22nd August - Today's News: Deadly Californian Wildfires Worsen as Governor Asks for Help

Motorists desperately try to escape California wildfires that have killed six with two of the blazes now in the state's top ten biggest ever as Gov. Newsom pleads with Australia and Canada to send help

In Australia extreme weather conditions force road closures in NSW, good falls in snow fields

Friday saw more flood warnings as severe weather brings disruption to Wales after the 95mph tree-toppling gales of Storm Ellen that left two dead including girl, 15, who drowned in Welsh river

Waterspout whipped onshore as tornado, downing trees and spooking South Florida residents

With two storms developing in the Gulf of Mexico at the moment, and a third in the Atlantic, could the US and Caribbean be heading for their worst hurricane season?

Meanwhile, on the pacific coast tropical storm Genevieve kills two people in western Mexico

Water inside China's Three Gorges Dam nears maximum levels

Japan's heat wave poses challenge to medical system already hit by virus

Last year saw 'unprecedented' ice loss as Greenland breaks record

Arctic ocean moorings shed light on winter sea ice loss

The end of Green Sahara linked to SE Asia megadrought 4,000 years ago

Ozone across northern hemisphere increased over past 20 years

Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows

And suggestions that billions of years ago ancient Mars was flooded during storms that could have lasted thousands of years and released up to 520 feet of precipitation

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