Tornadoes!!!!!

Tornadoes ripped through parts of Britain today, leaving a trail of destruction behind them.

Reports suggested that as many as 11 twisters formed separately early this morning as a cold front moved north-eastwards across England.

Dozens of homes have been damaged, rooves ripped off and trees uprooted by seven freak tornadoes that battered parts of Britain today.

The 80 mph winds, which were not predicted by forecasters, caused thousands of pounds to houses in Luton, Farnborough, Nuneaton, Northampton, Derby and Nottingham.

The first twisters hit in the midlands at about 6.30am before moving southwards, leaving a trail of damage in their wake.

Fishing in the news

Today I was reading about the Slimehead. Yes ….its a fish! Apparently it has been renamed as the Orange Roughy in an attempt to encourage people to eat it.

Rains threaten flood-hit Africa

The UN says there are fears of disease and locust infestation The UN is warning of fresh rains and outbreaks of water-borne disease across Africa, where flash floods have already affected more than one million people. Scores of people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced by the floods that have submerged much of the continent’s most productive farmland. The UN said there was an urgent need for food, shelter and medicine. At least 14 countries have been hit in West, Central and East Africa by some of the worst rains in living memory.

Will polar bears become extinct?

Most of the polar bears ‘will be wiped out by end of the century’.More than two thirds of the world’s polar bears will be wiped out by 2050, according to a shocking new study.By then, scientists say, global warming will have melted 42 per cent of the Arctic sea ice which the bears need to hunt and breed.

And by 2100, the experts warn, only a handful of the magnificent creatures will be left.

Polar bears depend on floating sea ice as a platform for hunting seals, their main food. But the ice is disappearing throughout the Arctic because of climate change.

The World is Shrinking!

Did you see the news today?

The Times have published a new atlas. The atlas in particular demonstrates the impact that people are having on the earth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6970000/newsid_6976800/6976861.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&ms3=22#