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Dead whale found on the bow of cruise ship entering Ketchikan, Alaska


Daily Mail
Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:18 UTC
A dead humpback whale was pulled from the bow of the Grand Princess cruise ship Wednesday in Ketchikan, Alaska

A dead humpback whale was pulled from the bow of the Grand Princess cruise ship Wednesday in Ketchikan, Alaska
A cruise ship reached an Alaska port with a surprise on its bow: the carcass of a humpback whale.

The Grand Princess, a 949-foot (290-meter) ship in the Princess Cruises fleet, on Wednesday morning pulled into Ketchikan with the marine mammal lodged on its submerged, bulbous bow, a device designed to avoid wave-making.

Princess spokesman Brian O'Connor said the company was surprised and saddened to discover the whale.

'It is unknown how or when this happened as the ship felt no impact,' he said in a statement.

'It is also unknown, at this time, whether the whale was alive or already deceased before becoming lodged on the bow.'
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Bizarro Earth

Powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake rocks the Philippines


The Independent, UK
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:16 UTC
Earthquake Evac
© Reuters
Students use their hands to cover their heads as they evacuate their school premises after an earthquake of magnitude 6.2 hit the northern island of Luzon.
A deep earthquake of 6.3 magnitude has shaken off Luzon island in the northern Philippines, rocking capital Manila.

Office workers in the capital left their buildings but no damage was apparent after the quake struck about midday Friday.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the earthquake's epicenter was five kilometres (three miles) southwest of Batangas province's Lian town at a depth of 173 kilometres (107 miles).
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Ice Cube

Severe storms hit Kansas; Massive hail damages cars, homes in WaKeeney

Sean Breslin
The Weather Channel
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 01:31 UTC
Hailstorm damage in WaKeeney, Kansas
© Twitter/@WxAllen
This home suffered major damage from a hailstorm in WaKeeney, Kansas, on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017.
Homes and vehicles were heavily damaged in a northwestern Kansas town Thursday afternoon when severe storms dumped huge hail on the area.

In one part of WaKeeney, a town of about 1,800 located some 200 miles northwest of Wichita, 90 percent of the vehicles in a parking lot were damaged by the hail, and nearby homes had window and siding damage, a National Weather Service employee reported.

In Trego County, where WaKeeney is located, hailstones as large as softballs were seen in some areas, according to reports relayed to the NWS.

"The atmosphere is primed this afternoon for giant hail and damaging winds as a slow-moving cold front drifts southward into the southern Plains at the surface and a burst of energy pushes southeastward from the central Rockies across the Plains," said weather.com meteorologist Jonathan Belles.

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Strange sounds heard from the sky in Romania

Lake Victoria
YouTube
Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:24 UTC
Strange sounds in Romania
© YouTube/Lake Victoria
Strange sounds from the sky in Romania.

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Attention

Rogue elephant kills 15 people over a month in India


Gulf Times
Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:29 UTC
Charging elephant
© Getty
Charging elephant
An elephant that has killed 15 people in eastern India over a months-long rampage could be shot within days if it is not brought under control, an official said yesterday.

Wildlife rangers and hunters assembled in Jharkhand after another victim was trampled to death on Tuesday evening, the state's chief forest and wildlife conservator L R Singh said.

The rogue elephant crushed four victims in Bihar state in March before crossing into neighbouring Jharkhand and killing 11 more.

"Villagers are living in fear, especially the Paharia tribe that lives on the upper hillier regions where the elephant roams. Something must be done," Singh said, referring to one of the poorest indigenous tribal communities in eastern India.
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Cloud Lightning

280 people have died of lightning strikes since April in Odisha, India


Outlook
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 18:08 UTC
lightning
A total of 280 people including 27 children have lost their lives in Odisha after being struck by lightning since April this year, official sources said today.

Stating that the deaths due to lightning strike occurred in 29 of the 30 districts of the state, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) B P Sethi said Ganjam and Mayurbhanj districts reported the highest number of 30 deaths each.

Both the districts were followed by 24 deaths in Balasore, 17 in Bhadrak, 16 in Keonjhar, 15 each in Jajpur and Kendrapara, 13 in Koraput, 12 in Nabarangpur, and 11 each in Dhenkanal, Cuttack and Bargarh.

Among the other districts, eight persons were killed in Sundargarh, while seven each in Angul, Kalahandi, Khordha and Nuapada, six in Puri, five each in Balangir and Sambalpur, four in Nayagarh, three each in Gajapati, Jagatsinghpur, Jharsuguda, Kandhamal and Rayagada, two in Deogarh and one each in Boudh and Malkangiri.
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Attention

Volcanoes Poas and Turrialba erupt in Costa Rica


Prensa Latina
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:58 UTC
volcano
Costa Rican volcanoes Poas and Turrialba started their Wednesday morning with significant eruptions of ashes, gases and aerosol, said reports made by the Costa Rican National Seismologic and Volcanologic Observatory (OVSICON).

Between the 01:00 and the 06:00 hours local time, Poas presented exhalations with the presence of ashes, which is still maintained up to now.

The column still does not go over the 400 meters over the top of the crater, located in the province of Alajuela, 45 kilometers northwest from San Jose.

The column of ashes is produced one day after the eruption of gases, for several hours.
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Dead seabirds washing ashore on Long Island and New England beaches

Todd Mcleish
ecori.org
Wed, 09 Aug 2017 17:13 UTC
A dead great shearwater recently found on a Block Island beach
© Matt Schenck
A dead great shearwater recently found on a Block Island beach
Walking on the beach at the north end of Block Island last month, Matt Schenck stumbled upon two dead and decomposing seabirds, which the avid birdwatcher identified as great shearwaters. While gulls of various species are commonly found dead on local beaches, shearwaters are an extreme rarity.

Except this year.

Hundreds of great shearwaters have turned up dead on beaches on Long Island and southern New England this summer, and no one seems to know why. In addition to the birds on Block Island, birders and biologists have reported dead shearwaters on Rhode Island beaches in Tiverton and Charlestown.

Shearwaters spend most of their lives far out to sea, where they soar just above the waves as they forage on small fish and other marine creatures near the surface of the water. Four species of shearwater — great, sooty, Cory's and Manx — are typically seen in Rhode Island waters, though they seldom travel within sight of land. Most breed on remote islands in the South Atlantic.
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Attention

Sea lions wash up on California coast amid return of toxic blooms

Peter Fimrite
San Francisco Chronicle.
Wed, 09 Aug 2017 16:59 UTC
A California sea lion suffering from domoic acid poisoning
© Nicole Boliaux, The Chronicle
A California sea lion suffering from domoic acid poison
Scores of convulsing sea lions are washing up on Central California beaches after eating fish poisoned by a plume of toxic algae that could spread north toward the Bay Area and cause widespread problems, marine biologists said.

Since June, veterinarians at the Marine Mammal Center in the Marin Headlands have treated 89 animals — all but seven of them sea lions — plucked mostly off beaches near San Luis Obispo, where a large algal bloom formed in the ocean.

Of the 82 sea lions brought to the center, 31 have died, and virtually all of them had seizures caused by domoic acid, the dreaded neurotoxin that closed down the Dungeness crab season two years ago and killed off thousands of marine species over the past two decades, said Shawn Johnson, the center's director of veterinary science.

"We've rescued 64 animals just in July," said Johnson, who coordinates the rehabilitation of injured marine mammals rescued from San Luis Obispo to the Oregon border. "They've been coming in huge waves, as many as 10 a day."
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Fire

Satellite captures epic scale of Greenland inferno in intricate detail


RT
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 14:16 UTC
satellite images of a massive wildfire in Greenland
© Deimos Imaging, an UrtheCast Company
Mesmerizing satellite images of a massive wildfire in Greenland have been captured from space.

While the wildfire could possibly be the biggest in the icy country's history, their satellite records go back only as far as the year 2000, and it's "certainly the biggest one" in that respect, said remote-sensing scientist Stef Lhermitte, speaking to New Scientist.

Wildfires in Greenland, which is mostly associated with snow, are not unusual. In fact, the region experienced similar wildfires in both August 2016 and 2015, but "2017 is exceptional in the number of active fire detections," Professor Lhermitte tweeted.

Comment: Unusual wildfires are burning in Greenland

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