From the "global warming and ocean acidification will kill everything, forever" and the "nature always finds a way" department comes this inconvenient truth.
Back From The Dead: Giant Coral Reef That 'Died' In 2003 Teeming With Life Again
In 2003, researchers declared Coral Castles dead.
On the floor of a remote island lagoon halfway between Hawaii and Fiji, the giant reef site had been devastated by unusually warm water. Its remains looked like a pile of drab dinner plates tossed into the sea. Research dives in 2009 and 2012 had shown little improvement in the coral colonies.
A firefighter battling a Colorado wildfire captured footage of a wind-fueled firenado spinning a column of flames into the sky.
The firenado, also known as a fire tornado or fire whirl, was photographed Sunday by Charles "Trey" Bolt of the Beaver Creek Fire Department Engine 1419.
The department posted the photo to Facebook and later followed up with Bolt's video of the spinning column of flames.
"One of our firefighters captured this fire whirl yesterday on the #BeaverCreekFire. Wow!" the post said.
The Beaver Creek Fire has burned through nearly 57 square miles since it began June 19. The fire is 44 percent contained, firefighters said.
The unusual phenomenon was caught on video just days after firefighters in Oregon captured footage of a similar firenado swirling on the border of the town of Cornelius.
It didn't look real, at first, when Jonathan White glanced at the marsh bank as he paddled out of Shem Creek. Then he realized the manatee was dead.
The carcass of the large sea mammal was found Tuesday and recovered Wednesday by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. A necropsy was underway.
White, of Oakmont, Pa., and others who saw it thought it might have been struck by a boat. An adult manatee has few if any natural predators.
"It was sad," he said. "They'd never hurt anything."
But no sign of a strike was found.
"The results were inconclusive, except to note an acute cause of death," said Erin Weeks, DNR spokeswoman. "There were no obvious propeller wounds or broken ribs, but the animal had been healthy and feeding full of plant material up until its death." The manatee a young male, 9½ feet long, she said.
Matthew Weaver The Guardian Fri, 19 Aug 2016 10:01 UTC
A three-year-old boy has died after being mauled by a dog in Essex, the second fatal dog attack in four days.
The latest incident happened at a property in a residential street in Halstead at 5.40pm on Thursday.
A 29-year-old woman was arrested for allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control and injuring a person, Essex police said. The dog was seized by police and placed in kennels. Police said they had yet to establish its breed. Two officers were guarding the owner's home in Parker Way, Halstead.
The Blue Cut wildfire in Southern California, which has destroyed homes and forced evacuations, has spread to over 31,000 acres today.
Cal Fire Battalion Chief Mike Mohler told ABC News today, "Explosive fires are the new normal. ... I've never seen in 22 years fire activity like that."
"The containment is going to be very slow," he said. "We still have a long fight ahead of us."
More than 1,500 personnel are at the scene today. The blaze is just 4 percent contained.
Officials said the fire, named after the Blue Cut hiking trail, began Tuesday morning for unknown reasons. It quickly grew to nearly 30,000 acres by Wednesday.
"It was such a large flame front and it came so fast and so hard that firefighters did all they could to basically get people out of the way of this advancing front," San Bernardino County Fire Chief Mark Hartwig told ABC News this morning.
The dog has reportedly been put down after the incident occurred at the weekend in Oudtshoorn.
A four-year-old boy has died after being attacked by the family dog in Oudtshoorn.
The incident occurred at the weekend.
The police's Malcolm Poje says the child died in hospital.
"I can confirm that we've opened an inquest docket pertaining to the incident in Oudtshoorn, where a young child was apparently attacked by a dog. He was taken to hospital with multiple injuries to his face and head. He had unfortunately succumbed to his injuries."
Craig Huber fox5vegas.com Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:18 UTC
Las Vegas Metro police reported a child was pronounced dead on Wednesday after being attacked by a dog.
Metro's Lt. Timothy Hatchet said the attack occurred before 3:30 p.m. in the 6000 block of Duck Hills Springs Drive, near East Desert Inn Road.
Hatchet said the child was visiting a friend's house when the dog, a pit bull, attacked. The child was taken to Sunrise Hospital Trauma, where he or she was later pronounced dead.
Metro detectives were investigating the attack Wednesday night, and the dog was taken by animal control officers.
An Alaska wilderness guide used his 9mm handgun to save a husband and wife from a bear attack during a fishing trip last week.
Phil Shoemaker, a guide for over 33 years, was accompanying the couple on a fishing trip to a small stream deep in the wilderness when they startled a brown bear. He wrote in American Hunter that he decided to bring a 9mm pistol with him for protection since he knew bears might be in the area.
"Larry and his wife were fishing with me, and because we were going to a small stream I had fished before, which had numerous large male brown bears, I decided to take my Smith & Wesson 3953 DAO 9mm, rather than the S&W 629 .44 Mag. Mountain Gun I have carried for the past 25 years, as the larger boars are usually less of a problem than sows with cubs," Shoemaker said.
Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.
- Frantz Fanon
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