21st February - Today's News: NZ's "River of Rock"

Former cyclone Gita crosses New Zealand, leaving destruction in its wake whilst video shows how Canterbury's aptly named Terrible Gully turned to river of rock by ex-Cyclone Gita

Meanwhile cyclone season takes toll on northern WA as yet another tropical low looms whilst it's been suggested that Cyclone Kelvin may have been fuelled by 'brown oceans' as it moved over inland WA

Arctic sea ice at record low January levels

Research by Newcastle University suggests that Europe's cities face more extreme weather than previously thought as a result of rising global temperatures and climate change

Like the flap of a butterfly's wings, distant tropical storms have ripple effects on weather close to home

And another of those "forgotten" (not by me!) causes of anthropogenic climate change: How land use change has warmed Earth's surface