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Bolivia's vanishing Lake Poopó has fully evaporated


European Space Agency
Mon, 08 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
lake poopo bolivia
Proba-V tracks Lake Poopó evaporation
Monitoring Earth's surface every day, ESA's Proba-V minisatellite has had a ringside seat as the second largest lake in Bolivia gradually dried up. Lake Poopó has now been declared fully evaporated.

The three 100-m resolution Proba-V images shown here were acquired on 27 April 2014, 20 July 2015 and 22 January 2016 respectively.

Occupying a depression in the Altiplano mountains, the saline Lake Poopó has in the past spanned an area of 3000 square kilometres - greater than France's Réunion Island.

But the lake's shallow nature, with an average depth of just 3 m, coupled with its arid highland surroundings, means that it is very sensitive to fluctuations in climate.

Its official evaporation was declared last December. This is not the first time Lake Poopó has evaporated - the last time was in 1994 - but the fear is that any refilling might take many years, if it occurs at all.
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Arrow Down

Pickup truck falls into sinkhole in Kitchener, Canada


cbc.ca
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:24 UTC
The two men who were in the pickup truck are home safe after
© Andrea Bellemare/CBCThe two men who were in the pickup truck are home safe after "they had to do some swimming," boss says.
The pickup truck that fell into a sinkhole on Strasburg Road in Kitchener Wednesday morning was lifted out nine hours after the incident, according to Kitchener Utilities.

Although there had been fears that fuel from the truck could leak into the city's water supply, the utility confirmed Wednesday evening that the truck's fuel lines were not punctured when it plunged into the hole. The radiator was also intact.

"So, there was no risk of contamination," said Tammer Gaber, manager of operations for the utility.

Strasburg Road between Trillium Drive and Battler Road is closed while the water main is repaired.

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Blue Planet

SOTT Focus: Sinkholes: The groundbreaking truth

Timothy C. Trepanier and Michael Rasmussen
Sott.net
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 21:20 UTC
Sinkhole Guatemala
Before 2010, the presence of sinkholes was a relatively uncommon phenomenon. In the last 5 years there have been an unprecedented number of new sinkholes appearing around the planet on a size and scale never before seen. As of 2016, there are new ones opening up every day.

Not an isolated phenomenon, sinkholes are integrally linked to the emergence of other dramatic earth changes including increased earthquake activity, volcano eruptions, strange sounds and extreme weather events.

The emergence of so many sinkholes in such a short time is just one of many apparent portents of likely drastic changes to come. As they say - being forewarned is forearmed, and those who do not pay attention to the present become dreams of the past!

To find out more about just how many sinkholes have been appearing in recent years and how they are caused, watch the 13 minute video documentary below.

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Cow Skull

28-foot-long dead whale found in Ratnagiri, India

Clara Lewis
The Times of India
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:42 UTC
whale
A 28 feet long dead whale was washed ashore on the remote rocky coast of Aagari village of Dapoli taluka in Ratnagiri district. The dead whale was spotted on Wednesday night, said N Vasudevan, chief conservator of forests, in charge of marine bio-diversity.

The whale species is yet to be confirmed.

This is the third incident this year when whale have been washed ashore. While the whale at Juhu too was dead and the body washed ashore, at Dapoli, a blue whale that had come close to the shores, was directed back into the sea by local forest officials and villagers. At Juhu the body was buried in the sand.

Vasudevan said the site where the dead whale was found is rocky and difficult to reach. "We have collected tissues to ascertain the cause of the death but will not be able to bury it,'' he said. He said there was also no expertise to conduct a post-mortem.

"The body was highly disintegrated which indicates that it had died in the sea," he said.
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Arrow Up

Warm weather breaks over a dozen temperature records across Alberta, Canada

Claire Theobald
Edmonton Sun
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:31 UTC
record warm temperature in Calgary
© Drew Anderson/CBCThe ice that covered the Bow River just a few days ago has begun to thaw, thanks to consecutive days of above-zero temperatures in Calgary.
Warm weather broke over a dozen temperature records across Alberta on Tuesday, including in Edmonton.

The last record high temperature for Feb. 9 was set at 5.9 C at the Edmonton International Airport in 1995. On Tuesday, temperatures reached 7.9 C, setting a new record.

Temperature records were also broken in Brooks, Calgary, Claresholm, Drumheller, Grande Prairie, Jasper, Lethbridge, Lloydminster, Medicine Hat, Peace River, Sundre and at the Waterton Park Gate.

Colin Fong, meteorologist with Environment Canada, said the above average seasonal temperatures - which normally sit at -3.8 for this time of year - are caused by a ridge of high pressure.

"That ridge is just kind of ushering in that warm air from the south, keeping at bay all of those weather systems from the west," said Fong, keeping skies clear and temperatures warm.

"The highs are definitely on the good side of history, but as we see that ridge breaking down we're going to see that trend towards more of the normal," warned Fong.

Comment: See also: Records broken as winter heatwave hits Southern California

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Wolf

Dog touted as 'good with children' kills mother of two in Snug Harbor, North Carolina


13wmaz
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:59 UTC
dog attack
A mother of two in Snug Harbor died Wednesday after her dog mauled her inside her home.

Perquimans County Sheriff Eric Tilley said the attack happened around 1 p.m. in the 1200 block of Snug Harbor Road.

Suzanne Story, 36, died just as a medical crew from Norfolk landed to take her to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

Story's family told 13News Now she got the female Pit Bull from Virginia about a week ago after she saw an advertisement in a newspaper. The ad said the dog was good with small children.

"I think they had a problem with the dog and didn't know how to handle it, and they were just trying to get rid of it, and they did," said Story's stepfather, Randy Brown. "Found somebody that would take it, and ended up with a death."

Brown added that the people who had the dog gave her to Story at no charge.

"Brought the dog down here, and said that the dog was gentle, it was good with people, good with children, it had never attacked any person," Brown stated. "Why a dog would attack her, I mean, is beyond me, but it had to have been the dog, not her."

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Attention

3 tropical cyclones form at the same time in the Southern Hemisphere


Strange Sounds
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:28 UTC
3 tropical storms
© Google Maps3 tropical storms
Three tropical cyclones formed almost simultaneously in the Southern Hemisphere.

Daya was born in the Indian Ocean, whereas Eleven and Tatiana formed in the Pacific Ocean.

The tropical cyclone Daya formed east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and is moving in a south-easterly direction. In the eye of the storm, wind speeds were measured at 72 km / h, with gusts reaching 97 km / h.

Tropical cyclone Daya
Tropical cyclone Daya
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Attention

Fuego volcano spews ash onto nearby towns in Guatemala


9news.com.au
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:45 UTC
Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupts with fiery lava.
Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupts with fiery lava.
A restive volcano near Guatemala's capital spewed ash on nearby towns Wednesday, including on a colonial-era city popular with tourists, officials said.

The overnight eruption of Fuego Volcano - whose name means "fire" in Spanish -sent ash billowing up to five kilometers (three miles) into the sky and rivers of lava up to two kilometers long, according to Guatemala's Volcanology Institute.

Light tremors were also felt up to 25 kilometers away.

Strong gusts of wind could carry the clouds of "fine ash particles" to Guatemala City, 45 kilometers distant, said David de Leon, a spokesman for the government's disaster coordination service.

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Question

Mysterious bubbling sand filmed in Gaza


Strange Sounds
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:09 UTC
Sand bubbling in Gaza.
Sand bubbling in Gaza.
The sand is bubbling in Gaza.

Check out this video and look at what these people are gawking at... A mysterious bubbling desert.

How would you react, if you were looking at sand on the ground and it would suddenly start to move and make bubbles?

This mysterious phenomenon is just out of this world and still unexplained.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strike sparks a huge explosion at steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales

Amie Gordon
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:54 UTC
Fire crews from Mid and West Wales Fire Service were called to the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, around 8am, after a blaze ripped through the site
Fire crews from Mid and West Wales Fire Service were called to the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, around 8am, after a blaze ripped through the site
Steelworkers escaped with their lives after a huge explosion ripped through Britain's biggest steelworks plant this morning.

The massive blast - believed to have been caused by a lightning strike - rocked the Tata steelworks in Port Talbot, South Wales, shortly after a shift change at 8am.

Flames could be seen for miles around - and parts of the plant were evacuated as emergency services rushed to the scene.

Onlooker Mike O'Neill said: 'My car shook with the explosion as I drove past. I can see massive 100ft flames.

'There was also a huge plume of black smoke.'


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