Earth Changes

Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes north of Ascension Island

Sputnik News
Fri, 18 Aug 2017 04:44 UTC

A powerful magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Friday north of an isolated Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, the US Geological Survey said.

The shallow 6.2-mile-deep quake near the volcanic island was reported at 2:59 a.m. UTC.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said there was no tsunami danger for the US east coast, the Gulf of Mexico states or the eastern coast of Canada based on the quake's location.

The Arctic Sees an Early Winter - 33% Above Normal Ice Observed in Greenland

Tony Heller
The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:00 UTC

The New York Times Lies

Winter has arrived about 10 days early in the Arctic, and Greenland's surface has gained 500 billion tons of ice - about 33% above normal.

Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI

Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI

Minke whale found dead in Blue Hill Bay, Maine

Henry Schulz
Mount Desert Islander
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:03 UTC

© Henry Schulz
Area whale experts at a property in Tremont prepare to perform a necropsy on a minke whale found dead in Blue Hill Bay on Sunday

The stench of a decomposing minke whale assailed the nostrils of a crew working on a necropsy here Tuesday. The whale had been found floating dead in Blue Hill Bay on Sunday. It was not the same individual freed from entanglement with fishing gear a week before, researchers with Allied Whale at College of the Atlantic confirmed.

"We got a picture of the dorsal fins for both and went to the office yesterday and confirmed it wasn't the same," said Emma Ober of Allied Whale.

The whale was brought to the home of Dan DenDanto, a research associate for Allied Whale, for a necropsy. The COA research vessel Osprey towed the carcass to the Seal Cove docks Monday, where it was transferred to a trailer for transport to DenDanto's yard.

Volunteers made precise incisions in order to search for the cause of the animal's death. Oil flowed out of the minke whale's blubber like olive oil being poured into a sink. "The oil coming out is due to the internal pressure, and when cuts are made, it relieves the pressure, and that's why the oil flows out like that," DenDanto said.

'It's very alarming': Another dead North Atlantic right whale discovered off Cape Cod; total now 13

Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon
CBC News
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:51 UTC

The dead whale has been identified as a reproductive female named Couplet, pictured here in 2003 with one of her calves.

© M. Zani/New England Aquarium
The dead whale has been identified as a reproductive female named Couplet, pictured here in 2003 with one of her calves.

Another dead North Atlantic right whale has been spotted off Massachusetts, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths in North America this summer to at least 13.

The U.S. Coast Guard documented and reported the latest carcass on Monday, Jennifer Goebel, public affairs officer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Greater Atlantic region, confirmed on Wednesday.

The dead whale is currently floating in the southern Gulf of Maine, about 160 miles (about 258 kilometres) east of Cape Cod, she told CBC News.

This is the third dead North Atlantic right whale discovered in U.S. waters, said Goebel. The news comes just one week after another whale was found floating off Martha's Vineyard, the Massachusetts island south of Cape Cod.

Between 10 and 12 dead whales have been found in the Gulf of St. Lawrence since June 7. Preliminary necropsy reports suggest ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements as possible causes for the deaths. A final report is expected by mid-September, and will be made public.

Only about 500 North Atlantic right whales are left in the world, according to fisheries officials.

Flood kills at least 57 in Bangladesh with over 3,326,000 affected

Abu Siddique
Dhaka Tribune
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:39 UTC

Desperate for help, a group of women and children at Hotathpara village in Fulchhari upazila, Gaibandha wade through chest-high water to get to relief workers on August 16, 2017.

© Focus Bangla
Desperate for help, a group of women and children at Hotathpara village in Fulchhari upazila, Gaibandha wade through chest-high water to get to relief workers on August 16, 2017.

Around 3,326,864 people in 22 districts have been severely affected by the latest bout of flood that hit last week, their houses and croplands inundated

At least 57 people have died in 13 districts, as of 6pm on Wednesday, due to the monsoon flood that is currently plaguing the country's northern and northeastern regions, according to disaster management officials.

The highest number of deaths occurred in Dinajpur, where 23 people have died, while Kurigram has the second highest death toll - nine.

Some of the victims were swept away by floodwater, some died from snake bites and lightning and others were crushed when walls collapsed on them, said the officials.

Rotten tomatoes: The real reasons Al Gore's new film "Truth to Power" flopped

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:34 UTC

Al Gores new Inconvenient Truth squeal Truth to Power, flopped at the box office because temperatures are now lower than when he won the Nobel Peach Prize, its snowing in Wyoming, its snowing in Colorado in July and August, record cold start to Britain's summer holidays in over 35 years, Denmark has had no summer which takes it back 38 years to find those temperatures, Australia broke a plethora of winter low temperature records and snowfall records and there is more sea ice now that 1972.

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Death toll from floods in Nepal climbs to 120 with about 6 million people affected

Firstpost
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:27 UTC

Nepali residents help each other cross a flooded road at Birgunj Parsa district

The death toll from widespread flooding and landslides in Nepal on Tuesday climbed to 120 with nearly 35 people still unaccounted for and over six million affected by incessant rainfall across the Himalayan country.

Most of the displaced, living in temporary shelters for the past three days, were yet to receive relief supplies in the flood-hit interior areas, the Kathmandu Post reported.

More than 2,800 houses have been completely destroyed.

Normal life in parts of Nepal has been hit and a large number of people have been displaced due to flooding and landslides.

Authorities recovered seven bodies from the "no man's land" near the flood-hit Biratnagar - Jogbani border with India today and the death toll has hit 120, Home Ministry sources said.

Dead minke whale discovered off coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island

Michelle San Miguel
turnto10.com
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:06 UTC

The carcass of a minke whale was found off Narragansett, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017.

Environmental officials are trying to remove a dead whale off the Narragansett coast.

The carcass of a minke whale was first spotted on Monday near Hazard Rock.

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management is waiting for the high surf brought on by Hurricane Gert to subside before officials try to retrieve the carcass.

The whale is floating within a fishing trap. Sarah Callan, assistant stranding coordinator at Mystic Aquarium, said DEM told her that it is a legal, stationary fishing trap.

Ten spacecraft hit by massive solar flare, says ESA

RT
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 20:14 UTC

powerful solar eruption captured by SOHO

The European Space Agency revealed that 10 satellites and probes were rocked by a massive solar flare as it swept through the solar system.

The space weather event, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), was observed by three satellites operating outside the path of the flare, namely ESA's Proba-2, the ESA-NASA joint project SOHO and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, in October 2014.

The ESA's Olivier Witasse had been leading the space agency's Mars Express, a project examining the effect of the comet Siding Spring on the atmosphere of the Red Planet. During the research, the team detected signs of the CME on Mars and, in the subsequent investigation, accessed data collected by the 10 spacecraft in its path.

"CME speeds with distance from the sun is not well understood, in particular in the outer Solar System,"said Witasse. "Thanks to the precise timings of numerous in situ measurements, we can better understand the process."

Assam floods: Death toll increases by 39 in third wave; 123 killed to date with over 3,345,000 affected

Firstpost
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:55 UTC

The flood situation in Assam continued to deteriorate with 11 more lives lost on Wednesday. Around 33.45 *lakh people in 24 districts of the state remained affected due to the flood.

With the deaths reported on Wednesday, the toll in the third wave of floods has gone up to 39 in the north-eastern state. The floods have claimed 123 lives so far this year in Assam, including eight in Guwahati.

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal left for Delhi on Wednesday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and apprise him of the preliminary damage caused by the third wave of floods.

According to a report by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), three persons died in Bongaigaon, two each in Dhubri, Nalbari, and Morigaon in flood-related incidents.

New Lt. Governor of Virginia Winsome Sears: "We're going to have safer neighborhoods, safer communities, and our children are going to get a good...

parzival

Bill Gates is going to be the one with the uncertain future,,, * New Lt. Governor of Virginia Winsome Sears: "We're going to have safer...

parzival

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sass

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Earth Changes

Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes north of Ascension Island

The Arctic Sees an Early Winter - 33% Above Normal Ice Observed in Greenland

Minke whale found dead in Blue Hill Bay, Maine

'It's very alarming': Another dead North Atlantic right whale discovered off Cape Cod; total now 13

Flood kills at least 57 in Bangladesh with over 3,326,000 affected

Rotten tomatoes: The real reasons Al Gore's new film "Truth to Power" flopped

Death toll from floods in Nepal climbs to 120 with about 6 million people affected

Dead minke whale discovered off coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island

Ten spacecraft hit by massive solar flare, says ESA

Assam floods: Death toll increases by 39 in third wave; 123 killed to date with over 3,345,000 affected

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