18th May 2012 - Today's News: Hundreds Flee US Wildfires

Hundreds flee raging wildfires in Colo., Ariz. whilst the Colorado wildfire grows amid erratic gusts and summer forecast sparks concern over fires, water shortages with more hot, dry weather expected.

Meanwhile, scientists find that Southwest's modern megafires are truely unusual

Here in Britain, wild spring weather baffles bugs - but they'll be pleased to hear that current signs are that the predicted change to warmer, more settled, weather looks like setting in from next week.  Just hope it lasts through to June!

UK peatlands in degraded state, UN and Wetlands International warn

Alaska glacier's stunning retreat spied from space

1,000 years of climate data confirms Australia's warming  OMG they killed the MWP!  And no surrprise that the anti-science mob (who refuse to accept any suggestion that the MWP, ending around 700 years ago, wasn't warmer than today everywhere in the world) don't like that (as usual, many of the comments are quite amusing for their naivety and blind ignorance whilst others are just plain silly and childishly petulant). 

I posted the Daily Mail story on this earlier in the week, but always good to have a less 'journalistic' source: Humanmade pollutants may be driving Earth's tropical belt expansion

And an informative piece on Arctic sea ice: claims it has recovered miss the big picture

Have scientists finally found fragments of the meteorite which set off the mysterious 1908 Tunguska catastrophe?  - you mean it wasn't a UFO or black hole or a Tesla ray gun after all?