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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said they are responding to the scene where the bear injured a man and his dog in Santa Rosa County.
The man reportedly let his dog out into the front yard, not knowing there was a bear outside. The dog was hurt so the man went to get the dog when the bear swatted him.
FWC said the man's injuries are not life-threatening and he was released from Gulf Breeze Hospital after receiving treatment Saturday night. The dog is also said to be okay.
FWC is investigating the incident, collecting evidence, and is starting trapping efforts in the area.
Glaucous gull
About 50 sea gulls have been found dead or paralyzed from the neck down.
"We have never seen a situation like that," said state Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Michelle Tirhi. "It was a mystery to our biologists and veterinarians."
Ill birds have been found in a seated position with only their heads moving.
"One could walk up to them and pick them up," Tirhi said. "They can't fly, they can't walk, they can't move."
Port workers began finding dead and sick gulls Sunday night.
© Credit Karen Clar / The Virginia-Pilot
Beached Cuvier Whale at the Outer Banks found Sept. 2016
Beached Cuvier Whale at the Outer Banks found Sept. 2016
Chris Thomas has more possible causes for the increased number of strandings along our coast.
North Carolina is home to 8 kinds of whale, including humpback, pilot, and blue - many of which are endangered.
William McLellan is a research biologist at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington and is the state coordinator for its Marine Mammal Stranding Program.
"North Carolina has one of the highest diversity of whale, potentially the highest diversity of whale and dolphin/porpoise species on the Atlantic Ocean."
© Giovanni Isolino/AFPAn eruption at Mount Etna, one of the world's most active volcanoes, in 2015.
Seismic experts at Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (Ingv) registered more than 60 tremors on Monday morning - the most significant measuring at least 3.5 magnitude, at 10:51am. The quakes began shortly after 6am, and five have measured over 3.0 in magnitude.
Local authorities have alerted residents to the series of tremors, which have had their epicentre between Ragalna and Monte San Leo, at around 14km deep.
Ingv said there was "nothing unusual" about the volcanic activity, and there have not been any reports of damage to buildings or any injuries caused by the quakes. In the towns of Ragalna, Nicolosi and Bronte on the south side of the volcano, schoolchildren were evacuated on Monday morning as a precaution.
Etna, nestled between the cities of Messina and Catania, is Europe's most active and highest volcano and Italy's highest peak south of the Alps. Together with Mount Vesuvius near Naples, it is one of 16 volcanoes in the world designated as 'Decade Volcanoes' by the UN, which means that they are studied particularly closely due to the frequency of activity and density of nearby population.
It is in a near-constant state of activity, and striking video footage from the past week shows the snow-covered peak sending out clouds of smoke.
© Leonora PolicePolice in Leonora, 830km north-east of Perth, tweeted this picture of a massive thunderstorm rolling into town on Monday.
The maximum temperature in Perth on Monday reached just 20.3 degrees, making it one of the coldest January day's on record. The coldest ever was 19.7 degrees back in 2007.
The average maximum temperature for Perth in January is typically a much warmer 31.6 degrees.
A total of 31.8 millimetres of rain fell in the Perth gauge between 9am Monday and 9am Tuesday making it the wettest January day in Perth since 2000 and the heaviest rain Perth has seen since July 17 last year when 32.8 millimetres fell.
For the entire month of January, Perth has recorded 45.4 millimetres of rain, making it the sixth wettest January on record.
The average is just 9.7 millimetres.
© Lynda Lybeck Robinson, APThis photo taken Dec. 21, 2016 and provided by Lynda Lybeck Robinson shows the Bogoslof Volcano erupting in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. A volcano in the Aleutian Islands erupted Friday.
Bogoslof Volcano erupted Friday morning, and the observatory says it generated an ash cloud that may be as high as 25,000 feet.
Volcanic ash above 20,000 feet is a threat to airliners flying between Asia and North America.
The volcano 850 miles southwest of Anchorage has erupted more than 25 times since mid-December and could continue periodic eruptions for months. It also erupted Thursday.
After Friday's event, the Aviation Color Code was raised from orange to red, the highest level. The observatory says the cloud could reach 30,000 feet.
The National Weather Service issues alerts to traffic controllers after significant eruptions.
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A large chunk of the Larsen C shelf, which is more than 80 times the size of Manhattan, is threatening to calve into the ocean.
The unprecedented splintering of the 10,000-year-old ice shelf could form an iceberg about 5,000 sq km (1,930 sq miles) in size and drastically change the landscape around the Weddell Sea.
A compilation of images from the European Space Agency (ESA) Copernica Sentinel-1 satellites reveal how part of Larsen C is hanging by a thread after a 175km (109 mile) crack opened up on its western side.
Since the start of the year, the fissure has increased by a further 20km along the 350m-thick ice shelf.
© cetus.ucsd.eduCommon Dolphin
One, a common dolphin, was found on Torcross beach by the crew working on the road there, while another washed up on Broadsands and a third washed up at Yarmer Sands, both in Thurlestone.
It is unknown why the three dolphins washed up, and two are scheduled to be picked up by the Natural History Museum for post mortem, while the one at Broadsands is too decomposed to be autopsied.
The dolphin that washed up on Yarmer Sands, Thurlestone
© Courtney FowlerTaralee Orchard's apricot harvest was a seventh of the normal size crop after the unseasonally wet spring.
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Comment: The Aleutian Islands volcanoes are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area subject to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The Bogoslof volcano has seen quite a bit activity recently:
January 18: Alaska's Bogoslof Volcano erupts again, sends ash cloud to 31,000 feet
January 12: Photographs show how recent eruptions at Alaska's Bogoslof volcano have changed island
January 5: Bogoslof Volcano in the Aleutians back at Red Alert
December 29: Increased seismic activity at Alaska's Bogoslof volcano
December 27: Bogoslof volcano alert raised to red by the Alaska Volcano Observatory
December 23: For second day running, Bogoslof volcano eruption sparks aviation alert in Alaska
December 21: Bogoslof volcano in Alaska erupts briefly, spews ash cloud 34,000 feet