Four dead sea turtles washed ashore on beaches along New Jersey Sunday, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center.

Three loggerhead sea turtles and one leatherback sea turtle were among those found at beaches in Spring Lake, Island Beach State Park in Berkeley, North Wildwood and the Townsends Inlet area of Sea Isle City, said Sheila Dean, co-director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center.

The three loggerhead sea turtles found weighed between 30 and 45 pounds each, she said. The leatherback, found in Townsends Inlet, weighed about 245 pounds, Dean said.

The turtle deaths did not appear unusual, she said.

Shortly after reporting to duty on Sunday, Dewey Beach lifeguards spotted a large object floating in the surf about 100 yards from shore, surrounded by seagulls. It turned out to be a severely decomposed leatherback which the guards brought on the beach at Cullen Street.

The remains were so heavy, lifeguards asked the police for an SUV to help drag it across the sand toward the dunes where they planned to bury it after experts from the Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute examine it.

Suzanne Thurman, MERR executive director, says this was the only leatherback reported so far this year. It was roughly five-feet long and 500 pounds in weight. She says leatherbacks can reach 1000 pounds. The leatherback is the largest of all living sea turtles and is critically endangered.

Coeur d'Alene - World-famous aircraft designer and North Idaho resident Burt Rutan looked at climate data and found deception - even fraud - behind the assertions of global-warming alarmists intent on implementing a world-wide climate fix that could bring about economic chaos.

Rutan found there was an enormous amount of data available to the researcher who might want to question these findings: thermometer measurements, ice cores, pine-cone and tree-ring proxies, thousands of different sources of data.

"Are they being ethical with the use of this data?" he asked. "You can cherry pick data."

Rutan started his career working as a civilian flight test engineer for the U.S. Air Force where there was no room for error in interpreting data - all the data. Later he found that some homebuilt aircraft kit builders were knowingly using bad data to sell their products, which gave him a healthy skepticism.

Propagandists know that if a lie is big enough and told often enough, it will then come to be seen as the truth. Al Gore's charge that human-caused global warming was leading to imminent cataclysmic climate changes spelling the end to life as we know it, fueled fears worldwide and helped to justify a second U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janero on June 20-22 to impose crippling carbon-use taxes on mostly first-world nations.

"If you want something to be, maybe a theory that you've modeled in a computer, you can 'prove it' with data and you can convince anybody who doesn't really look at all the data," Rutan said. "It's really easy to convince somebody that this is true and I found out real early that it's not true.

"I found out immediately that they weren't being ethical."

If someone is aggressively selling a product, whether airplanes or carbon credits, based on complex experimental data, he is likely lying, Rutan contended.

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan early on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter was 72 miles southeast of Morioka on Japan's Pacific coast, the USGS said, updating an initial report that said the quake was of magnitude 6.3 and 95 miles off the coast. The depth of the earthquake was 31.8 km (19.8) below the ocean floor. The epicenter of the 6.4 magnitude earthquake was 405 km (252 miles) NNE of Tokyo. No tsunami warnings have been issued and there were no reports of injuries.

Manali: Besides the eight Israeli nationals who are stranded in Pin valley of Lahaul-Spiti district of Himachal since June 5, the rising level of water in Kiri river has also put 2,500 residents of thirteen villages in trouble.

Stranded in their own treacherous valley, villagers had been seeking help for over a week as their ration and other commodities have almost depleted. Power supply and telephone connectivity to the valley has snapped and some confused and helpless villagers have already made failed attempts to cross the flooded stream, putting their lives in danger.

Larimer County Sheriff's officials said this afternoon that the number of homes lost in the High Park fire has reached 181, the most in Colorado history surpassing the Four Mile fire in 2010, which claimed 169 homes.

Meantime, the evacuation order for residents of the Santanka Trail area on the north end of Horsetooth Reservoir has been lifted. Residents in the neighborhoods of Soldier Canyon and Mill Canyon also will be able to return home starting at 6 tonight. This area will only be open to residents for the time being to give them time to move back in and for officials to secure the area.

Fire officials said the main priority for fire crews today remains structure protection and keeping the edge of the fire south of Poudre Canyon and north of Buckhorn Road in check.

Date-Time
Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 22:18:48 UTC

Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 06:18:48 AM at epicenterTime of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location
15.574°N, 119.609°E

Depth
35.3 km (21.9 miles)

Region
LUZON, PHILIPPINES

Distances
94 km (58 miles) SW of Dagupan, Luzon, Philippines

109 km (67 miles) NW of Olongapo, Luzon, Philippines

115 km (71 miles) WNW of Angeles, Luzon, Philippines

182 km (113 miles) NW of MANILA, Philippines

Imagine a volcano with enough power to wipe out much of the world with a single eruption.

Could it happen in our lifetime? Not likely, scientists say. But it could take a lot less time than previously suspected.

New evidence suggests that the lifespan of giant magma pools - which erupt through supervolcanoes - can last between 500 and 3,000 years. Previous evidence had suggested these pools lasted around 100,000 to 200,000 years before becoming super eruptions.

Supervolcanoes are said to be roughly 100 times the size of active volcanoes, spewing out more than 450 cubic kilometres of magma - enough to fill Sydney Harbour 900 times over. They lead to widespread destruction and climate change.

"Everybody now is familiar with the atmospheric effects of the eruptions of the Iceland events," says Guilherme Gualda, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Nashville's Vanderbilt University, referring to the 2010 eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano that caused air traffic nightmares and environmental concerns.

"You can imagine that multiplied by 100 and 1,000 and the effects become global in scale, rather than local or continental."

Bellvue, Colorado -- The number of homes destroyed in the giant High Park Fire west of Fort Collins jumped to 112 on Friday after fire officials were able to get a better assessment of the damage wrought by the nearly week-long blaze.

The largest number of homes lost -- 40 in all -- were in the Whale Rock area, according to Larimer County sheriff's spokesman Nick Christensen. Another 21 homes were destroyed in the Stratton Park area.

"That number will continue to grow," Christensen said.

An updated list of burned homes likely will be released Saturday after families are notified, he said. Areas currently being assessed for damage are Redstone, Buckhorn Road and Lawrence Creek, Christensen said.

This morning's official tally of burned homes was 48. The High Park Fire's containment figure of 15 percent and size of 52,000 acres didn't change at Friday afternoon's briefing.

Typhoon Guchol is forecast to strike Japan at about 18:00 GMT on 19 June. Data supplied by the US Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Center suggest that the point of land fall will benear34.0 N,137.1 E. Guchol is expected to bring 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around120 km/h (74 mph).

Wind gusts in the area may be considerably higher. There is also the potential for flooding further inland due to heavy rain. This is an extremely dangerous storm and people in low-lying areas or regions at risk should heed all emergency bulletins.