Earth Changes
The senior citizen died of heavy bleeding after three to four pigs indiscriminately attacked him.
The incident took place in Bijinepally block in Nagar Kurnool district on Tuesday evening.
Local police sub-inspector told Mirror that C Kondaiah (in his late 70s) was living in a shed outside his son's house. On Tuesday, he kept the door open and slept. There was nobody at home.
Some pigs roaming around attacked him. Neighbours saw the pigs with blood on their mouths and suspected that they attacked somebody. They went into Kondaiah's shed and found him lying dead in a pool of blood.
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The Zackenberg valley in Northeast Greenland, summer 2018. Huge amounts of snow still covered the ground in late June, where the snow-covered season usually is coming to an end.
The Zackenberg valley in Northeast Greenland, summer 2018. Huge amounts of snow still covered the ground in late June, where the snow-covered season usually is coming to an end.
"2018 may offer a peep into the future, where increased climatic variability may push the arctic species to — and potentially beyond — their limits."
A new study published Tuesday looked at the implications of extreme snowfall in the Arctic in 2018 — the kind of increased precipitation event scientists link to climate change — and researchers say the scenario could be a harbinger of how ecosystems in the region will be negatively affected by a rapidly warming planet.
"The result was an almost complete reproductive failure of plants and animals of all sizes," the authors wrote.
The takeaway for arctic ecosystems, the authors found, is that "changes in precipitation may prove as crucial as changes in temperature — if not even more."
For the study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers focused on the monitoring site of Zackenberg in Northeast Greenland. In 2018, the Arctic — including the High Arctic where the Zackenberg facility is — saw unusually large amounts of snow. That meant there was a significant delay in snow melt, which in turn made it difficult for plants to grow and for animals to access resources.
The result? The "most complete reproductive failure encountered in the terrestrial ecosystem during more than two decades of monitoring," said the study.
Time running out for San Francisco?
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A seagull found sick at Huntington State Beach on Thursday, Oct. 10, recovers at the Wetlands and Wildlife Center. The gull was one of 12 found at the beach
A seagull found sick at Huntington State Beach on Thursday, Oct. 10, recovers at the Wetlands and Wildlife Center. The gull was one of 12 found at the beach
A handful of wildlife experts and volunteers responded to a call from a woman walking on the beach, who first saw the numerous dead and dying gulls at around 11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10, said Lisa Peronne, wildlife manager at the Huntington Beach-based rehabilitation nonprofit.
When Peronne and her team arrived, she said they found 12 beached Western Gulls on the high tide line mixed up with seaweed. Upon inspecting the birds, eight were dead and the other four were clinging to life, she said.
"When we found them," Peronne said, "we had to pick up each bird to see if they were dead or alive"
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White smoke plumes above Metis Shoal observed this week.
White smoke plumes above Metis Shoal observed this week.
The eruption at Matis Shoal, a submarine volcano around halfway between the islands of Kao and Late in Tonga, was first noticed on Tuesday when a pilot with the Real Tonga airline flew over the area and alerted ground control to white columns of steam rising to about 5000 metres elevation.
GeoNet and the Wellington Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre, a department of Metservice, have been monitoring the situation, but say there is currently no risk to flights in the area.
According to the USDA, only 15 percent of all U.S. corn and only 14 percent of all U.S. soybeans had been harvested as of October 6th...
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The photographed area is 70th parallel north - with a distance to North Pole of only 1043 miles - where Russia has its northernmost residential settlements of Western Siberia.
The photographed area is 70th parallel north - with a distance to North Pole of only 1043 miles - where Russia has its northernmost residential settlements of Western Siberia.
And while vegetation in khasyreis, basins of drained Arctic lakes, is less of a surprise, researchers discovered 'bursts of life' next to a residential settlement where permafrost ice veins were broken when people dug sand pits.
The photographed area is 70th parallel north - with a distance to North Pole of only 1043 miles - where Russia has its northernmost residential settlements of Western Siberia.
Comment: While it is being documented that permafrost is thawing and methane has been observed bubbling up through a Siberian lake, in the Antarctic summer's have been so cold that it's killing off even the moss, so clearly this isn't global warming but our Earth evidently is changing:
- Arctic lake mysteriously disappears in Novaya Zemlya, Russia
- The truth about Attenborough's falling walruses
- Super-colony of 1.5 Million Adélie penguins discovered on Danger islands, Antarctica
- Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
Holl Belle posted the video to her Facebook page, saying it was like something out of a movie.
"Oh my God, look at them all," she says in the video as what appears to be bird carcasses littered around the entrance to the Hall of Fame building.
In the video, Belle speaks with a woman who says she works at the building. She says the birds had been slamming into the building for about an hour.
Comment: Evidently this wasn't a wrong turn that these birds took, they were slamming into the building for "about an hour". Although the reason behind this mass mortality is yet to be discerned, a clue may lie in similar incidents, such as in June this year in Canada, birds were found to be found behaving equally strangely, with investigators concluding it was related to exhaustion and starvation due to the unusually cold weather: High bird deaths likely due to cold weather and starvation in Campbellton, Canada
"We've been having a problem where little birds would fly into our window, into our cars," Anderson said. "Even if the vehicles were parked they'd fly into them, and they'd fly into our fence.See also:
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The birds may have encountered bad weather during their migration, causing them to expend their energy reserves. The birds may also have reached their destination only to find a lack of food, which could be the result of cool temperatures.
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Comment: Elsewhere in the Arctic a wildflower meadow photographed in Arctic oases surprises scientists.