After a warm, dry winter, temperatures were particularly high in the spring, getting the melt season off to a strong start.

If there's one certainty about weight loss, it's that there is no magic pill that can melt off your excess pounds.

And, so now, when the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.