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Hundreds of dead fish found on the shore at Big Bear Lake, California


abc7.com
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:40 UTC
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© Colleen LeBeau
Hundreds of carp fish have washed ashore at Big Bear Lake
Officials in Big Bear are responding to concerns over hundreds of dead fish that are washing up on shore near the lake.

The photos were sent to Eyewitness News by Big Bear resident Colleen LeBeau. She said she has never seen anything like that in her 30 years of living in the area.

The dead fish are popping up at Stansfield Marsh, east of the lake, and it is apparently due to the drought. Water in the area has been receding over the years and the carps do not move toward the deeper parts of the lake. When the water recedes enough, the fish end up dying.

Crews have been working for the last two weeks to save as many of the fish as they can by catching them in nets and moving them into the deeper parts of the marsh. The dead schools of fish are not floating at Big Bear Lake, according to Dan McKernan, director of public relations and marketing for Big Bear.
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Sick pilot whale strands itself on beach in Nassau County, Florida

Chris Parenteau
news4jax.com
Wed, 27 May 2015 14:24 UTC
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The stranded short-finned pilot whale.
A 13-foot female short-finned pilot whale became stranded on the beach Wednesday at Fort Clinch State Park, in Nassau County, according to officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Onlookers rushed in to try to keep the whale alive, but wildlife officials said the whale was apparently sick and had to be taken to the Jacksonville Zoo to be euthanized.

Officials said dozens of people tried to keep water on the whale and had wet towels draped over it, trying to keep it cool. But officials said the whale's health was too compromised.

Volunteers helped move the whale onto a stretcher so it could be transported to the zoo. The whale, which weighed over 1,000 pounds, will have a necropsy and other tests done on it to determine what illness caused it to strand itself.
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Attention

8 pilot whales die and 11 strand on beach near Skye, Scotland

Chris Foote
news.stv.tv
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:07 UTC
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© Crown
Pilot whales: Mammals stranded on island near Skye.
Eight whales have died and 11 others are stuck on a beach after a mass stranding.

The pilot whales became trapped on the beach on the Isle of Skye at 4am on Tuesday.

Two of the 21 whales died before a British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) team were able to re-float them.

A pregnant female who was not expected to survive was euthanised after a local vet found her calf had died.

Shortly after their rescue, 16 whales re-stranded themselves on nearby Staffin Island. Five later died.
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School bus blown off road in June snowstorm, Norway

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:15 UTC
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The school bus at Haukelifjell blew right off the road
1 June 2015 - It's like full winter at Sognefjellet.

Thirty-nine people have been rescued and 17 cars are stuck in the snow.

A snow plow is on its way, but it is uncertain how long it will take to get to the vehicles.

Also, many people are without power due to falling trees.

Thanks to 996bip for this info

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© Webcam / Sognefjellhytta
Full snowstorm: several cars stuck at Sognefjellet.
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Snowflake

Late May snowfall hits Tianshan Mountain in Hami, China


english.sina.com
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 08:57 UTC
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© Photo/Xinhua
Tourists walk past snow covered yurts at a scenic spot in Hami, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, May 31, 2015. Hami witnessed a snowfall on Sunday.

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© Photo/Xinhua
Photo taken on May 31, 2015 shows Malan flower covered in snow on grassland in Hami, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

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© Photo/Xinhua
Tourists trek on snow-covered Tianshan Mountain in Hami, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, May 31, 2015.

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© Xinhua
A man makes snowballs on grassland in Hami, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, May 31, 2015.

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© Xinhua
Cows graze on the snow-covered grassland in Hami, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, May 31, 2015.
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A year after release 'Putin's tigers' are reported as thriving


wildlifeextra.com
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 08:42 UTC
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The Tiger with large striped cat
One year after five orphaned Siberian tigers were released in the Russian Far East the signs are four out of the five are doing well and have adapted successfully to life in the wild.

Thanks to four camera traps IFAW had donated to the Khingan Nature Reserve, there is now have footage of Ilona the tigress looking healthy and marking her territory.

Satellite tracking and camera trap videos show that the rehabilitated orphan tigress continues to thrive in the Russian forests near the Chinese border. By tracking her movements, scientists have learned that she is hunting wolves, deer and wild boar.

"Success stories like Ilona are helping to change the opinion and policy of officials in the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources," said Maria Vorontsova, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Russia director. "There was a general belief that it was impossible to rehabilitate and return orphan tiger cubs back to the wild. IFAW and our partner groups have now proven that it is indeed possible."

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Bizarro Earth

Swarm of 7 earthquakes hit off Oregon coast

Kohr Harlan
KOIN 6
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:46 UTC
USGS monitoring station
© KOIN
The wall of earthquake monitors at the USGS monitoring station in Vancouver, June 1, 2015
A series of earthquakes struck off the Oregon coast early Monday, but scientists said they weren't strong enough to trigger tsunamis.

The first came at magnitude 5.8. It struck about midnight Sunday and was followed by three quakes early Monday. They were of magnitude 4.3, 5 and 4.4. A fifth struck around 1:13 p.m. and registered at a 5.9 magnitude.

At 7:50 p.m., a 3.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the Oregon coast. Then at 8:11 p.m., a 4.2 magnitude trembler was felt.

A ground motion sensor near Mt. Hood picked up all of the ocean quake activity, highlighted by red indicators on screens at the U.S. Geological Survey offices in Vancouver.

They struck at a fault nearly 300 miles west of Coos Bay, Oregon. They were relatively shallow, at 6 miles deep.

KOIN 6 News wanted to know if these quakes could mean we're closer to a big offshore quake, like the one that rattled the region more than 300 years ago.

"These earthquakes are happening in a totally different part of the system and aren't really relevant in a physical way," USGS seismologist Seth Moran said.

According to Moran, Monday's quakes are on a fault line farther out to sea than the much more dangerous fault line right off the Oregon coast. That closer fault line — the Cascadia-Subduction Zone — has caused huge quakes in the past and is currently building up pressure.
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Windsock

Cyclone caused passenger ship carrying 450 people to sink abruptly in Chinese river


RT
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:17 UTC
Cyclone causes ship to sink on Yangtze River
© Reuters / Chen Zhuo
Rescue workers are seen near the site where a ship sank, in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River, Hubei province, China, June 2, 2015.
A ship carrying more than 400 people and some 50 crew members from the eastern Chinese Jiangsu province to the southwestern city of Chongqing has sunk in the Yangtze River, according to local officials. Only 13 people are said to have been rescued so far.

The vessel sank Monday night in the Jianli County, Hubei Province, according to the Yangtze River Navigation Administration cited by Xinhua. The ship, named Dongfangzhixing (Eastern Star), was heading to Chongqing from the city of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province.


The boat was carrying 405 passengers, five travel agency workers and 47 crew members at the time of the accident, the agency reported.According to CCTV, the captain and chief engineer of the ship are now in police custody.

Rescue operations began during the night. Five individuals, whose bodies were recovered, have been confirmed dead. The Ministry of Transport said 13 people have been saved so far.Among the survivors in Jianli, Hubei, is an 85-year-old woman.



According to Dongfangzhixing's captain and chief engineer, who were among the rescued, the ship abruptly sank after being hit by a cyclone. Both have been detained by police for questioning, Xinhua news agency reported.

Strong wind and heavy rain are still hampering the rescue work.
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Bizarro Earth

Dunedin, New Zealand jolted by strongest quake in 41 years

Susan Strongman
The New Zealand Herald
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 23:17 UTC
Dunedin Quake
© Thinkstock
The quake was 7km deep.
The 4.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked parts of Otago last night was believed to be the strongest experienced in the region since 1974.

It struck at 11.17pm at a depth of 7km, centred 2km northeast of Lee Stream, some 30km west of Dunedin.

The quake was felt in various parts of Otago, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.

Adrian Bardrick, publican at the Clarks Junction Hotel, on State Highway 87, only about 12km from the epicentre, said they received a pretty good "sort of thump".

It rattled the bottles, he said.

"But there was no damage."

The hotel was cleaning up after a good evening.

"The Strath Taieri boys had beaten the West Taieri boys" in rugby and had called in on their way home.

They had left by the time of the quake.

The largest quake significantly affecting Dunedin in the past several decades was on April 9, 1974. It was magnitude 5 and dislodged grocery stock and damaged some chimneys.

The quake on October 16 last year was magnitude 4.1 at a depth of 4km and in almost the same place as last night's shake.

Police early this morning received several calls but no reports of damage.
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Attention

Lion leaps through open car window and mauls tourist in South African game park


The Raw Story
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 17:30 UTC
lion mauls tourist
© AFP Photo/Stephane de Sakutin)
The incident occured at the The Lion Park, on the outskirts of Johannesburg
A lion leapt through a open car window and mauled to death an American tourist at a privately-run game park just outside Johannesburg on Monday, a park official said.

"There was a car driving to the lion camp and the lion did come through the window and bite the lady," Scott Simpson, operations manager of The Lion Park venue told Talk Radio 702.

"The ambulance arrived quite soon, but the lady had passed away."

Comment: American woman killed by lion in S. Africa identified as 'Game of Thrones' editor

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