19th August - Today's News: "Satan's Storm" Hits Spanish Beach as Troops Battle Deadly Iberian Wildfires

Spain and Portugal fires kill two more as Spanish troops battle blazes

The moment tourists run for cover as freak 'Satan's Storm' lashes Spanish beach - while country battles wildfires in 45C heatwave and Portuguese villagers resort to fighting blazes themselves

Italy's Ventina glacier has melted so much geologists now can only monitor it remotely 

US East Coast faces life-threatening waves from Hurricane Erin

Sydney records most rain since weather station opened in 1858

'The water had no mercy': Hundreds killed as floods ravage north Pakistan with more than 200 missing in flood-hit district in Pakistan, official says and Pakistan floods and cloudbursts visualised in maps and satellite images

How 'misinformation is creating a moorland tinderbox' - though sadly that comes from both sides of the rewilding/grouse moor management debate.   And I don't believe 'keepers ever once considered that their actions were preventing wildfires, until the issue became a debate, whilst climate change remains the still barely recognised elephant in the room. 

And why scientists hope seabed mud could reveal Antarctic Ocean secrets

 

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