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Bryde's whale carcass discovered on beach in Phuket, Thailand

DEAD WHALE
A Bryde's whale carcass has been found on a beach in Phuket province. It is believed that the mammal died of sickness.

Marine biologists from the Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Institute inspected the carcass found on Phuket beach in front of Trisara Phuket Hotel. According to their preliminary inspection, the 18-meter-long whale was around 15 years old and had been dead for more than 4 weeks before it washed ashore.

The marine biologists indicated that the Bryde's whale, whose sex remains unclear, could have been killed by an infection. The carcass will be taken to Layan National Park where it will be buried.

Bryde's whales are the largest mammals in Thailand. An adult Bryde's whale could weigh up to 20 tons and grow to lengths of up to 15 meters long.

It is reported that there are around 50 Bryde's whales in the Gulf of Thailand.

Source: National News Bureau of Thailand

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Dead humpback whale calf found on beach in Queensland, Australia

There have been more whale sightings this season than usual.

There have been more whale sightings this season than usual.
It's the sight no whale-watcher wants to see -with a beautiful baby humpback whale washing ashore and dying during the night.

But ironically, according to a popular Cooloola Coast tourism operator - it's a sign that things are steadily improving for the once seriously endangered species.

"Yeah it wasn't too good to see unfortunately," Tyron Van Santen from Rainbow Beach's Epic Ocean Adventures says of the calf's discovery on Teewah Beach yesterday.

"A couple of our team members saw it when they were making the trip from Noosa to Rainbow."

Cloud Lightning

Man killed by lightning bolt in Midland, Texas

LIGHTNING
A man died Monday night after being struck by lightning in Texas, police said.

Emergency crews received a call about the lightning strike hitting a person around 6:15 p.m. at Maple Avenue Monday, Midland police spokeswoman Rachel Walker told KWES. When they arrived, they found an unresponsive man.

The man was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, KWES reported.

Authorities did not release the man's name or the circumstances surrounding the incident.

Midland is a small city in west Texas on Interstate 20.

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Noctilucent clouds captured over northeast UK

Newcastle noctilucent clouds
© David Whinham
Newcastle
They glow in the dead of the night when everything should be dark.

And this weekend the region got a spectacular, if slightly eerie view of them.

Noctilucent clouds (the Latin name that basically translates to 'night shining') are a strange phenomena in the upper atmosphere.

You can only see them during the summer.

They are formed from small ice crystals so high up that they are still catching the sun even though, for those of us on the ground, it has set.

Comment: NASA blowing meteor smoke as noctilucent clouds intensify


Seismograph

Earthquake recorded off Shetland was largest in UK for nine years

Lerwick earthquake

The epicentre was around 131 miles south-east of Lerwick and happened at 1.33pm on Friday.
A large earthquake that struck in the sea off Shetland at the weekend was the largest recorded in the UK for nine years.

The British Geological Survey said it was felt by more than 30 people more than 130 miles away from the epicentre.

The 4.4 magnitude tremor has now been upgraded to 4.7 following further analysis on the quake.

It was recorded in the northern North Sea, and the largest since a 5.2 tremor on land at Market Rasen, Lincolnshire in 2008.


The epicentre was around 131 miles south-east of Lerwick and happened at 1.33pm on Friday.

BGS seismologist Davie Galloway was in Shetland at the time and said "at least" 20 people there said they had felt it.

He said the epicentre was approximately 62 miles south-west of a magnitude 5.7 event in the Viking Graben in 1927.

The quake was felt in Lerwick and Sumburgh on Shetland; Kirkwall and Sanday in Orkney; in Wick and Thurso in Caithness and even Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire.

One resident of Kirkwall, Orkney, said: "Very brief vibration of whole building. I am on the second upper floor."

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Flooded fields, frost and frozen corn affecting farmers across USA

US corn losses
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
The agriculture community chat boards and twitter feeds are loaded with images and amazement of frozen solid corn on the stalks, frost on corn, flooded fields, mega drought and horrendous conditions for growing this year. The IPCC models surely cannot say they predicted state wide swaths of deadly frosts across the grain belts of the USA the last week of June and first week of July. I wonder how the CO2 global warming crowd will try to spin this event.


Comment: 2017: The year that food becomes an investment - Prepare for a food crisis now


Airplane

Pilot talks about 'weather phenomenon,' then plane drops off radar, killing 6 in Wisconsin

Price County Plane crash
© Unknown
National Transportation Safety Board investigators said Sunday there was a discussion between the pilot of a Cessna airplane and air traffic controllers about "local weather phenomenon." Soon after, the aircraft dropped off radar and crashed, killing six.

"We're dealing with things that people just don't want to talk about or see," Price County Sheriff Brian Schmidt told local media.

The Price County Sheriff's Office said the airplane crashed at 3:21 a.m. CT Saturday near the north Wisconsin city of Phillips. The plane was found near State Highway 111 and U.S. Highway 8 in the town of Harmony.

Authorities did not release how many people died in the crash until Sunday.

Comment: According to a WSAW reporter, the plane might have broken up in the air.


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Man attacked by grizzly bear near Water Valley, Alberta

Bear attack
A geocaching enthusiast managed to fight off a grizzly bear that tried to drag him into the bush near Water Valley on Sunday, before driving himself into town for help.

Paramedics were called to the hamlet some 80 kilometres northwest of Calgary about 12:45 p.m. and found a man in his 50s suffering from serious soft-tissue injuries throughout his body.

Didsbury RCMP said the man was geocaching — a treasure-hunting hobby using GPS co-ordinates — in the Harold Creek area west of the town when he was attacked by the bear.

A brief struggle ensued between the unidentified man and the bear, which attempted to drag him into the bush. He was eventually able to escape in his vehicle and drove himself into Water Valley.

Airplane

Huge contrail of Boeing 787 filmed over Russia (VIDEO)

Huge contrail over Russia
© NewsFlare
The amazing video, filmed from another plane, shows the contrail forming 33,000 feet in the air.
This incredible footage shows a Boeing 787 Dreamliner create a giant cloud of vapour trail as it soars through the skies over Russia.

The amazing video, filmed from another plane, shows the contrail forming 33,000 feet in the air.

The passenger who shot the video wrote online: 'This contrail looks dark against the rising sun.'

Vapour trails occur when areas of low pressure form around the edge of the wing, creating vortices - tubes of circulating air - that leave trails behind the wing's tips.

The low pressure in these areas mean that cold air can condense, leaving spectacular trails of water or even ice behind the plane.


Comment: Further evidence of our changing atmosphere? See also: For articles on so-called 'chemtrails' see:


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Strong earthquake swarm at Bárðarbunga volcano in Iceland (30-June-2017)

Bárðarbunga

Bárðarbunga volcano
Today (30-June-2017) a strong earthquake swarm took place in Bárðarbunga volcano. This earthquake swarm was in the north-east area of the Bárðarbunga volcano caldera, area that has showed the most earthquake activity since this started in September-2015. Why that is the case is unclear at the moment.

Strongest earthquake in this swarm had the magnitude of 3,6 but other earthquakes where smaller, one earthquake with magnitude 3,4 and one earthquake with magnitude 3,1. All other earthquakes where smaller in magnitude. This earthquake swarm seems to be over for now, but one new earthquake took place at 22:29 and had the early magnitude of 2,7 (or 2,8).