31st October - Today's News: Record High Tides Hit USA

Record-breaking high tides spark chaos – and kayak commutes – across California as king tides inundate streets and flood homes and businesses along both US coasts

Fears for mature Scots Pines burned by huge Highland wildfire

Overall, England has just had its wettest week for two years but still not enough rain to get out of drought - and not everywhere was all that wet

Slovenia mourns loss of glacier on its highest peak after scorching summer

El Niño-driven drought in Papua New Guinea a ‘national crisis’ as rivers dry up and local farms fail

Hector the giant thunderstorm arrives like clockwork every day during Top End's wet season

Smoke from wildfires killed 3,500 people in Indonesia in September: Report 

Bhutan glacial lake outburst triggers flood, no injuries reported

There were record heat-related deaths in 2023, WHO-partnered report finds

Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” could raise sea levels twice as much as predicted

 Scientists confirm global warming is accelerating faster than ever recorded 

And Super El Niño could kill 870,000 people around the world, warn climate scientists

 


 

 

 

 

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