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Attention

Man dies in Western Australia after shark attack - 4th such death in the country this year


Al Jazeera
Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:15 UTC
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A man has died after he was bitten by a shark off the south coast of Michaelmas Island in Western Australia.

The 35-year-old was attacked while spearfishing with his family close to the town of Albany, police said.

The man was treated by paramedics but died of his wounds.

Police said a 4.5metre (15ft) shark of an unknown species was spotted by a witness near Michaelmas Island, which does not receive many visitors.

The state's Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development urged people to take "additional caution" in the area and to stay abreast of shark sightings.

This is the fourth shark killing this year in Australia.
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Tsunami

Typhoon Jangmi sweeps northwards leaving 23 injured in Japan - 4 inches of rain in 3 hours


Guardian
Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:03 UTC
Sustained wind speeds of 80mph (130kph) were recorded in Japan on Monday.
© Franck Robichon/EPASustained wind speeds of 80mph (130kph) were recorded in Japan on Monday.
Typhoon Jangmi (also known as Typhoon No 6) moved northwards over the course of this week. From Okinawa to mainland Japan, prolonged and heavy rainfall led to landslide warnings and the flooding of rivers, with Japan issuing level 4 warnings for some rivers, signalling a risk of overflowing. This level is high enough for municipalities to issue evacuation orders. Three-hourly rainfall totals on Wednesday reached 105mm in Chiyoda, Tokyo, which was a record high for the month. Sustained wind speeds of 80mph (130kph) were recorded on Monday - making it a category 1 typhoon - bringing damage and disruption to businesses, transport, infrastructure and the environment.

By Wednesday, 23 people had been injured, 17 of whom were in Okinawa. The typhoon damaged 57 homes and led to 60,000 homes losing electricity. In addition to this, 1.52 million people were advised to evacuate by authorities. The typhoon damaged the exterior wall of Himeji Castle, a Unesco world heritage site in western Japan. The maximum recorded wind speed at Himeji was 56mph, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The typhoon has now weakened into a tropical depression and has moved eastwards, away from the islands.

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Volcano

Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupts, forcing airport to close


Channel News Asia
Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:06 UTC
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A highly active volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted several times on Friday (Jun 5), spewing towering ash columns into the sky and forcing a local airport to close, authorities said.

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Flores Island erupted at 11.15am, sending volcanic material 2.5km into the air, the national volcanology agency said in a statement.

It came after several other eruptions earlier on Friday.

Lewotobi Laki-Laki falls under Indonesia's second-highest alert level for volcanic activity, with a 5km exclusion zone in force around its crater.

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Snowflake

Banff Sunshine ski resort in Alberta gets fresh dump of 10 inches of summer snow

Phoenix Phillips
City News
Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:57 UTC
June 1 at Banff Sunshine, AB.
© Banff Sunshine FacebookJune 1 at Banff Sunshine, AB.
Banff Sunshine Village got a fresh dump of snow in recent days as it gets set to offer summer skiing later this month.

The resort says 25 centimetres fell over the weekend, and another 18 centimetres were expected to touch the ground on Monday and Tuesday.

The snowfall comes as they get ready to reopen runs for June skiing, something that has happened only twice in the past three decades.

The resort last offered summer skiing four years ago, and before that, not since 1991. Sunshine's VP of marketing, Kendra Scurfield, says the team moved quickly once it became clear the mountain was getting a late‑season boost.

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Snowflake

Rare summer snowfall in central Mongolia

Sergey Matsera
open.kg/en
Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:39 UTC
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Rare summer snowfall fell in central Mongolia on Wednesday, the National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring reported
On Wednesday, central Mongolia experienced an unusual summer snowfall, as reported by the National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring.

In the Esönzüil sum, located in the Övörkhangai aimag, snow covered the ground with a layer of 10 to 15 centimeters.

Despite Mongolia's reputation for its harsh continental climate and long winters, snowfalls during the summer months remain a rarity.

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Lightning

Lightning strike kills 13 cattle in Bangladesh

Md Saiful Islam
Dhaka Tribune
Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:25 UTC
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Thirteen cows and a buffalo were killed in a lightning strike in Juri upazila of Moulvibazar yesterday.

The incident occurred in Kuchai Jhalai and Pathartila villages under Goalbari Union of the upazila.

Local sources said 13 cows belonging to a tea worker family, which were grazing in a field, died on the spot after being struck by lightning. In a separate incident in the Pathartila area, a buffalo was also killed.

The sudden disaster has caused significant financial losses to the affected families, for whom the livestock were a primary source of income.

Local public representatives and residents have urged the government to provide assistance to the affected families.

Md Moin Uddin, member of Ward No. 2 of Goalbari Union Parishad, confirmed the matter around 3:30pm over mobile phone, saying immediate government support is needed for the distressed tea worker families.
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Lightning

Lightning strike kills young kayaker on Florida river


Adventure Magazine
Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:20 UTC
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An 18 year old kayaker has died after being struck by lightning while paddling with his father on a Florida river, in what authorities describe as a rare but tragic outdoor accident.

Michael Aidan Vargas was kayaking on the Blackwater River in Santa Rosa County, about 270 kilometres west of Tallahassee, when a lightning strike reportedly knocked him from his kayak and into the water.

Witnesses, including his father and employees from a nearby US Navy recreation programme, immediately began searching for the teenager after he disappeared beneath the surface.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was notified shortly after midday on Sunday and coordinated a large scale search involving multiple agencies, including specialist dive teams and rescue personnel. Vargas' body was later recovered from the river.
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Attention

VIDEO: Bear goes on rampage in Japan, injuring four people


Gulf Today
Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:18 UTC
A videograb shows a bear running after a person on the premises of Fukushima Steel Works in Japan.
A videograb shows a bear running after a person on the premises of Fukushima Steel Works in Japan.
A bear attack left four people injured in two factories and a residential area in northern Japan's Fukushima on Tuesday, police and media reports said.

A record 13 people were killed by bears in Japan last year, and there has been a jump in sightings as the animals emerge hungry from hibernation.

"A bear-related human injury incident... occurred in Fukushima City, injuring four people," the prefectural police said in a statement.

The bear was first spotted in a car parts factory, prompting an emergency call explaining that "employees had been bitten", the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported citing police and fire department officials.

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Attention

Record sargassum seaweed swamps Caribbean, US beaches

Jesse Ferrell
AccuWeather
Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:48 UTC
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Record amounts of sargassum seaweed are slowly moving west and north across the Atlantic Ocean, piling up on the shores of the Caribbean and United States.

Sargassum is a kind of seaweed, which is a type of algae. Sargassum never touches the seafloor until it dies. The algae tends to float in islandlike chunks and serves as breeding grounds for fish, turtles, birds and other animals.

Where is the seaweed now, and where will it go?

At the end of May, the largest concentration of the 28.9 million metric tons of sargassum was in the Atlantic east of the Leeward Islands, according to the latest sargassum outlook from the University of South Florida. Amounts in the Gulf, Caribbean, and East Atlantic set records for the month of May, while the West Atlantic and total Atlantic numbers were below records.

The USF Optical Oceanography Laboratory began tracking seaweed bloom conditions in 2011.

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Snowflake Cold

Best of the Web: Russia starts June cold, from Krasnodar to the Siberian Belt

Cap Allon
Electroverse.substack.com
Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:52 UTC
Summer hasn't started for everyone: where in Russia will frosts reach -5 and sleet fall?
© Legion-MediaSummer hasn't started for everyone: where in Russia will frosts reach -5 and sleet fall?
Russia, broadly, has opened June cold.

In the south, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, on the Sea of Azov, set a new daily minimum record on June 2. The temperature fell to 10.3C (50.5F), beating the previous June 2 record of 11.1C (52F), set in 1951.

It followed a sharp late-May chill across Krasnodar Krai.

On May 31, record lows were reported in Sochi, Tuapse, Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Krasnaya Polyana. Sochi fell to 8.6C (47.5F), beating a mark from 1904. Tuapse dropped to 9.6C (49.3F), undercutting its 1956 record. Krasnaya Polyana fell to 3C (37.4F).

Russian reports blamed prolonged rain, heavy cloud and, crucially, an intrusion of Arctic air. Snow fell in the mountains. Heavy rain hit the coast. The cold carried into June and is threatening to break further records along Russia's southern edge.
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