16th December - Today's News: Fuiji Braces for Category 5 Cyclone Yasa

Fiji braces for 'dire situation' as Category 5 Cyclone Yasa threatens 600,000 people whilst in Tonga there's a much weaker Tropical Cyclone Zazu tracking between Vava'u and Ha'apai

In Australia, another severe weather warning issued for Sydney as heavy rain continues to flood parts of NSW with Byron Bay's Main Beach 'all but disappeared' as a result of the storms

Strong evidence that lightning 'gouged channels' into Scottish mountain

A68a iceberg: Science mission to investigate frozen giant as it nears South Georgia

Wildfire hotspots in the western US and Arctic reached 'unprecedented intensity' in 2020 – but global fire emissions are decreasing overall, satellite data shows

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet could lead to a sea level rise of 18 cm in 2100 - past predictions of sea level rise by the end of the century have sensationally been anything up to 2 metres ....   This does seem a bit more realistic (but doesn't include other glacial and Antarctic melt, of course)

How the moon controls the release of methane in Arctic Ocean

AI model shows promise to generate faster, more accurate weather forecasts

And a spectacular total solar eclipse plunges parts of Chile and Argentina into darkness as the moon passes between the Sun and Earth

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