Skiing in Obergurgl for the second year running – temperature on Wednesday was 10degC, cf -10degC on that day last year.  I hear that people in Chamonix last week were skiing on grass and horse manure, not snow.

An iceshelf 5x the size of London collapsed recently in Canada -only now discovered during a recent analysis
of satellite images.  The event happened in the space of
an hour.  Sixteen months on, the 30m thick ice island is slowly melting, but is
still three-quarters the size it was when it broke away.

(from New Scientist)