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People cool off in the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park yesterday as hot weather finally hits London

Britain basks in sunshine at last. But is it all part of the same global pattern of freak weather?

That’s the jet stream, trapped by a warmer Arctic, sparking extreme weather across the planet

Also showing: Mud and Village at the End of the World

Mud (130 mins, 12A)

This Nasa image from 20 April 2013 shows Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord with Kap Atholl in the background seen during an IceBridge survey flight near Qaasuitsup, Greenland

Greenland death: How 100mph ice storms can blow in without warning

The Greenland expedition in which a British man has died is likely to have been hit by a sudden and violent storm which blows from the top of the ice cap, a veteran explorer has said.

Philip Goodeve-Docker (left), who died after getting into difficulty during a Greenland trek with Roan Hackney (centre) and Andy Norman, his team mates

British man dies on Greenland ice trek and two left 'critically ill' after snow and ice storm lashes adventurers

A British man has died after getting caught up in a severe snow storm during a trip of a lifetime to Greenland.

Cairn taking the plunge in Senegal as Greenland disappoints

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Feast: Noma Dumezeni as Yemaya

Feast, Young Vic, London

There was always the risk that Feast would turn into a glorified dog's dinner - but production avoids that with verve

(L-R) Bent Serjo (LARS KNUTZON), Kasper Juul (PILOU ASBÆK), Birgitte Nyborg Christensen (SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN), Amir Diwan (DAR SALIM)

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Ice floes off the coast of Greenland. The floes are frozen masses of seawater (saltwater) that float on the surface of the sea. The tracking of ice floes is important to both understanding critical environmental issues such as global warming, and to aid in Arctic navigation. Taken with a Canon EOS-1D X and EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM lens set to 16mm, exposure was 1/160sec at f/16, ISO400

WWF Arctic conservation expedition gallery

Professional photographer for Canon Europe, Thorsten Milse, recently accompanied the WWF's conservation sailing expedition to the Arctic as part of the WWF Last Ice Area Project.

1,000 cubic miles of ice has disappeared between 2003 and 2010 from polar caps

Fear of 'catastrophic' sea-level rise as ice sheets melt faster than predicted

Most experts believe they have underestimated the effects of climate change, survey suggests

Polar ice sheets are now melting three times faster than in the 1990s, but so far that's added just less than half an inch to already rising global sea levels, a new giant scientific study says

A chilling message: Ice sheets melting three times faster than 20 years ago

New research using satellite measurements shows polar caps are shrinking three times quicker than 20 years ago

The Business Matrix: Wednesday 17 October 2012

Greece sells ports and refinery

Cairn warms to Morocco

Cairn Energy has paid $60m (£38m) for a 50 per cent stake in an oil exploration block off the coast of Morocco.

This iceberg, bigger than Manhattan, recently broke off the Petermann glacier

The big thaw: Greenland ice cover is melting away

The vast ice sheet of Greenland, which holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 7.2 metres, underwent a remarkable transformation for a few days this month when scientists observed an unprecedented melting of its frozen surface.

The extent of surface melt over Greenland's ice sheet on 8 July and 12 July is seen in this Nasa handout image

Greenland ice sheet melting is unprecedented

The vast ice sheet of Greenland underwent a remarkable transformation for a few days this month when scientists observed an unprecedented melting of its frozen surface.

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