The dramatic moment a massive sinkhole devoured part of a street in Mexico City was captured by a witness determined to get the shot despite the nearby road crumbling into oblivion.
An underground tunnel was exposed when a 10-meter-wide and 20-meter-deep sinkhole suddenly opened between Colon and Humboldt street in the city center on Thursday.
Joe Sheppard Daily Mail Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:01 UTC
The cobra regurgitated a whole snake before it was placed in a bag and released into the wild
Footage has emerged of a cobra regurgitating another massive poisonous snake that it had swallowed.
The poorly reptile was spotted by farmer Rashid Khan on his land in Manchar Village, Western India.
He helped it regurgitate the other snake while another person filmed the process.
Mr Khan said: 'Sometimes the cobra would flare its hood and look straight at us at other times he would roll of the ground. It seemed to be writing in pain.'
The farmer saw from a distance that the cobra could not move and was choking.
'While the Common Indian Krait is a species of venomous snake found in the jungles, the Green Vine Snake is mildly venomous and normally feeds on frogs and lizards,' said Sujith, who later released the rescued Krait in the nearby forest area
A gory clip has been released of a venomous snake regurgitating a much larger snake that it had tried to swallow whole.
The unusual video shows a common Indian krait being captured on a dairy farm in Kerala, India, near to the Kottiyoor Wildlife Sanctuary.
The slithery reptile had tried to swallow a much larger green vine snake.
Sujith Wayanad, a snake rescue volunteer with the region's forest department, who was called to catch the snake, said: 'On spotting the snake, the frightened workers at Nila dairy farm, contacted the forest department who told me to rescue the snake.
'After reaching the spot, I found that the snake had ensconced itself in thick shrubs.
Lightning strikes killed as many as seven and left six others critical in different parts of Odisha on Friday.
People were struck dead in the Sohela area of Bargarh district, Basudevpur area of Bhadrak district, Soro area of Balasore district, Kolabira area of Jharsuguda, Bhandari Pokhari of Bhadrak, Bisra of Rourkela and Mahakalpada in Kendrapara district.
Similarly, as many as 11 cows died in lightning strike in Kundapatna village of Jajpur district.
Notably, on Thursday night also, one person died of lightning strike in Brahmagiri, Puri. The deceased has been identified as Brahmar Baral, who had gone to the village pond nearby when the wind was strong. While returning, he was struck by lightning.
The 2017 summer melt season in the Arctic has come to an early end, as now sea ice is gaining an additional 10,000 square kilometers over the last 3 days. Along with a report linking cold European winters with the 11 year solar cycle and freezing Rhine River in Germany, the last time it froze 1963, and this year Finland, Romania and Russia all broke July snow records, last records they eclipsed, you guessed it, 1963. Cycles repeat.
Barely 30 years ago, many researchers did not believe that upper atmospheric lightning existed-until 1989 when researchers from the University of Minnesota captured them on video tape. Now there is a menagerie of accepted forms: sprites, elves, gigantic jets, gnomes. These "transient luminous events" (TLEs) appear above thunderclouds, reaching toward space rather than lancing down to the ground like regular lightning.
On Aug.14th, Thomas Ashcraft may have spotted a new kind of sprite. "I was photographing a cluster of sprites over a thunderstorm in western Oklahoma when something curved snaked up behind the main cluster." This frame from his video of the event shows the strange form:
Comment: Some other transient luminous events (TLEs) so far this year include:
The Electric Universe model is clearly explained, with a lot more relevant information, in the book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.
Chang Kai-hsiang, Chung Hung-liang and Jake Chung Taipei Times Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:37 UTC
A Worker on a boat yesterday removes dead fish from the banks of the Keelung River in Taipei.
Large numbers of dead fish have washed up on the shores of the Keelung River from Zhongshan Bridge to Dazhi Bridge, probably because of consecutive days of high temperatures, the Taipei City Government said.
The city government said it expected to finish clearing the dead fish from the river today.
The Taipei Environmental Protection Bureau said that the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water near the dead fish was 3.5 milligrams per liter, which is about four to five times lower than normal.
The water temperature was 30.3oC, far higher than the average high temperature of 28.1oC in recent years, the bureau said.
A sinkhole measuring 20m in diameter has been found on reserve land in Waihi.
Hauraki District Council chief executive Langley Cavers said the sinkhole was found this morning on a council reserve between the Waihi Rugby Club and the Martha open pit mine.
Cavers said the site, known to be above historic mine workings, was classified as a hazard zone in 2002 and was cordoned off.
"While this is inconvenient, it is within an area where sinkholes could be expected."
Janene Pieters NL Times NL Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:56 UTC
Wednesday was a wet and rainy day for the Netherlands. According to Weeronline, between 40 and 45 millimeters of rain fell in the west of Zuid-Holland, the north of Noord-Holland and on the Wadden islands. That's about half of what is usual for the entire month of August.
By Wednesday night Leeuwarden had the most rain, with 52.2 millimeters measured. Places like Grouw and Stavoren also got over 50 millimeters of rain. "Locally the total rainfall can climb up to 60 mm by [Thursday] morning", the weather agency said on Wednesday night.
According to Het Parool, the heavy rainfall caused problems across the country. Places in Gelderland, Limburg and Noord-Brabant had to deal with flooded streets. And the rain also left lanes on the A10 near Sloterdijk underwater, causing a very busy evening rush hour in Amsterdam.
Comment: See also: Snake filmed regurgitating another after trying to swallow it WHOLE in Kerala, India
Snake regurgitating another live snake filmed in Newton, Texas