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Two pit bull terriers maul man to death in Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Devon Koen
Times Live (South Africa)
Tue, 01 May 2018 15:03 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK
A horrific 40-minute ordeal in the late hours of Monday night left a Port Elizabeth man dead after he was mauled by two pitbulls.

Another man who tried to intervene was also savaged and taken to Livingstone Hospital after residents desperately tried - and failed - to pry the animals off using a stun gun, sticks, boiling water and by ramming the dogs with their vehicles.

Ruan Redgard, 27, whose clothing was ripped off his body, died shortly after being dragged into a nearby garden by residents when the dogs were eventually chased away by an ADT vehicle.

The attack on Redgard was unprovoked as he was walking back to his Magnolia Street, Algoa Park home at about 10pm, according to eyewitnesses.

Comment: See also this recent report from the same country: Two pit bulls terriers maul woman to death in Durban, South Africa

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Sun

NASA: Sunspots are vanishing faster than expected

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That
Tue, 01 May 2018 13:29 UTC
Sunspots are becoming scarce. Very scarce. So far in 2018 the sun has been blank almost 60% of the time, with whole weeks going by without sunspots. Today's sun, shown here in an image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, is typical of the featureless solar disk:
sunspotless sun
© Solar Dynamics ObservatoryThe sun today, from the Solar Dynamics Observatory
The fact that sunspots are vanishing comes as no surprise. Forecasters have been saying for years that this would happen as the current solar cycle ("solar cycle 24") comes to an end. The surprise is how fast.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kills 9 across West Bengal, India


Millennium Post
Wed, 02 May 2018 08:47 UTC
Representational image
Representational image
Nine persons were killed and others injured in lightning strikes and thunderstorms across the state.

Three persons were killed and some others injured after they were struck by lightning in separate incidents in Murshidabad, while one person died in the same district after a wall fell on him during a thunderstorm on Wednesday morning.

Three more were killed in Nadia. Two were killed in North 24-Parganas, while one was killed in North Dinajpore.

A thunderstorm, coupled with rain, lashed the district on Wednesday morning. According to an administrative official from the district, there was heavy shower in various parts of Murshidabad for more than three hours, when the accidents took place. The regional meteorological centre at Alipore has predicted thunderstorm in the city and its adjoining districts on late Wednesday night.

Comment: A few days ago in the same state at least 13 people were killed and 25 injured by lightning strikes .

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Seismograph

Shallow 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits near the Easter Island region


Earthquakes Today
Wed, 02 May 2018 08:34 UTC
quake
A earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Easter Island region (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dw7i. Unique identifier: us1000dw7i. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 06:32:52 / May 2, 2018 @ 6:32 am.

The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.53 km (15 miles) below the earth's surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -111.7234° West, -24.0993° South, depth 23.53 km.

The 6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:32:52 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter).
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Info

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: The news is a whirlwind: Before the thaw started


Adapt 2030
Wed, 02 May 2018 20:51 UTC
snowstorm
Looking back less than two weeks ago, these were the conditions in the US and Canada. Now contrasts to what you are seeing of all beach images and warm. Two weeks, thats it, between what you see now on the news and your reality a week ago. Record cold, record snow for a season,record ice, cold weather crop losses and blizzards. Did you forget so quickly with the media throwing news at you faster than ever and more bizarre than ever?


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Attention

Thousands of jellyfish-like creatures wash up on Barcelona beaches

David Brennan
Newsweek
Wed, 02 May 2018 20:15 UTC
Thousands of Velella velella near Barcelona
Thousands of Velella velella near Barcelona
Barcelona's beaches have been carpeted with thousands of mysterious jellyfish-like creatures, turning the city's white sands a rich shade of blue, thelocal.es reported.

Fortunately the animals, identified as Velella velella, are relatively harmless to humans, making this invasion more of a natural marvel than a toxic emergency.

Velella look like jellyfish, but are actually floating colonies of microscopic hydrozoans—tiny predatory creatures that generally live far offshore in open waters. Velella have small, stiff, sail-like structures to harness the power of the wind and allow them to travel across the water in search of plankton and other small prey.
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Cloud Precipitation

Flooding in Somalia affects 500,000 people

Yurou
Xinhua
Wed, 02 May 2018 19:43 UTC
The heavy rains and flash floods come only months after a devastating drought
© UNThe heavy rains and flash floods come only months after a devastating drought
Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has appealed to the international community to support efforts to help 500,000 people affected by the floods that has displaced close to 175,000 from their homes.

Mohamed who visited Somalia's central region of HirShabelle to assess the impact of flooding on Monday said his government was taking action to address the humanitarian crisis caused by the floods.

"We have formed a national disaster committee to respond to the needs of our fellow citizens who have been affected," he said in a statement issued on Tuesday evening.

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Snowflake

May snowfall on Mount Lemmon, Arizona following overnight storm


Arizona Daily Star
Wed, 02 May 2018 18:47 UTC
A webcam posted on Mount Lemmon shows Tuesday night's snowfall.
© Summerhaven Radio Ridge WestA webcam posted on Mount Lemmon shows Tuesday night's snowfall.
While many parts of Tucson saw overnight rain, residents of Mount Lemmon were treated to overnight snow.

With temperatures in Tucson having already broken 90 degrees and rapidly approaching 100, a temporary reprieve from the heat likely upsets no one.

The Radio Ridge West webcam posted on Summerhaven caught the snowfall on tape. Check out the video by clicking on the link below.

Summerhaven: Radio Ridge West
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Seismograph

Fears Hawaii's Kilauea volcano will erupt at any moment following 250 earthquakes in the region in 24 hours

Tim Collins
Daily Mail
Tue, 01 May 2018 14:28 UTC
A series of earthquakes and the collapse of the crater floor at Hawaii's most active volcano
A series of earthquakes and the collapse of the crater floor at Hawaii's most active volcano could trigger an eruption, officials have warned. The lava lake at the summit of Kīlauea is one of several persistent on Earth. This image shows how it appeared on the evening of April 11
A series of earthquakes and the collapse of the crater floor at Hawaii's most active volcano could trigger an eruption at any moment, officials have warned.

Lava may burst through the ground east of Kilauea, one of five volcanoes on the US state's largest island, experts say.

The warning follows 250 seismic readings over the past 24 hours, with similar activity recorded prior to previous eruptions in the area.

In mid-April, an observatory issued a volcano activity alert when scientists noticed the Puu Oo vent was inflating and becoming pressurised.

The crater floor of the vent has since collapsed, and an 'intrusion' of lava was sent into a new area of the volcano which spread throughout last night.

Underground magma, which now flows beneath a main road and close to the residential district of Puna, could cause fatalities if it blows.
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Wolf

Raging pack of stray dogs maul 3 children to death on the same day in Uttar Pradesh, India - 14 such deaths in the state since January

Afp and Julian Robinson
Daily Mail
Wed, 02 May 2018 13:46 UTC
canine attack
© Angela Antunes / CC by 2.0
A raging pack of stray dogs mauled three young children to death on the same day in India - before angry villagers took revenge by killing 13 of the animals.

Villagers in Khairabad in Uttar Pradesh state took the law into their own hands after being gripped by panic over daily attacks that have now left 14 children dead since January.

The three children, all aged under 12, were killed by packs of dogs in separate attacks on Tuesday as they collected mangoes in fields outside the village.

A 2001 animal welfare law outlawed the killing of stray dogs. But the Khairabad villagers shot dead three and beat to death at least 10 others.

'Our investigations revealed the children were alone at the time of attacks,' district police chief Sureshrao A. Kulkarni told AFP, confirming the three latest deaths.
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