3rd June - Today's News: Britain's Biggest Ever Wildfire

Cannich wildfire could be largest recorded in UK and although largely under control, the fire means the Kintail-Affric walking route shut due to wildfire waterbombing

And with no rain forecast for weeks, water scarcity issues expected to escalate rapidly across Scotland

Meanwhile Nova Scotia hopes forecast rain will help contain largest wildfire on record as Canada's wildfires force evacuations in Quebec as Halifax residents return to destroyed homes

Firefighters battle hundreds of blazes as Israel sizzles under blistering heatwave whilst there's havoc as wild winds send thick clouds of swirling sand skyward in south, center and Strong winds and sand storm sweeps across Egypt's Cairo 

A new health alert system aims to cut heatwave deaths in England (although I think they are just extending publicity of the existing system)

Japan storm: one dead and two missing as thousands urged to evacuate as the remnants of Typhoon Mawar hit 

Tropical Storm Arlene, the first named storm of the hurricane season, forms in the Gulf of Mexico

Odd weather patterns hit most regions of China

Vietnam urges industry to save energy during heatwave

Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says

World’s wheat supply at risk of a dangerous shock due to heat and drought, study warns whilst the Northern Ireland potato crops being hit by changing weather

But not all extreme weather events can be (or are) attributed to global warming: An attribution study shows that climate had no ‘significant’ impact on northern Italy floods in May 2023

Researchers uncover reasons to rethink how mountains are built

The amount of thermal energy stored by land masses has increased significantly since the 1960s

And tackling plastic pollution: ‘We can't recycle our way out of this’