injuring at least six Did it really snow in Cameroon?   No.  As pointed out at the time, it was hail. According to the Met Office, nearly 40% of Brits caught out by winter weather - what winter weather???!!! And ahead of the COP26 conference on climate change: UN warning over nations' climate plans

Hurricane Nicholas brings heavy rain to Texas and Louisiana There are new weather alerts in four French départements after record-breaking storms caused flooding yesterday. Here, Tower Bridge floods as torrential rain lashes London Rare snow surprises residents in west Cameroon (though as the video clearly shows, it's actually hail) Antarctic air samples reveal 70% increase in atmospheric hydrogen over the past 150 years Bureau of Meteorology says La Niña's an even chance to return for a second consecutive spring And research by the BBC shows that the world now sees twice as many days over 50C than it did in the 1980s.

Summer 2021 is the hottest ever on record in the US Tropical Storm Nicholas in the western Gulf a major rainfall flood threat for Texas, Louisiana Meanwhile, California highway is closed and two firefighters are injured as wildfire threatens traffic Spain fire: Thousands flee blaze near Costa del Sol town Shanghai suspends flights, schools as Typhoon Chanthu approaches

'Apocalyptic' tornado hits Sicilian island of Pantelleria leaving two people dead Flash flooding in south west France after record rainfall Despite heatwaves elsewhere in Europe, French summer was officially the coldest and dampest since 2014 Nearly 800 forced to evacuate amid massive wildfire around Spanish resort town In Canada, there are thousands without power across eastern Newfoundland as Hurricane Larry wreaks havoc and when the storm reaches Greenland, Hurricane Larry will produce category 1 winds and... feet of snow Tropical storm Olaf brings heavy rains to Baja California Sur In east Asia, Super Typhoon Chanthu and Tropical Storm Conson to make landfall this weekend There's a changed landscape in southern Louisiana after Hurricane Ida: large new patches of open water Sea ice persists in the Northwest Passage, despite global warming Spectacular Ice Age landscapes beneath the North Sea revealed by 3D seismic “MRI” scans And incredible blue flashes light up th...

Tropical Storm Mindy Hits the Florida Panhandle Death toll from Hurricane Ida rises to 26 as Tropical Storm Mindy forms in gulf With ‘stunning’ strengthening: Pacific typhoon sees winds increase 130 mph in two days Seventeen patients die after hospital in Mexico floods amid torrential rain Mexico hit by powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake, killing at least one And Wales records hottest September night ever as the UK experiences a brief hot spell, already coming to an end as thunderstorms cause flash-flooding in Devon  

New Zealand records its warmest ever winter with average temperature of 9.8C Kim Jong Un calls for 'urgent action' on climate change after floods and droughts both destroyed vital crops in North Korea  Hurricane Ida death toll rises as recovery efforts continue whilst US southern states recovering from Ida face new flooding threat Hurricane Larry becomes a Category 3 storm -- this season's third major cyclone in the Atlantic Spain’s flood-devastated towns taken on massive clean-up Typhoon hits eastern Philippines, causing power outages

Storm Ida: Death toll climbs to 45 across four US north-east states as before-and-after satellite images show devastation caused in Northeast by remnants of Hurricane Ida and New York travelers were trapped on trains for ten hours in the dark And in Philadelphia, as tornadoes strike, horrified families watch their Philly-area homes explode around them Australia records near-record warmth during the wettest winter since 1996 One for the "new ice age coming, global warming is a hoax" mob: Arctic warming linked to colder winters Lightning strikes the same lamppost 12 times within seconds in spectacular storm over Chinese city And a new global warming simulation reveals possible end of El Niño/ La Niña temperature cycle  

New York declares state of emergency over 'brutal flooding' as the remnants of Hurricane Ida smash into Northeast leaving at least six dead and a Mississippi highway collapses in Ida’s wake, killing 2 people Meanwhile, devastating flooding and torrential rain hit much of Spain And New Zealand flash floods force evacuations in Auckland, motorists rescued by jet ski Whilst the WMO report a big increase in weather disasters over the past five decades South America's drought-hit Paraná river at 77-year low The year has seen one of the hottest summers in Scotland and N. Ireland - but August's cooler, cloudy but mostly dry conditions mean not quite so good in England.   My driest August on record though. Summer 2021 was Finland's hottest in over 80 years Rare snowfall in Atacama desert surprises residents of Chile How 'tipping points’ in Earth’s system triggered rapid climate change 55 million years ago And one in three trees face extinction in wild, says new repo...