Climate change

 EcoWatch -  The United Kingdom has recorded its warmest spring since records began in 1884, prompting warnings for needed action on climate change. The season was also the sunniest on record overall for the UK, with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland recording their sunniest springs, and England experiencing its second sunniest since record keeping began in 1910, according to a new Met Office report.

The UK had 653.3 hours of sunshine this spring — 43 percent above the seasonal average. It outshone the 2020 record by more than 27 hours and has been the sunniest season since 1995.

...The UK has had eight of its 10 warmest springs since 2000, with the three hottest occurring since 2017, the Met Office said.

EcoWatch - A village in the Swiss Alps was buried by an enormous chunk of rock and ice that broke off of the Birch Glacier on Wednesday.

Mud and plumes of dust covered roughly 90 percent of the alpine village of Blatten, which had been evacuated on May 19 as a precaution.

“We have lost our village,” said Mayor of Blatten Matthias Bellwald during a news conference Wednesday evening, as The Washington Post reported.

Bellwald described the destruction as extensive and appealed for help with rebuilding.