Earth Changes

Global dearth: Study claims planet has lost 33% arable land in last 40 years

RT
Thu, 03 Dec 2015 13:00 UTC

One third of the world's arable land has been lost to erosion or pollution over the last 40 years, according to a new report. The study's authors call for vital action, warning that the global disaster could have severe effects on world food production.

The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Sheffield's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, involved analyzing numerous pieces of research published over the past decade. The scientists concluded that nearly 33 percent of the world's adequate or high-quality food-producing land has been lost at a speed surpassing nature's ability to replace diminished soil.

"Soil is lost rapidly but replaced over millennia and this represents one of the greatest global threats for agriculture," said Duncan Cameron, professor of Plant and Soil Biology at the University of Sheffield, as quoted by Phys.org. He added that "erosion rates from ploughed fields average 10-100 times greater than rates of soil formation."

Comment: For all the talk about sustainability during this time, with psychopaths in power grabbing as much remaining arable land as they can get their hands on, and natural climate change causing widespread crop failures, the planet will soon struggle to sustain billions of people.

Pack of Wolfhounds maul woman in New Zealand: 'There were pieces of flesh everywhere - it was like a shark attack'

Timothy Brown
The New Zealand Herald
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:37 UTC

Irish wolfhounds were developed from war hounds and are strong enough to kill a wolf.

A Dunedin woman required surgery after a dog attack so horrific it was "more like a shark attack".

The woman, who did not want to be identified, was delivering the Otago Daily Times in Walter St, in The Glen, about 6.30am yesterday when she was attacked by as many as three Irish wolfhounds.

Her partner said the attack was so frenzied it left "blood everywhere and pieces of flesh everywhere".

The woman would require multiple operations, including plastic surgery, and it was not yet known if she would walk again, as one of her calf muscles was "virtually all gone", said the man, who did not wish to be identified.

"It's that extreme - it's more like a shark attack," he said

Lightning strikes kill five in Rajasthan, India

Press Trust of India
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 12:29 UTC

Five persons, including two women were killed and another one injured after being struck by lightning in separate incidents at four districts of Rajasthan during sudden rains and thundershowers, police said today.

All the victims were working in agriculture fields at the time of the incidents yesterday, they said.

In Bharatpur district, Dinesh Gurjar (25) and Sampat Mali (35) were struck down by lightning at Methna and Govindpur village respectively. Ramji (55) too was killed in a similar incident at Mathhingota village in Dholpur district, they said.

In Dhablana village of Bundi district, a woman named Bhuri Bai Meghwal (45) was killed, while another woman Panabai Meena (50) was injured after being struck by lightning, police said.

The injured was rushed to a government hospital, where her condition was stated to be stable, they said, adding a 50-year-old woman named Surjo was another victim of lightning in Piplet village of Sawai Madhopur district.

Carbon tax this! Momotombo Volcano in Nicaragua erupts for first time in over a century, forcing thousands to evacuate

TeleSUR TV
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:51 UTC

Thousands of people in Nicaragua have been asked to evacuate an area of about four miles surrounding the Momotombo volcano after it erupted for the first time in 110 years spewing lava, ashes and smoke.

"The seismic tremor is increasing and in the volcano's crater there are explosions every four seconds," said Wilfried Strauch, a scientific adviser for the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies or INETER.

Record December depth of snow for Reykjavik, Iceland

Iceland Monitor
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 18:45 UTC

Residents of Icelandic capital Reykjavik woke up to 42 cm (16.5 inches) of snow this morning - the highest depth of snow in December since records began.

According to the Icelandic Met Office, the previous record was set back in 2011, when snow lay 33 cm (13 inches) deep in Reykjavik on 29 December that year.

The highest ever depth of snow recorded in in Reykjavik was 55 cm (21.5 inches) back in January 1937, and if snows continues to fall on the city, this record might also be broken - and soon.

Now at 42 cm, snow levels in Reykjavik were 32 cm just four days ago on Saturday.

Big early morning boom shakes Arcata, California

Hank Sims
Lost Coast Outpost
Tue, 01 Dec 2015 06:32 UTC

Your Lost Coast Outpost woke up to reports of an ungodly loud explosion that rocked residents of the Windsong/Greenview/Coastal Grove neighborhood of Arcata this morning at about 3:40 a.m.

Another reader writes:

Hey LoCo, there was a ground shaking boom over here in Arcata, Windsong Village area. Any ideas what it was? Just happened maybe 20 minutes ago, setting off car alarms, people coming out on porches, etc. Any info?

And still another:

We just had a HUGE boom in the bottoms of arcata. Villa way and Haeger intersection. Set off car alarms everywhere. It was the loudest explosion I've ever heard.

Even an Arcata police officer patrolling near the intersection of Sunset and H heard it, as evidenced by this clip of police radio communication at 3:45 a.m., the first mention of the boom on our scanner tape.

For at least the next 15 minutes or so, officers patrolled the area and spoke with some people who were shaken from sleep. Most of the activity seemed to be centered on the Iverson/Blakeslee/Zehndner corridor near Coastal Grove Charter School. One person told the police that he believed it to be a gas explosion of some sort, as his or her heaters started acting funny right after the boom. Another person reported seeing smoke a few blocks away, at the corner of 11th and Villa.

If police cracked the case, it is not immediately apparent from the record of their communications. We'll try to get hold of someone later today. But the fire department and/or ambulance services seem never to have been notified, so we can probably cross "hash-lab explosion" off the list.

Hong Kong's pink dolphins at risk of disappearing

Aaron Tam
phys.org
Sun, 29 Nov 2015 16:13 UTC

Pink Dolphin

As Hong Kong seeks to expand its international airport and with a major new bridge project under way, campaigners warn that the dwindling number of much-loved pink dolphins in surrounding waters may disappear altogether.

Conservationists say their repeated concerns have fallen on deaf ears, with what they describe as a "rapid" decline of the mammal in the past few decades.

The Chinese white dolphin—popularly known as the pink dolphin due to its pale pink colouring—draws scores of tourists daily to the waters north of Hong Kong's Lantau island.

It also became Hong Kong's official mascot for the handover ceremony in 1997, when Britain returned the territory to China.

But despite the affection felt towards the dolphin, campaigners say there may soon be none left.

The proposed construction of a third runway at Hong Kong's busy Chek Lap Kok airport could be the nail in the coffin, they say.

Magnitude 4.6 earthquake strikes southern Alaska

Daily Journal
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:57 UTC

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck in southern Alaska.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake hit just after 2 a.m. local time and was centered about 48 miles (79 kilometers) northwest of Valdez and 93 miles (150 kilometers) east-northeast of Anchorage.

The survey says the quake was about 21 miles (35 kilometers) deep.

The National Tsunami Warning Center says a tsunami is not expected.

Source: AP

German geologist accuses NASA of altering temperature records to support the global warming myth

Barbara Hollingsworth
CNS News
Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:18 UTC

Dr. Friedrich-Karl Ewert (University of Paderborn)

A German scientist has accused the National Aeronautics and Space Agency's (NASA) Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) of altering temperature records between 2010 and 2012 to produce the illusion that the Earth has been warming since 1950.

GISS datasets are used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to document global warming.

In a presentation at the 2012 EIKE Climate Conference in Germany, Professor Friedrich-Karl Ewert, a retired geologist and data expert from the University of Paderborn, said that he examined publicly available archived temperature records from 1,153 weather stations around the globe going back to 1881 and found evidence of "massive" tampering by GISS between 2010 and 2012.

Comment: More and more scientists are exposing the global warming myth but the myth lives on for political and economic reasons. The fact is, as Dr. Ewert pointed out, the earth is in a cooling phase.

Eastern Taiwan shaken by two moderate earthquakes

Chen Wei-ting and Lee Hsin-Yin
Focus Taiwan
Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:36 UTC

Two earthquakes measuring 4.7 and 4.5 on the Richter scale, respectively, hit eastern Taiwan Wednesday afternoon, according to the Central Weather Bureau.

The magnitude 4.7 earthquake took place at 1:21 p.m., with the epicenter located at sea about 37.9 kilometers east of Hualien County Hall at a depth of 5 km.

The strongest tremor, which posted an intensity of 4 on Taiwan's 7-tiered intensity scale, was felt in Hualien County's Taroko scenic area, bureau data showed.

The temblor was followed by a smaller one at 1:53 p.m., also centered at sea about 34.5 km east of Hualien County Hall at a depth of 21.9 km.

It measured an intensity of 3 in Heping Township in Hualien.

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Earth Changes

Global dearth: Study claims planet has lost 33% arable land in last 40 years

Pack of Wolfhounds maul woman in New Zealand: 'There were pieces of flesh everywhere - it was like a shark attack'

Lightning strikes kill five in Rajasthan, India

Carbon tax this! Momotombo Volcano in Nicaragua erupts for first time in over a century, forcing thousands to evacuate

Record December depth of snow for Reykjavik, Iceland

Big early morning boom shakes Arcata, California

Hong Kong's pink dolphins at risk of disappearing

Magnitude 4.6 earthquake strikes southern Alaska

German geologist accuses NASA of altering temperature records to support the global warming myth

Eastern Taiwan shaken by two moderate earthquakes

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