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The flight crew struggled to stand during the turbulence.
The flight crew struggled to stand during the turbulence.
Severe turbulence injured 11 passengers and wrecked inside a plane's cabin during a 13 hour flight this week. Pictures of the aftermath of the Eva Air flight from Taiwan to Chicago show bags, belongings and food scattered across the floor and in the galley.
When the Boeing 777 plane landed in Chicago, eight flight attendants and three passengers were taken directly to hospital with injuries including sprained ankles and bruises.
The pictures also show flight crew struggling to stand as the turbulence rocked the plane.
The Mirror reported turbulence started an hour and twenty minutes into the flight.
The animal is roughly six metres long
A member of the public reported the sighting to the Coleraine Coastguard on Friday afternoon at Runkerry Strand, near the town of Portballintrae.
Personnel from the coastguard investigated the sighting and unfortunately, on arrival, the animal was already dead.
The whale carcass will now be examined by the Environment Agency before it is removed by the council.
There are unconfirmed reports that the mammal may be a Minke Whale.
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Fifty right whales a year are now becoming trapped in fishing gear and death rates fro entanglement have more than doubled.
Fifty right whales a year are now becoming trapped in fishing gear and death rates fro entanglement have more than doubled.
The principal cause for the North Atlantic right whale's precipitous decline has been the use of increasingly heavy commercial fishing gear dropped on to the sea bed to catch lobsters, snow crabs and hogfish off the east coast of North America. Whales swim into the rope lines attached to these sea-bed traps and their buoys and become entangled. In some cases hundreds of metres of heavy rope, tied to traps weighing more than 60kg, have been found wrapped around whales. "We have records of animals carrying these huge loads - which they cannot shake off - for months and months," said Julie van der Hoop, of Aarhus University in Denmark.
"In some cases they have to burn more than 25,000 calories a day to carry these great weights around with them. Some whales die. In other cases, divers have been able to free them but the whales are often left very thin and undernourished. As a result, they cannot reproduce."
The North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, derives its name from the fact that early whalers considered them to be the "right" whales to hunt - they are slow swimmers, linger in coastal waters and float after being killed. Vast numbers were slaughtered across the Atlantic, with only a few pods surviving along the east coast of the United States and Canada. Numbers dropped - possibly to a population as low as 100 - until in 1935 it was declared illegal to hunt them.
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Forest employees put up camera traps.
Forest employees put up camera traps.
Had Hema Devi paid heed to warnings of forest officials in Uttarakhand's Tanakpur, not to venture into the jungle to collect fodder and firewood following reports that a suspected man-eater was on the prowl in the area, she would been alive today.
Hema Devi, a forest villager, was mauled to death by a tiger on Wednesday afternoon inside the forest where she had gone to collect fodder, allegedly disregarding the warnings.
Despite reports of the presence of the big cat in the area, women from surrounding villages entered the forest twice every day to collect firewood and fodder.
On Wednesday morning officials asked the women not venture into the forest, warning them about the presence of the suspected man-eater.
In a video provided by the forest department, two officials--Nirmal Khulbe and Kailash Bisht-- are heard asking the women not to venture into the forest.
Bali volcano has erupted for a second time in less than a week, forcing airlines to re-route flights
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Indonesia's Mount Agung volcano erupts for a second time in less than a week as seen from the coastal town of Amed, in Bali, Indonesia.
Indonesia's Mount Agung volcano erupts for a second time in less than a week as seen from the coastal town of Amed, in Bali, Indonesia.
The eruption emitted a bigger ash cloud than Tuesday's blast. It caused several airlines - including, KLM, Qantas, AirAsia, and Virgin - to cancel or rearrange flights in the region.
"Tourism in Bali is still safe, except in the danger (zone) around Mount Agung," Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said in a statement.
"There has not been an increase in seismic and volcanic activity after the (Tuesday) eruption until this afternoon," the statement read.
But the Council insists there's nothing fishy about the large-scale stranding.
Newshub spoke to local whitebaiter Swanny, who said he's never seen anything like the amount of Smelt fish that washed up at the Otaka riverbed earlier this week.
He said he's been coming to the river for more than 60 years.
"You catch a lot of Smelt in November in your net. It might be four or five dozen at a time sort of thing, so you just tip them back. But I've never seen nothing like this - this is one out of the books," he said.
Police said the incident occurred at about 9:06 p.m. on the 1300 block of West Pike Street in North Philadelphia.
Police said a responding officer shot the dog, which died as a result of the shooting.
The victim, whose identity has not been released, was taken to Temple University Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 10:18 p.m., police said.
Are we headed for near-term human extinction?
Recent studies suggest it is irresponsible to rule out the possibility after last week's "warning to humanity" from more than 15,000 climate change scientists
BY ZACH RUITER NOVEMBER 22, 2017 3:34 PM
A "warning to humanity" raising the spectre "of potentially catastrophic climate change... from burning fossil fuels, deforestation and agricultural production - particularly from farming ruminants for meat consumption," was published in the journal BioScience last week.
More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries endorsed the caution, which comes on the 25th anniversary of a letter released by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 1992, advising that "a great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided."
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[Several speculative climate scare stories - methane, ocean acidification, ice free arctic, decline of sulphate aerosols from coal]
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The take-away
Out of control climate change means feedback mechanisms may accelerate beyond any capacity of human control. The occurrences discussed in this article are five of some 60 known weather-related phenomenon, which can lead to what climate scientist James Hansen has termed the "Venus Syndrome," where oceans would boil and the surface temperature of earth could reach 462 degrees Celsius. Along the way humans could expect to die in resource wars, starvation due to food systems collapse or lethal heat exposure.
Given all that remains unknown and what is at stake with climate change, is it irresponsible to rule out the possibility of human extinction in the coming decades or sooner?
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It is unknown what cause the large crater to appear
It is unknown what cause the large crater to appear
Enzo Foschi was one of the first politicians to post a picture on social media, saying: "Luckily at that moment no one was crossing the street and no one got hurt.
"Rome collapses and mayor Raggi says everything is all right."
There was no immediate reports of injuries after the giant sinkhole opened up, according to local reports.
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