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Dead sardines
Dead sardines
Residents of Queule, Chile, are calling for government action after dead sardines are washed up on their river.
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Residents of Queule, Chile, are calling for government action after dead sardines are washed up on their river.
The homeowner at 4103 SW 5th Street was awakened by neighbors who noticed the sinkhole around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday when it began swallowing a hedge. By 7:00 a.m. the hole had expanded dramatically, even sucking down a tree.
Officials say it is about 40 feet deep and still expanding. The area around the sinkhole has been cordoned off.
Southwest 5th Street has been blocked off in the area.
The 12 sheep were in their farm in the Southern Saudi town of Bisha when they were struck by the bolt on Tuesday, Sabq Arabic language daily said.
"All the sheep were charred to death after the barn was struck by lightning in the farm," the paper said.
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Fuego volcano explosion observed from Acatenango
Fuego volcano explosion observed from Acatenango
It's not only the Santa Maria volcano, but also the Fuego volcano that shows an enhanced explosive activity in Guatemala these days .
According to Insivumeh, the National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology of Guatemala, the Fuego volcano heavily exploded four to 6 times on April 12, 2016 sending a column of ash 4800 meters above sea level.
Here a timelapse video showing the explosions:
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Researchers investigated the deaths of perinatal dolphins, like this one, found in regions affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Researchers investigated the deaths of perinatal dolphins, like this one, found in regions affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The study team evaluated 69 perinatal common bottlenose dolphins in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, the areas most affected by the spill, and 26 others found in areas unaffected by the spill. The work was conducted as part of an effort to investigate an "unusual mortality event" in the Gulf primarily involving bottlenose dolphins, beginning in early 2010 and continuing into 2014.
Scientists saw higher numbers of stranded perinatal dolphins in the spill zone in 2011 than in other years, particularly in Mississippi and Alabama, the researchers report. The young dolphins, which died in the womb or shortly after birth, "were significantly smaller than those that stranded during previous years and in other geographic locations," they wrote.
Horrific: These are four of the hail stones, the size of a baseball, which battered northern Texas on Monday
Footage shared by people in Dallas, Fort Worth, Wylie and Denton showed astonishing clumps of ice bigger than an adult hand that fell during one of the worst storms the region has seen in months.
It all appeared to come from an ominous-looking green shelf cloud, which shone a luminous glow over northern Texas.
The damage drove officials in Wylie, which is 10 miles east of Plano, to close all schools on Tuesday.
Damage: This house is one of many houses left completely shattered by the intense ice clumps
Dwarf sperm whale
The distressed mammal surfaced a few times on the beach on March 26, despite being pushed into the sea by rescuers, but washed ashore dead after midnight amid traumatic conditions. Discerning tourists and others alleged that the struggling animal was touched and pulled by the unruly crowd with bare hands, contrary to a set protocol to handle these marine mammals.
The rare sighting, the first recorded on Goa's shoreline, of this barely nine feet-long female mammal, as compared to other huge whale species, drew hordes of tourists and others.
Speculation was rife in some quarters that plastic possibly embedded in its entrails may have proved fatal. There have been a few cases of whales dying of plastic ingestion.
The dwarf sperm whale that washed ashore in Palolem on March 23 is the third confirmed case on India’s western coast.
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Local fishers hold a funeral ceremony for a dead whale in Nghe An Province on April 8, 2016.
Local fishers hold a funeral ceremony for a dead whale in Nghe An Province on April 8, 2016.
In the latest incident, on Monday afternoon, some tourists found the carcass of a whale on Cua Lo Beach.
The whale measured around one meter in length and 40 kilograms in weight. There were some wounds on its body.
Local fishers then held a ritual burial for the whale, which they considered sacred.
Three days earlier, a 44-year-old fisher also found a dead whale near the same beach. The whale was around 1.5 meter-long and weighed 80 kilograms.
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A stretch of National Highway near ISKCON temple wears a deserted look as Bhubaneswar registered a record temperature on Monday
A stretch of National Highway near ISKCON temple wears a deserted look as Bhubaneswar registered a record temperature on Monday
The city recorded the maximum temperature on Sunday which was the highest in Odisha and second highest in India. But beating its own record, city witnessed the highest ever maximum temperature on Monday evening at 45.8°C.
The all-time highest maximum temperature for Bhubaneswar stands at 45.0°C.
Heatwave is experienced when the maximum temperature over a place is above 40°C and five to six degrees above normal average temperatures.
While April is just half way through and temperatures are setting new records every other day, peak summer months may bring more harsh weather to several cities of East India.
Bhubaneswar has been witnessing a long dry spell since March 21, which has led to sharp rise in the mercury. Due to absence of any rain or cool winds, the temperatures has been on a higher side.
According to Skymet weather, the heat wave conditions in East India including Odisha and Jharkhand is likely to continue for another week.
Below is a map showing the location of the earthquake and additional information pertaining to the exact location of the epicenter.
Comment: Unusually harsh summer heat kills 66 in India's Telangana state