9th December - Today's News: Australian Heatwave and Storms

In Australia, there's heatwave, fire, flood and cyclone: Sydney temperatures peak at 43C amid wild weather across Australia as NSW temperatures rise above 40C before late-afternoon storm damages homes on Central Coast while 'unusually slow' tropical Cyclone Jasper could re-intensify before crossing the Queensland coast, BOM says

Cornwall and Devon hit by heavy rain and flooding on Thursday - the good news is that after this weekend it looks like turning a bit drier and more settled for the run in to Christmas.   A small possibility of then colder for Christmas itself.

And after Thursday's rain cleared there was a Pink sky: Why did the clouds above Wales change colour?

In Chennai: Heavy rains from Cyclone Michaung leaves trail of destruction in city

Coral reefs in peril from record-breaking ocean heat

COP28: Five reasons for optimism on climate

Geoscientists map changes in atmospheric CO2 over past 66 million years - confirming it's now the at the highest level in 14 million years

The ocean may be storing more carbon than estimated in earlier studies

Scholars say it's time to declare a new epoch on the moon, the 'lunar Anthropocene'

And Anna Mani: Why you need to know this Indian weather scientist

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