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Thousands of dead birds, sea creatures and even seals wash up on coast in East Anglia, UK after Beast from the East

Emily Townsend
East Anglian Daily Times
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 17:23 UTC
Steve Piotrowski with a lapwing that has died in the extreme weather and been washed up on Thorpeness beach.
© SARAH LUCY BROWNSteve Piotrowski with a lapwing that has died in the extreme weather and been washed up on Thorpeness beach.
Catastrophe has hit the region's coastline with the fallout of the big freeze culling thousands of birds, scores of sea creatures and even a few seals.

Thousands of starfish, crabs, fish and sea birds have washed up dead in the wake of the Beast from the East - and experts are warning this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Shocking photographs revealing the sheer scale of the deaths on Suffolk and Essex beaches have emerged - with witnesses likening shorelines to graveyards.

Wildlife specialists believe last week's arctic blast froze food supplies for several species of sea bird and they flew to England to escape - only to find the Beast had followed them.

Suffolk-based naturalist Steve Piotrowski said: "It's a pretty drastic scene for wildlife and this is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Attention

Dead gray whale found on Angel Island beach in California

Toby Murphy
Infosurhoy
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:42 UTC
dead whale
The body of a dead whale washed up on the shore of Sand Springs Beach at Angel Island State Park sometime Wednesday.

A team of eight scientists from the Marine Mammal Center, the California Academy of Sciences and UC Davis confirmed Thursday the cetacean is a 28-foot juvenile male gray whale.

The team performed a necropsy that revealed a significant lack of muscle tissue and blubber and they concludedthe whale died of severe malnutrition.

"This particular gray whale was likely in its first year of foraging on its own in the wild, and it's unknown whether this juvenile was following a food source into San Francisco Bay prior to its death," Dr. Padraig Duignan, chief research pathologist at the Marine Mammal Center said in a statement.
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Attention

Carcasses of 23 dolphins found along coast in Tamil Nadu, India


The Indian Express
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 15:29 UTC
Most of the dead dolphins varied in size and weight and were in a highly decomposed state. (Representational)
Most of the dead dolphins varied in size and weight and were in a highly decomposed state. (Representational)
In the past two months, 40 dead dolphins (including the present 23) have been washed ashore in the coastal belt of Nagapattinam district.

The carcasses of 23 dolphins were washed ashore in Vedaranyam coast in this district in the past two days, forest department officials said. Most of the dead dolphins varied in size and weight and were in a highly decomposed state, they said.

Ayub Khan, Forest Ranger, Kodiakarai, said the forest department had passed on the information to the district administration and other top government officials.
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Play

Shocking footage shows leopard attacking residents of Indore, India


Sputnik
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:58 UTC
Leopard
© CCO

Chaos ensued as people were seen running in panic in the Indian city of Indore's Palhar Nagar neighborhood on Friday morning, when a leopard strayed into a residential area and injured four people.

A video has been released showing a ferocious feline attacking an Indian man, jumping out from a construction site in a busy area.

The leopard was first noticed entering a house under construction; from there it went into the residence of a local businessman, where it sat for about three hours, occasionally jumping out to attack a team of forest officials and onlookers.

Comment: There is something strange going on in India with leopards:

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Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Superfreeze marine life mass die off - Sheep buried in snow - Crop losses spread (VIDEO)


Adapt 2030
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:11 UTC
Stills from video by Juana Salas
Thousands of starfish wash up in Andalusia, Spain after 'Beast of the East'
After the European Superfreeze which the media termed The Beast from the East to avoid talking about Arctic temperatures in March in Southern Europe, the animal die offs are staggering along with the crops. Hundreds of thousands of starfish wash up with countless other types of sea life, sheep buried in snow drifts are being rescued by the tens of thousands as thousands already froze. Vegetable production from Spain to New Zealand being lost due to freak strong weather events sweeping the globe.


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Fish

Earthquake-hit Papua New Guinea left with dead fish, eels and prawns in polluted rivers

Leith Huffadine
Stuff
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:47 UTC
dead fish
Contaminated drinking water and disrupted rivers are making the aftermath of several powerful earthquakes in Papua New Guinea even worse.

Dead fish, eels, prawns and other debris are clogging silt and mud-laden waterways, causing stench and unsafe water, while properties have also been damaged.

The situation is being described as "disastrous" by the Governor's Office in the badly-hit Gulf Province.

In a public notice, the office stated: "Given the magnitude of the earthquake and its resulting damage upstream in Southern Highlands and Hela Province, consequential effects and changes in the rivers systems downstream is disastrous ...
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Attention

Thousands of starfish wash up in Andalusia, Spain after 'Beast of the East'


The Local (Spain)
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:56 UTC
Stills from video by Juana Salas
Thousands of starfish wash up in Andalusia, Spain after 'Beast of the East'
The storm that swept across Spain's southern tip last weekend not only caused damage to boats, cars and buildings along the coast but also brought devastation to the starfish population.

A carpet of the marine animals were washed up on Punta Umbria beach in Huelva on Monday in what conservationists believe was a direct result of Storm Emma.

A video uploaded by Juana Salas on Facebook showing the extent of the stranding has been viewed over half a million times:

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Bizarro Earth

Canadian moose moving from boreal forest to prairies


CBC
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:59 UTC
moose in calgary
© Lis RobertsonThese moose were seen wandering around the Strathcona Park and Aspen Woods neighbourhoods in southwest Calgary last month.
Better food sources and lack of predators mean moose are becoming more prominent in Alberta

More and more in recent years, moose have been making their way onto the prairies in what biologist and author Chris Fisher calls an "opportunistic adaptation."

Normally found in the boreal forest and Rocky Mountains - where they usually spent the winter months feeding on trees and bushes - moose have moved in recent years as they seek out new and easier to acquire food sources.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 6 cattle in Beaudesert, Australia

Ed Jackson
Perth Now
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:22 UTC
The cows were discovered two days after a storm swept through Beaudesert.
© Derek ShirleyThe cows were discovered two days after a storm swept through Beaudesert.
A Queensland farmer says the death of six cattle found lying in a row along a fence line on his property is a warning about the dangers of lightning strikes.

Derek Shirley discovered the dead animals two days after a storm at his mother's property in Beaudesert last month.

Three calves and three cows, worth approximately $10,000, were all dead following a lightning strike.

Mr Shirley said it was the first time he'd encountered a lethal lightning strike.

"The storm was on the Monday afternoon and at about 6pm there was one hell of a bang," Mr Shirley told AAP.

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Wolf

Baby girl dies following attack by family dog in Lee County, Virginia

Caroline Corrigan
wjhl.com
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:26 UTC
canine attack
© Angela Antunes / CC by 2.0
According to Sheriff Gary Parsons of the Lee County Sheriff's Office, a family dog mauled an 8-day-old baby at their home Wednesday.

He told News Channel 11 the baby girl passed away at UT Medical Center.

Sheriff Parsons said the call came in around 11:40 a.m. that a family pet had attacked a child. Within a matter of hours, the child was initially taken to Lonesome Pine Hospital, then Holston Valley Medical Center and then to UT Medical Center in Knoxville.

Parson said the baby girl had extensive injuries to the upper part of her body.

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