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The whale measured about seven metres long, says the man who found it.
A beached minke whale was found dead off West Cape, P.E.I., on Wednesday afternoon.
The whale was already dead when a local man came across it at about 3 p.m. The man said he measured the whale at about seven metres (24 feet) long.
A spokesperson for DFO confirmed to CBC News that the agency is aware a minke whale washed up in the area.
"Fishery officers will visit the site and take measurements and photos of the whale," reads a statement from DFO.
© Mike Billings/FacebookGhost lobster
Don't be scared; just get some drawn butter ready.
A fisherman in Maine made the catch of a lifetime off the coast of Stonington, where he caught a translucent "ghost lobster" early Tuesday, the Portland Press Herald reports.
"Caught a translucent white lobster!" Mike Billings posted on Facebook. "1:100 million yow!"
But Billings later tossed the creepy crustacean back overboard because it was too small, leading some commenters to question why he didn't hold onto his find.
© CONAFOR/TwitterMore of B.C. has burned in wildfires in 2018 than any year on record.
The B.C. government has extended the provincial state of emergency because of wildfires that have now burned more area than any other season on record.
As of Tuesday, more than 12,984 square kilometres of the province had burned, pushing past the previous record set just one year earlier.
As 534 fires continued to burn on Wednesday morning, the province announced that it has extended the state of emergency through to the end of the day on Sept. 12. About 3,200 people have been removed because of the wildfires, and another 21,800 are on alert.
© Myanmar Fire ServiceRescues and evacuations in Bago Region after a dam breach, August 2018.
At least 50,000 people are thought to have evacuated their homes after the Swar irrigation dam was breached during the early hours of 29 August, 2018, according to Reuters.
Images on social media show teams from fire services and military helping to evacuate people from flooded areas. Myanmar Fire Service said they were using boats to carry out search and rescue operations. Some unconfirmed reports suggested that there have been some fatalities.
The dam break also caused flooding on the Yangon - Mandalay highway after a bridge was severely damaged.
Several houses and property estimated at several millions of naira were destroyed following the flooding that wreaked havoc in the community.
Residents, motorcyclists and other commuters in the area who blamed the incident on the neglect by both the state and local governments have however called on Governor Tanko Almakura to urgently commence repair work on rural roads, collapse bridges to remove the untold hardship being encountered in the area.
The residents and motorists, who lamented the hardship facing them following the poor state of the roads, regretted the death of the victims who lost their lives as a result of the flood that hits the area.
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Despite much higher-than-normal amounts of rain in early 2017, the large agricultural and metropolitan communities that rely on groundwater in central California experienced only a short respite from an ongoing drought. When the rain stopped, drought conditions returned and the ground has continued to sink, according to researchers.
"With the heavy storms in early 2017, Californians were hopeful that the drought was over," said Kyle Murray, a Cornell doctoral candidate in the field of geophysics. "There was a pause in land subsidence over a large area, and even uplift of the land in some areas. But by early summer the subsidence continued at a similar rate we observed during the drought."
Comment: Sinkholes and fissures have become a worldwide phenomenon of late, so is it just consumption of water that has lead to California's drought and subsidence - considering 2017 had higher than average rainfalls - or is there more happening below ground that the scientists have yet to discover?
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© NOAA FisheriesThe carcass of an endangered North Atlantic right whale was found on Monday off Massachusetts.
The whale was spotted off Martha's Vineyard, a Massachusetts Island south of Cape Cod, on Monday, according to Jennie Lyons, spokesperson for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
Boaters spotted the whale again on Tuesday and the U.S. Coast Guard provided a vessel to bring a small team of NOAA scientists to the carcass.
"They applied a solar-powered satellite tag to monitor the location of the animal," she said. "They also took a tissue sample, which may help us learn more about this whale."
The cause of death isn't known. Because of the degree of decomposition, a necropsy will not be performed, and the whale will not be towed to land.
It said that the deaths were caused after the victims were hit by lightning.
Rwanda's meteorological department has predicted that the East African nation is likely to experience thunderstorm with squally winds in the next few days especially in the north and west.
Comment: Parts of Africa have experienced some exceptional rainfall with consequent heavy flooding over the last 5 months (often more than once) as revealed by the following reports:
Major flooding strikes 2 states of Nigeria with 48 people dead
Flooding leaves 23 dead, over 70,000 affected in Sudan
Floods in Niger leave 19 dead and 65,000 affected
Flooding affects over 30,000 in Liberia
Floods leave 22 dead, 3,000 homes destroyed as 'extraordinary' rainfall continues in Niger
At least 5 killed by flooding in southern Algeria
Deadly floods in Aboisso, Côte d'Ivoire
At least 10 killed by floods in Nigeria
"Adverse cyclonic conditions" bring flooding to the streets of Cape Town, South Africa
Dozens killed after dam break in Kenya, where record flooding continues
At least 15 people dead after severe flooding hits Ivory Coast
Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall kills 32 in Ethiopia - Update
Rare cyclone in Gulf of Aden brings flooding to Yemen, Somalia, Djibouti
Flooding in Somalia affects 500,000 people