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Food bills set to rise as drought threatens to wipe out UK crops: Farmers warn lack of rain is hitting barley, wheat and sugar beet

Colin Fernandez
Daily Mail
Tue, 09 May 2017 09:05 UTC
Bone-dry conditions are wiping out crops which could hit shoppers with higher food prices, farmers have warned. Spring crops of barley, wheat and sugar beet are all suffering damage from a lack of water after driest winter in two decades

Bone-dry conditions are wiping out crops which could hit shoppers with higher food prices, farmers have warned. Spring crops of barley, wheat and sugar beet are all suffering damage from a lack of water after driest winter in two decades
Bone-dry conditions are wiping out crops which could hit shoppers with higher food prices, farmers have warned.

In the latest stark warning, farmers have said that spring crops of barley, wheat and sugar beet are all suffering damage from a lack of water.

If the dry conditions continue over the coming month, shoppers could be facing higher food bills, according to the National Farmers Union.

Yesterday the Daily Mail revealed more than four fifths of the country's rivers are running drier than their long term average, following the driest winter in the past two decades.

The latest warning comes as:
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Seismograph

Shallow 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes off Japan's southern coast


Astro Awani
Tue, 09 May 2017 05:05 UTC
earthquake generic
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 struck off the coast of Miyakejima island in Japan''s southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on Tuesday, the weather agency here said, although no tsunami warning has been issued, China''s Xinhua news agency reported.

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the quake struck at 10:54 local time at a latitude of 25.2 degrees north and longitude of 126.5 degrees east. The quake originated at a depth of 10 km, the agency said.

The temblor registered 3 on Japan''s seismic scale which peaks at 7 in areas in and around Miyakejima island, and also logged 2 on the scale in areas including Tarama and Ishigaki.

The weather agency said, "Although there may be slight sea-level changes in coastal regions, this earthquake has caused no damage to Japan."

Local media or first responders in the region have yet to report any accidents or injury as a result of this offshore quake.
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Ice Cube

Strong spring storm drops baseball-sized hail in Denver


Charlotte Observer
Mon, 08 May 2017 18:00 UTC
Giant hail in Denver
© YouTube/Associated Press (screen capture)
A strong spring storm dropped a blanket of hail throughout much of Denver and prompted severe thunderstorm warnings across the Eastern Plains.

The National Weather Service warned of large hail and possible wind gusts of up to 70 mph (112 kph) along the Front Range on Monday afternoon. The storm moved quickly through downtown Denver, creating rivers of hail and a layer of ice on Coors Field ahead of a Colorado Rockies baseball game.

National Weather Service meteorologist Kyle Fredin says baseball-sized hail fell in the western Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge. He says "you gotta assume there's gonna be a lot" of damage from the storm, which is headed north of Denver at about 25 mph (40 kph).

Tornados are possible in the eastern part of the state through Monday.

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Fire

Monster wildfire displaces thousands in Georgia


Sputnik
Mon, 08 May 2017 20:42 UTC
Georgia wildfire
© AP Photo/ Ben Palm/Okefenokee National Wildlife Refugee
A blaze has ripped through the US state of Georgia, forcing residents from their land.

At least 130,000 acres on the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge have been decimated by the fire — and there's little hope the blaze will be contained any time soon. The wildfire started April 6.

"Anything that can burn will burn if a hot ember falls," park officials and firefighters said.

Comment: Florida on fire: 125 active blazes, 'Worst wildfire season'

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Attention

Wild elephant kills two in Karnataka, India


The Economic Times
Mon, 08 May 2017 20:11 UTC
Charging elephant
© Getty
Charging elephant
A wild elephant trampled two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans, including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI), to death at the CRPF training camp in Kaggalipura forest range, off Kanakapura Road on Sunday morning.

The deceased have been identified as ASI H Dakshina Murthy (55), hailing from Vellore, Tamil Nadu and constable Puttappa Lamani (35) from Haveri district. Kaggalipura Police said the incident took place around 5.30 am when the duo was walking near the CRPF training centre which also houses a dog training camp.The camp is near the Bannerghatta forest area.

Police said there are seven posts around the camp, with four jawans deployed in each of them.

Comment: Elsewhere on the subcontinent in the last few days: Wild elephant kills two people in Bhagalpur

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Ice Cube

Britain: Upcoming little ice age predicates River Thames freezes over by 2019, could kill millions

Joshua Nevett
Daily Star
Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00 UTC
Frozen Thames
© Getty Images
The freezing over of the River Thames, London, 1895
A global cool down will "march in with vengeance" to usher in a 100-year mini-ice age that could freeze over the River Thames, climate scientists told Daily Star Online.

Experts told Daily Star Online planet Earth is on course for a "Little Age Ice" within the next three years thanks to a cocktail of climate change and low solar activity. Research shows a natural cooling cycle that occurs every 230 years began in 2014 and will send temperatures plummeting even further by 2019.

Scientists are also expecting a "huge reduction" in solar activity for 33 years between 2020 and 2053 that will cause thermometers to crash. Both cycles suggest Earth is entering a global cooling cycle that could have devastating consequences for global economy, human life and society as we know it.

If predictions of the world-wide big freeze come true, the plot to 2004 film "The Day After Tomorrow" would not be far from reality during winter. Millions of lives would be at risk of prolonged blackouts, food and electricity shortages and cold-related health problems.

Comment: The lead argument has evidential and historical validity and its predictions are prudent. Notably the final conclusion, of both the Met Office and Potsdam Institute on Climate Change Research, substantiates, qualifies and quantifies the results according to an unshakable belief in a proven-to-be bogus premise. However, when you factor in the increases in cosmic dust, volcanic dust, earthquake activity, weather pattern changes combined with a long-lasting solar minimum...it is complete idiocy to think all of these are not related, nor will have significant impact on the temperature and climate of Earth.

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Cow

Third time cattle futures halted as prices rise to daily limit, supermarket prices up and up

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Mon, 08 May 2017 19:34 UTC
Livestock lost in storm in Baca County, Colo.
© Julie Chritiansen Tate
Livestock lost in storm in Baca County, Colo.
The third day that cattle futures rose so fast they halted trading, this has never happened before, it is indeed a first. There is a small pullback after the frenzy for now, but what it means is skyrocketing beef prices for the average consumer purchasing from the supermarket. Also what was not discussed in the news were the massive snow dumps that literally drowned cows, suffocating them as the snows came don so fast. Kenya experienced a once in a 1000 year flood which 18,000 cattle and goats were washed away.


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Bizarro Earth

Strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes near Tanaga Volcano, Alaska


SF Gate
Mon, 08 May 2017 18:48 UTC
Tanaga Earthquake
© USGS
The United States Geological Survey reports a preliminary magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near Tanaga Volcano, Alaska on Monday.

The quake hit at 7:00 AM local time at a depth of 10 kilometers.

There was no initial word on damage or injury resulting from the quake. More information on this earthquake is available on the USGS event page.

See the latest USGS quake alerts, report feeling earthquake activity and tour interactive fault maps in the earthquake section.
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Bizarro Earth

Irish beach washed away by storms over 30 years ago suddenly returns after freak tide

Henry McDonald
The Guardian
Mon, 08 May 2017 10:13 UTC
Dooagh beach Achill Island

Dooagh beach, Achill Island, now
An Irish beach that disappeared more than 30 years ago has returned to an island off the County Mayo coast.

The sand at Dooagh, Achill Island, was washed away by storms in 1984, leaving only rocks and rock pools.

But after a freak tide around Easter this year, hundreds of tonnes of sand were deposited around the area where the beach once stood, recreating the old 300-metre stretch of golden sand.
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Red Flag

Researchers find first known evidence of deer scavenging on bones of human corpse


Sputnik
Mon, 08 May 2017 17:58 UTC
deer
© CC0 / Pixabay
The first known evidence of deer scavenging the bones of a human corpse has been uncovered.

The chilling discovery was made when researchers at the 26-acre Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF) in San Marcos, Texas, were conducting an equally grisly experiment. Seemingly monstrous things often must be done in the name of forensic science — in order to optimize crime-solving and corpse identification techniques, dead bodies are often subjected to violent attacks, left in controlled conditions to rot, and other morbid applications.

​The FARF center is specifically devoted to the study of decayed human remains. In July 2014, staff left a body in a wooded part of FARF, in order to see how different scavenging animals left their mark on human remains.

A motion-sensitive camera was set up nearby to see what stopped by to chow down on the body. Animals such as foxes, turkey vultures, raccoons, coyotes, and other local residents are known to be partial to dead human flesh, but the experiment demonstrated an entirely new critter has a penchant for mankind meat.
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