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34 killed, 350 injured by leopards in 10 years across Himachal Pradesh, India

Gaurav Bisht
Hindustan Times.
Wed, 10 May 2017 15:19 UTC
Leopard

Leopard
The rising human population and shrinking habitat of animals has led to a conflict between the two. In the last decade, leopards have strayed into human habitation and killed 34 people in different parts of the hill state.

The prowling leopards in Himachal has certainly raised concerns for the forest department, which has now ordered to carry out a statewide survey to assess the population of felines that threaten humans and livestock in the state.

"Increasing biotic interference in the habitats of large carnivores, including leopards, and easy availability of food/ prey base in the human-used landscapes has brought them towards human habitations, causing leopard-human conflicts," said additional chief secretary Tarun Kapoor.

The state has witnessed 34 deaths due to leopard attacks since 2004. In addition, 367 cases of injury to people have also been reported over the same period, out of which 99 cases were of grievous nature.
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Seismograph

Shallow 5.9 magnitude earthquake near Tanaga Volcano, Alaska


Earthquake Track
Wed, 10 May 2017 14:52 UTC
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5.9 magnitude earthquake

UTC time: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 07:59 AM

USGS page: M 5.9 - 28km SW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska

10 km depth: Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Island
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Cloud Lightning

Two men killed by lightning bolt in Phitsanulok, Thailand

Mongkolchaowarat Tangmangmee
The Nation
Wed, 10 May 2017 14:25 UTC
lightning
Two men were reportedly killed by lightning bolt at a rice field in Phitsanulok's Nakhon Thai district, police said on Wednesday morning.

Following the 9.30am report of the deaths, police went to the scene in Ban Kok Moung of Tambon Yang Klone and found the bodies of Humpaeng Sewadi and Bualan Booncherdchu, both 47, at a shack in the middle of a field.

Their clothes were torn and their bodies showed burn marks and bruises. It was estimated that they had been dead for at least 12 hours before their bodies were discovered. The bodies were sent for autopsies at Buddhachinaraj Hospital to determine the cause of death.

A preliminary investigation found that the two men had been hired to plough the rice field and were performing the task when a storm forced them to seek shelter at the shack, where they were apparently struck by lightning.
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Arrow Down

200-feet-deep sinkhole appears overnight in Karnataka, India


The Hindu
Mon, 08 May 2017 13:50 UTC
The sinkhole appeared in a private layout following two days of heavy rain in Oorgaumpet in KGF.

The sinkhole appeared in a private layout following two days of heavy rain in Oorgaumpet in KGF.
The residents of Oorgaumpet in Kolar Gold Fields woke up on Monday morning to a massive sinkhole, more than 200-ft deep, which was formed overnight in their neighbourhood. Following two days of heavy rain lashing the town, the sinkhole appeared in a private layout being developed in the area.

The municipal administration of Robertsonpet suspected that the area, though over 5 km away from the mining region, might have been an excavation site during the exploration phase of establishment of the gold mine in the colonial era
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R. Srikanth, Commissioner, City Municipal Council, Robertsonpet, said that the sinkhole was a minimum of over 200-ft deep and 10-ft wide. "Officials from Bharat Gold Mines Ltd. also visited the spot. BGML officials have been asked to check their archives to ascertain whether the area was at any time an excavation site," he said, adding that heavy rain may have been the trigger for the sinkhole.
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Cloud Lightning

Record-early Eastern Pacific storm,Tropical Storm Adrian


Weather Underground
Wed, 10 May 2017 13:13 UTC
Adrian earliest tropical storm

Comment: Meanwhile, recently in another part of the Pacific - Tropical Cyclone Donna becomes Category 5 storm, worst May storm on record in South Pacific


Tropical Storm Adrian kicked off a record early start to the 2017 eastern Pacific hurricane season Tuesday several hundred miles off the southern Mexican coast, but appears destined for a long-lived stall off the coast into at least next week.

Adrian was the earliest tropical cyclone to form in the northeast Pacific in the satellite era. This record was previously held by Hurricane Alma in 1990.

Here's the latest from the National Hurricane Center:
  • Tropical Storm Adrian is centered about 460 miles south-southeast of Salina Cruz, Mexico, and is moving slowly toward the northwest.
  • Adrian is forecast to gradually strengthen over the next few days, possibly becoming a hurricane by this weekend.
  • Adrian is also expected to slow down and may stall well off the southern Mexican coast by that time.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 3 gravediggers in Vietnam


news.com.au
Wed, 10 May 2017 08:38 UTC
lightning
Three men have been fatally struck by lightning while digging a grave in central Vietnam for a deceased family member.

The incident occurred on Tuesday in Hung Trach District in Quang Binh province as five members of an extended family dug a grave for a recently deceased relative, police newspaper An Ninh Thu Do reported.

Two others were injured, the report said.

In a separate case, lightning also killed a 42-year-old woman in nearby Quang Nam province Tuesday, the Tuoi Tre newspaper said.

Source: Deutsche Presse Agentur
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Fire

Huge Galway blaze among 30 wildfires raging across Ireland

Margaret Donnelly
Irish Independent
Tue, 09 May 2017 09:29 UTC
Gorse fires in the Ox Mountains in Co Sligo
© Irish Air Corps
Gorse fires in the Ox Mountains in Co Sligo.

Homes in danger of being destroyed if winds change, Coilte chief warns

Fire services are battling over 30 wild fires across the country, with farms and homes in danger of being destroyed.

A huge wild fire in Co Galway, which has a front expanse of 5km, is within 4.5km of houses as Coillte and emergency services battle to bring it under control.

More than 50 people are battling to get the fire under control and are fighting it on three fronts with two under control. However, one front is still burning significantly and the fire is approximately within 4.5km of people's homes.

Mark Carlin, Director of Forest Operations at Coillte told the Sean O'Rourke show on RTE Radio One that the main goal is to protect the wind turbines.

The fire at at Cloosh Valley is threatening to destroy one of Ireland's largest wind farms.

He said that at the moment there is a helicopter helping fight the fire and the team is about to be joined by the Air Corps.


Comment: A couple of months ago wildfires blazed across the West of Ireland.

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Arrow Down

Three people dead after avalanche in French Alps

Philip Whiteside
Sky News
Tue, 09 May 2017 16:42 UTC
Col du Greffier avalanche

The Col du Greffier is the u-shaped dip to the left of the highest point
Three people have died after an avalanche in a national park in the French Alps, local officials say.

Le Dauphine newspaper reported that the victims were cross-country skiers who got caught up in the snow slide in the Vanoise National Park at around 10am local time.

The trio, one of whom was a guide, were in the Mt Albaron area of the Haute Maurienne, not far from the Italian border, at the time.

The guide was named by Le Dauphine as Simon Paris, but his clients - a man and a woman, according to BFMTV - have yet to be identified.

The paper said they had made their way up the 3,000-metre high Col du Greffier, a U-shaped ridge between the summits of Albaron and Pic Regaud, close to the ski resort of Bonneval-sur-Arc in the Savoie department.

The recovery operation ended in the afternoon and authorities confirmed the death toll was final.

Gabriel Blanc told Le Dauphine: "It's over. The three bodies are on the surface. We know from a reliable source that they were only three."

The group was said to have been forced over an edge after the snow beneath them on the Vallonnet glacier gave way.
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Ice Cube

Record snowfall on Palomar Mountain, California

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Tue, 09 May 2017 21:27 UTC
mt palomar
More than double previous record for May 7th. Also, record cold in San Diego and many other California cities. Palomar Mountain is a mountain ridge in the Peninsular Ranges in northern San Diego County, California. It is home to the Palomar Observatory and Hale Telescope.

Meanwhile, the max temp in San Diego today (7 May 2017) rose to only 59 degrees F, breaking the previous record of 60 F set in 1930.
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Ice Cube

Dragon-skin ice, has been discovered by scientists, forged by intense Antarctic gales

Peter Dockrill
Science Alert
Mon, 08 May 2017 01:00 UTC
surface dragon ice pattern
© Guy Williams/University of Tasmania
Dragon skin ice pattern
Researchers in West Antarctica have observed a rare type of ice formation called "dragon-skin" ice, caused by intense hurricane-strength winds buffeting water as it freezes.

The phenomenon, which researchers say hasn't been seen in Antarctica since 2007, occurs in what's called polynyas - areas of open water surrounded by sea ice - which in strong wind conditions can act like outdoor 'ice factories', producing as much as 10 times as much sea ice as usual.

"Dragon-skin ice is very rare, bizarre, evidence of a darker chaos in the cryospheric realm," says polar oceanographer Guy Williams from Australia's University of Tasmania, referring to the parts of our planet's surface where water exists in frozen form.

In the case of dragon-skin ice, the cryosphere is affected by strong, descending winds called katabatic winds, which enhance ice production by continually lifting up surface ice after it has hardened - exposing and subsequently freezing fresh water sources before the cycle begins anew.
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