Summer snow!
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Summer snow!
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Last month's highlights include:
- Record wildfires in Chile and Argentina (where there was also record rainfall)
- Record rainfall ending record drought in California
- Record one-day and monthly snowfalls in Japan and the US West
- Record tornado outbreaks in the US South
- Record one-day rainfalls in the US South
- Record-cold temperatures and snowfalls in eastern and southern Europe
- Record snowfall in the Sahara
- Record heat in Australia, and record cold in New Zealand
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The rooftops of houses are barely visible following blizzards in Kazakhstan this month.
The rooftops of houses are barely visible following blizzards in Kazakhstan this month.
Sperm whale
Davie Rea, from Our Lady's Island, said the dead whale appeared to be in reasonable condition apart from the battering it had taken coming in over the rocks.
'I couldn't believe it when I saw it,' said Davie, who daily walks the shoreline between Nethertown and Carnsore Point.
Kevin MacCormick, from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group, said the dead whale was a sperm whale that weighed around 11 tonnes.
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One in five species now face extinction, but that figure could rise to as many as half within 80 years.
One in five species now face extinction, but that figure could rise to as many as half within 80 years.
"The living fabric of the world is slipping through our fingers without our showing much sign of caring," say the organisers of the Biological Extinction conference held at the Vatican this week.
Threatened creatures such as the tiger or rhino may make occasional headlines, but little attention is paid to the eradication of most other life forms, they argue. But as the conference will hear, these animals and plants provide us with our food and medicine. They purify our water and air while also absorbing carbon emissions from our cars and factories, regenerating soil, and providing us with aesthetic inspiration.
"Rich western countries are now siphoning up the planet's resources and destroying its ecosystems at an unprecedented rate," said biologist Paul Ehrlich, of Stanford University in California. "We want to build highways across the Serengeti to get more rare earth minerals for our cellphones. We grab all the fish from the sea, wreck the coral reefs and put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We have triggered a major extinction event. The question is: how do we stop it?"
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A mudslide triggered by the recent heavy rains has damaged Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on Highway 1 in Big Sur beyond repair.
A mudslide triggered by the recent heavy rains has damaged Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on Highway 1 in Big Sur beyond repair.
The Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge spans a valley that has exploded with the cracking of falling redwood trees and the crash of rocks as the condemned bridge slides slowly toward the sea.
Two weeks ago, local James Wolfenden, 71, was out hiking when he spotted a jagged crack in the bridge's underbelly. It has since slid downhill several feet — though Caltrans isn't sure just how much because rain washed its markers away. Its northern end is visibly buckling and sagging like a roller coaster stopped in time.
The body of Moses was found with multiple injuries after the incident which police confirmed happened last Saturday. The incident occurred in Plumtree, a town located in the Bulilimamangwe district in southwestern Zimbabwe.
The state-owned Chronicle newspaper reports that the deceased in the company of two other friends, Mutheseli Sibanda and Magezi Nyathi, saw three elephants in a bushy area and tried to drive them to a clearly in order to take photos with them.
The elephants - a bull along with two males - reportedly charged at the three. The two others managed to safely escape whiles Moses who the male elephant caught up with died after he was trampled upon.
Bored with bamboo?
The meter-long panda was spotted by locals climbing down from a mountain near Muping village and wandering for 20 minutes before it attacked a goat.
Pictures taken by a local showed the bloody bones of a goat at the scene of the attack. The goat belonged to another local.
Employees of the Mabian County Forestry Bureau traveled to Muping after receiving a report of the attack and collected some of the panda's excrement.
A 3.9 magnitude earthquake rocked the notorious Song Tranh Hydropower reservoir at 11:20 a.m. on February 26; local authorities described it as the strongest measured in a year.
Vietnam's Institute of Geophysics says the quake originated roughly 10 km below the ground in Nam Tra My District.
"The quake lasted five seconds, shook many houses and was followed by the shock of explosion," said the District Chairman Ho Quang Buu. "Many people rushed out of their houses in fear."
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The Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant in Nam Tra My District, Quang Nam Province. The dam is suspected of having caused a series of minor earthquakes several years ago.
The Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant in Nam Tra My District, Quang Nam Province. The dam is suspected of having caused a series of minor earthquakes several years ago.
Dead dwarf sperm whale
Fisherman Cocoy Saa said two whales were earlier spotted near the shore, and one of the whales seemed to push the other to shallow waters before it left.
According to Laboratory Analyst John Roy Obsines of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources' (BFAR) region 10 office, the dead whale might have suffered from stress, and was the victim of a shark attack.
The small whale had several injuries--its wounds were round, and seemed to be cookiecutter shark bites.
Comment: One suspects that Ehrlich couldn't be happier if billions of humans simply vanished. This author of the Population Bomb has been scaremongering about global warming and overpopulation for years.