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Missing man found dead in Lipan, Texas after 'mountain lion attack'

Namita Singh
Independent (UK)
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:56 UTC
A cougar
© DreamstimeA cougar
The Sheriff's office of a county in Texas has said that a 28-year-old man who went missing last week was killed by a mountain lion, even as the wildlife officials said there was no evidence of such an attack.

Christopher Allen Whiteley was reported missing on Thursday after last being seen early Wednesday morning in Lipan, Texas, said the Sheriff's office of Hood County on Saturday.

The investigators found Whiteley's body in a wooded area of rural Texas, which was sent to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy. The preliminary report blamed the death on a "wild animal attack, possibly a mountain lion."

However, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department drew a contradictory conclusion and in a statement to the Sheriff's office said that experts who inspected the scene found no evidence of a "predatory attack by a mountain lion at the location where the victim was found."

There have been no confirmed fatal attacks by mountain lions in the state of Texas, according to the wildlife department.

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Attention

Six injured in wild boar attack in Odisha, India


New Indian Express
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:49 UTC
A boar
A boar
As many as six persons including two woman sweepers were injured in wild boar attack at Swargadwar here on Sunday morning.

Eyewitnesses said Gurubaria Naik along with a team of sweepers were engaged in cleaning the Swargadwar area at around 4.30 am.

Suddenly, a wild boar appeared and attacked two sweepers Urmila and Rohini. The animal ran away when other sweepers raised an alarm. The boar also attacked four persons who had ventured out for morning walk.

They are Amit Pradhan, Jitendra Kumar Jena, Ramesh Samantrai and M Ganaya. All the injured were rushed to the district headquarters hospital. The attending doctor said the injuries were minor and after first aid, the six persons were advised to go home.

Residents said this was the first such attack by a wild animal in the city. Forest officials could not be contacted.
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Attention

56-year-old man dead following shark attack at Honolua Bay, Hawaii


KITV
Wed, 09 Dec 2020 12:57 UTC
Great white shark
Maui Memorial Medical Center has confirmed that a 56-year-old man who was surfing at Honolua Bay on Tuesday has died.

The man was reportedly in critical condition after he was bit by a shark in the bay, according to the medical center and passed away Wednesday evening.


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Tuesday, an incident with a shark and recreational surfer was reported at Honolua Bay near where the Maui Pro is being held.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) says a 56-year-old man, from Lahaina was paddling out from the old ramp in the bay. He was taken to the hospital and admitted for surgery. At 1:03 p.m., Maui Health reported that the shark victim is in stable condition.

Comment: Another shark attack (though non-fatal) took place 2 days earlier on December 5 off South Australia with the victim being airlifted to hospital:
A 29-year-old surfer is understood to have escaped a shark after the animal bit him on Sunday afternoon. The attack - by a great white shark - took place in Kangaroo Island waters.

Emergency services were called to D'Estrees Bay about 2.20pm.

The victim swam back to shore where a member of the public assisted him.

An air ambulance met the driver that was taking the surfer to the hospital as they were making their way there.

Of the emergency, South Australia Police said: "The man managed to paddle back to shore and sought help from a member of the public who drove him toward Kingscote.

"Paramedics met the car en route and transported the man the rest of the way to the hospital.

"He was then airlifted to Adelaide for treatment."

Police said the surfer is not believed to be in a life threatening condition.

Signs have been distributed along D'Estrees Bay beach warning beach-goers of its closure.

Swimmers have been urged to avoid the region in wake of the incident.

The attack comes after a man was killed by a shark on the north-west coast of Western Australia.

The tragedy marked the eighth fatal shark attack in Australian beaches this year.

The 55-year-old man is understood to have been had been bodyboarding at Cable Beach in the Kimberley region of Broome.

Swimmers have been urged to avoid the region in wake of the incident.

The attack comes after a man was killed by a shark on the north-west coast of Western Australia.

The tragedy marked the eighth fatal shark attack in Australian beaches this year.

The 55-year-old man is understood to have been had been bodyboarding at Cable Beach in the Kimberley region of Broome.


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Tornado confirmed to have caused freak weather damage in Horsham, Australia

Gregor Heard
Queensland Country Life
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 10:30 UTC
Horsham tornado damage
© Gregor Heard.Nilo Polkinghorne and John McKenzie of the Hamilton State Emergency Service attend to the clean-up in the wake of wild weather in Francis-st, Horsham on Monday morning.
A FREAK weather event that caused severe damage in the Victorian city of Horsham has been confirmed as a tornado.

Preliminary investigations confirmed a short lived, but fierce storm hit a narrow swathe of the northern suburbs of the city.

Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Diana Eadie said it had been classified as an EF1 event, which means top wind speeds of between 138 and 177kph.

The State Emergency Service (SES) reported close to 100 requests for assistance, with 76 calls for property damage, around 12am to 1am Monday morning., with most of the damage in a narrow band 400 metres wide.

Ms Eadie said the entire event took place in around a minute.


Comment: Extremely rare winter tornado hits Trieste, Italy

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Snowflake Cold

Temperatures drop to minus 21C, with up to 4 feet of snowfall in Diamer, Pakistan


Arynews.tv
Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:07 UTC
mountain
Temperatures dropped in upper areas of Diamer district in Gilgit-Baltistan region to intense cold after sporadic snowfall for last two days, ARY News reported on Wednesday.

Mercury dropped to minus-21 Celsius at Nanga Parbat base camp, according to a weather report.

Babusar Top, Nanga Parbat base camp and Fairy Meadows have received heavy rainfall, according to weather report. Battugah Top and adjoining areas have also received snowfall on mountains.

Babusar Top and Battugah Top have received over four feet snowfall in the snow spell.

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Snowflake

Firefighters conduct rescue operations after heavy snow in Northern Italy


Yahoo! News
Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:41 UTC
Two cool cats
Two cool cats
Italian firefighters staged rescue operations in the Belluno region on December 8 after heavy snowfall in northern Italy, according to Italian reports.

Reports said eight people were reportedly trapped in Passo Giau.

In another operation on the same day, nine people were rescued at Passo San Pellegrino.


Comment: Historic levels of snow falls in parts of the Alps - up to 3 meters, with another meter forecast

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Boat

Ship loses record number of containers while crossing the Pacific - hit by waves 16 meters (52.5 feet) high

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 19:17 UTC
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Uncontained containers
Ship returned to Japan after encountering severe weather (wave heights of up to 16 meters, or 52.5 feet, the height of a five-story building).

The ONE Apus suffered the incident after encountering severe weather on Monday, November 30, during its voyage from Yantian, China to Long Beach, California. The vessel was approximately 1,600 nautical miles northwest of Hawaii at the time.

The ONE Apus is a 14,000 TEU containership built in 2019 measuring 364-meters in length and sailing under the Japanese flag. The vessel is operated by Japan's Ocean Network Express on the Far East Pacific 2 (FP2) Service.
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Blue Planet

New study shows that contrary to climate alarmism and media coverage, reef islands are GROWING despite rising sea


RT
Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:01 UTC
Jeh Island big rising sea level
© USDAJeh Island today, with its 1943 outline in red.
Against all odds, low-lying reef islands actually appear to be growing in some parts of the world, despite rising sea levels, increasing their footprint and defying doomsday predictions.

Geomorphologist Murray Ford from the University of Auckland in New Zealand led a team of researchers who examined Jeh Island, one of the 56 islands that make up the Ailinglaplap Atoll in the Marshall Islands, itself one of the most endangered nations on Earth.

Ford and his team pored over aerial and satellite imagery of the island from above and made the startling discovery that not only has Jeh increased in total land area by 13 percent since 1943, it may actually have once been four separate islands which have now morphed together due to net land-mass gains.

Comment: Mother Nature knows what she's doing. What a shock. And should an island subside, it's a sure bet there was a good reason for it.

In the immortal words of George Carlin, "The planet is fine."



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Boat

Severe floods hit Uberlândia, Brazil

Disasters News
YouTube
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:35 UTC
flood
(Translated from Brazilian Portuguese): A heavy rain that fell early tonight (8) in Uberlândia (MG), located in the Triângulo Mineiro, left the city with several flooding points. The Santa Monica neighborhood and the center were the most affected places. Drivers had their cars stopped because of flooding on public roads and some vehicles were driven by the current. Teams from the Civil Defense, the Fire Department and the Military Police (PM) were called in to respond to the occurrences.

Earlier, the Civil Defense issued an alert and confirmed that the city is on yellow alert due to the forecast of heavy rains. In case of emergency situations, residents should call the Fire Department (193), PM (190) or the agency itself (199). On Saturday (5), the city was also hit by a thunderstorm.

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French rescue helicopter crashes in the Alps during bad weather, killing 5

Jan Wesner Childs
The Weather Channel
Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:20 UTC
This picture taken on Dec. 9, 2020, shows houses and a church under snow at the entrance of Bonvillard, France, where a helicopter crash left five dead with only the pilot surviving but badly wounded.
© AFPThis picture taken on Dec. 9, 2020, shows houses and a church under snow at the entrance of Bonvillard, France, where a helicopter crash left five dead with only the pilot surviving but badly wounded.
Five people were killed when a rescue helicopter crashed in poor weather in the French Alps Tuesday.

The Eurocopter EC135 was flying at an altitude of about 5,900 feet when it came down near the town of Bonvillard, about 10 miles from Albertville in the Savoie area of the French Alps, according to a government news release.

Local authorities said weather conditions were particularly bad at the time, the Associated Press reported. It was overcast with low cloud ceilings and some snow was falling in the area Tuesday night, according to weather.com meteorologists.

Six people were on board, including the pilot, a pilot in training, two rescue personnel and two winch operators, according to the BBC.

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