10th September - Today's News: British Weather Results in Fruitful Autumn

It's been a good year for the fruit in Britain. We've got the tastiest apples in decades as weather brings bumper harvest whilst the cold winter and mixed summer brings in a bumper berry crop too.

169 homes destroyed in Colorado wildfire and today there's a close watch on Colorado wildfire as winds pick up again

Kazakhstan proposes diversion of Siberian rivers to help drought-hit Central Asia - but are they remembering the law of unintended consequences? Russia destroyed the Aral Sea and increased drought in the region by diverting rivers in the 1960s, and a significant decline in fresh water flowing into the Arctic could have more far reaching consequences.

In Australia, Murray on alert for floodwaters but there's one bit of good news from the flooding as Lower Lakes to be joined again.

Meanwhile, UN says Burkina Faso flood victims need emergency aid - did you even know there'd been floods there since July?

There are high hopes in Carmarthenshire for autumn high tide whilst in Gloucestershire hundreds expected to turn up to watch Severn Bore. Unfortunately grey, damp, weather will not make for spectacular photo opportunities.

New Zealand quake no-go areas remain amid aftershocks

Fireballs light up Jupiter over the summer. And did an meteorite hit South America on Monday? Colombian authorities investigate fireball.

Phoenix Mars lander finds surprises about red planet's watery past

No respite as heavy rain lashes Haryana, Punjab while elsewhere in India, unusual rain in Spiti spells disaster for its green peas

There's interesting new evidence that the Younger Dryas 'deep freeze' didn't affect southern hemisphere

As Turkey's Mount Ararat glaciers shrink will Noah's Ark finally be revealed? Alas no. Aprt from just being a variant of an older Sumerian story which describes a tropical storm and storm surge washing away a primitive coastal settlement, not even the Bible says Noah landed on Mount Ararat.

More wind turbines needed to meet climate target. Wouldn't we be better off building power stations to supply our energy needs instead?

Strengthening La Nina culd mean more hurricanes this season - which really has been pretty quiet so far, especially in terms of effect on humans - though that's by no means a bad thing!

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