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'Jungle-like' heat, humidity continue in Manitoba, Canada


CBC
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:40 UTC
Southern and central Manitoba are in the grips of the second heat wave in as many weeks, with temperatures in the high 30s and humidex advisories across the regions.

Temperatures were forecast to reach as high as 38 C in Manitoba Monday, with humidex values in the mid-40s.
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Cloud Lightning

Southern New Zealand suffers floods and land slips

Cassandra Pokoney
The Southland Times
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:06 UTC
More than a month's worth of rain has fallen on Stewart Island in the past five days, causing flooding and widespread slips which have left some residents with no access to their homes.

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Motorists drive through floodwater on State Highway 1 in southern New Zealand.



MetService readings show a record 177mm has pelted the island at the South West Cape since Wednesday, while further north in Oban, 118mm has fallen.

High winds and heavy seas also played havoc, pulling roads into the sea and causing landslips 30m wide.
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Cloud Lightning

Typhoon Usagi heads for Japan, high waves forecast


Reuters
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:45 UTC
A strong typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean headed toward Japan on Tuesday and officials said the storm was likely to strike the country's southernmost island later in the week.

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Typhoon Usagi - 31 Jul, 20:46 GMT

Typhoon Usagi, which means "rabbit" in Japanese, was 1,000 kilometres south of Japan and was moving north northwest at 15 kilometres an hour, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.
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US: Gulf 'Dead Zone' Still 3rd Largest


Associated Press
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:06 UTC
The oxygen-poor "dead zone" off the Louisiana and Texas coasts isn't quite as big as predicted this year, but it is still the third-largest ever mapped, a scientist said Saturday.

Crabs, eels and other creatures usually found on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico are swimming in crowds on the surface because there is too little oxygen in their usual habitat, said Nancy Rabalais, chief scientist for northern Gulf hypoxia studies.

"We very often see swarms of crabs, mostly blue crabs and their close relatives, swimming at the surface when the oxygen is low," she wrote in an e-mail from a research ship as it returned to Cocodrie from its annual measurement trip.
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Attention

Thousands flee fires in Spain's Canary Island


AFP
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:35 UTC
Wildfires sweeping across Spain's Canary Islands have forced authorities to evacuate around 11 000 people in the biggest fires on the archipelago in a decade, the head of the regional government said on Tuesday.

The fires, which broke out on Friday, have covered 24 000 hectares on two of the archipelago's seven islands - Gran Canaria and Tenerife - after being fanned by strong winds, Paulino Rivero said.
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Bizarro Earth

8 million year old cypress trees found preserved in Hungary


Reuters
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:16 UTC
Hungarian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered a group of fossilized swamp cypress trees preserved from 8 million years ago which could provide clues about the climate of pre-historic times.

Comment: The unstated fact here is that the trees must have been covered rapidly in order to preserve them in such a manner, another example of rapid, perhaps catastrophic climate change.

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Cloud Lightning

Tropical Storm Chantal Forms in Atlantic


Guardian
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:30 UTC
MIAMI - Tropical Storm Chantal formed Tuesday morning in the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and Massachusetts, but it was not expected to threaten the United States, forecasters said.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning kills 12 cattle


The Press Association
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:57 UTC
The carcasses of 12 cattle were airlifted from a valley in southern Austria after they were killed by a lightning storm.
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Bizarro Earth

Mt. Bulusan explodes anew, spews 5-km high ash plume

GMA Staff Writer
GMANews.TV
Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:51 UTC
Bulusan Volcano rumbled to life anew Tuesday, sending an ash plume as high as five kilometers high into the Sorsogon sky.

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A column of ash and volcanic debris shooting up from the Mt. Bulusan volcano in the central Philippines on Tuesday.

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A Bulusan ash explosion seen at 16:17 on 31 May 2006.
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Bizarro Earth

Unnatural sea waves on India coast, cause of concern: Environmentalist


ZeeNews.com
Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:59 UTC
Waves crashing against the shore is nothing new for the inhabitants of two of Orissa's seaside tourist resorts---Puri and Gopalpur.

But what they have been witnessing for the last few months has come as a shock.

"The sea has been behaving in an unnatural manner with high waves lashing against the coast and damaging structures. It seems the sea is inching inside", said Jagannath Bastia, an environmental activist, who is a resident of the pilgrim town since long.
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