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Minke whale found dead in Blue Hill Bay, Maine

Henry Schulz
Mount Desert Islander
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:03 UTC
Area whale experts at a property in Tremont prepare to perform a necropsy on a minke whale found dead in Blue Hill Bay on Sunday
© Henry SchulzArea whale experts at a property in Tremont prepare to perform a necropsy on a minke whale found dead in Blue Hill Bay on Sunday
The stench of a decomposing minke whale assailed the nostrils of a crew working on a necropsy here Tuesday. The whale had been found floating dead in Blue Hill Bay on Sunday. It was not the same individual freed from entanglement with fishing gear a week before, researchers with Allied Whale at College of the Atlantic confirmed.

"We got a picture of the dorsal fins for both and went to the office yesterday and confirmed it wasn't the same," said Emma Ober of Allied Whale.

The whale was brought to the home of Dan DenDanto, a research associate for Allied Whale, for a necropsy. The COA research vessel Osprey towed the carcass to the Seal Cove docks Monday, where it was transferred to a trailer for transport to DenDanto's yard.

Volunteers made precise incisions in order to search for the cause of the animal's death. Oil flowed out of the minke whale's blubber like olive oil being poured into a sink. "The oil coming out is due to the internal pressure, and when cuts are made, it relieves the pressure, and that's why the oil flows out like that," DenDanto said.
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'It's very alarming': Another dead North Atlantic right whale discovered off Cape Cod; total now 13

Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon
CBC News
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:51 UTC
The dead whale has been identified as a reproductive female named Couplet, pictured here in 2003 with one of her calves.
© M. Zani/New England AquariumThe dead whale has been identified as a reproductive female named Couplet, pictured here in 2003 with one of her calves.
Another dead North Atlantic right whale has been spotted off Massachusetts, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths in North America this summer to at least 13.

The U.S. Coast Guard documented and reported the latest carcass on Monday, Jennifer Goebel, public affairs officer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Greater Atlantic region, confirmed on Wednesday.

The dead whale is currently floating in the southern Gulf of Maine, about 160 miles (about 258 kilometres) east of Cape Cod, she told CBC News.

This is the third dead North Atlantic right whale discovered in U.S. waters, said Goebel. The news comes just one week after another whale was found floating off Martha's Vineyard, the Massachusetts island south of Cape Cod.

Between 10 and 12 dead whales have been found in the Gulf of St. Lawrence since June 7. Preliminary necropsy reports suggest ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements as possible causes for the deaths. A final report is expected by mid-September, and will be made public.

Only about 500 North Atlantic right whales are left in the world, according to fisheries officials.
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Cloud Precipitation

Flood kills at least 57 in Bangladesh with over 3,326,000 affected

Abu Siddique
Dhaka Tribune
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:39 UTC
Desperate for help, a group of women and children at Hotathpara village in Fulchhari upazila, Gaibandha wade through chest-high water to get to relief workers on August 16, 2017.
© Focus BanglaDesperate for help, a group of women and children at Hotathpara village in Fulchhari upazila, Gaibandha wade through chest-high water to get to relief workers on August 16, 2017.
Around 3,326,864 people in 22 districts have been severely affected by the latest bout of flood that hit last week, their houses and croplands inundated

At least 57 people have died in 13 districts, as of 6pm on Wednesday, due to the monsoon flood that is currently plaguing the country's northern and northeastern regions, according to disaster management officials.

The highest number of deaths occurred in Dinajpur, where 23 people have died, while Kurigram has the second highest death toll - nine.

Some of the victims were swept away by floodwater, some died from snake bites and lightning and others were crushed when walls collapsed on them, said the officials.

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Rotten tomatoes: The real reasons Al Gore's new film "Truth to Power" flopped

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:34 UTC
al gore
Al Gores new Inconvenient Truth squeal Truth to Power, flopped at the box office because temperatures are now lower than when he won the Nobel Peach Prize, its snowing in Wyoming, its snowing in Colorado in July and August, record cold start to Britain's summer holidays in over 35 years, Denmark has had no summer which takes it back 38 years to find those temperatures, Australia broke a plethora of winter low temperature records and snowfall records and there is more sea ice now that 1972.


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Cloud Precipitation

Death toll from floods in Nepal climbs to 120 with about 6 million people affected


Firstpost
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:27 UTC
Nepali residents help each other cross a flooded road at Birgunj Parsa district
Nepali residents help each other cross a flooded road at Birgunj Parsa district
The death toll from widespread flooding and landslides in Nepal on Tuesday climbed to 120 with nearly 35 people still unaccounted for and over six million affected by incessant rainfall across the Himalayan country.

Most of the displaced, living in temporary shelters for the past three days, were yet to receive relief supplies in the flood-hit interior areas, the Kathmandu Post reported.

More than 2,800 houses have been completely destroyed.

Normal life in parts of Nepal has been hit and a large number of people have been displaced due to flooding and landslides.

Authorities recovered seven bodies from the "no man's land" near the flood-hit Biratnagar - Jogbani border with India today and the death toll has hit 120, Home Ministry sources said.

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Dead minke whale discovered off coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island

Michelle San Miguel
turnto10.com
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:06 UTC
The carcass of a minke whale was found off Narragansett, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017.
© WJARThe carcass of a minke whale was found off Narragansett, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017.
Environmental officials are trying to remove a dead whale off the Narragansett coast.

The carcass of a minke whale was first spotted on Monday near Hazard Rock.

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management is waiting for the high surf brought on by Hurricane Gert to subside before officials try to retrieve the carcass.

The whale is floating within a fishing trap. Sarah Callan, assistant stranding coordinator at Mystic Aquarium, said DEM told her that it is a legal, stationary fishing trap.

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Solar Flares

Ten spacecraft hit by massive solar flare, says ESA


RT
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 20:14 UTC
powerful solar eruption captured by SOHO
© ESA.int
The European Space Agency revealed that 10 satellites and probes were rocked by a massive solar flare as it swept through the solar system.

The space weather event, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), was observed by three satellites operating outside the path of the flare, namely ESA's Proba-2, the ESA-NASA joint project SOHO and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, in October 2014.

The ESA's Olivier Witasse had been leading the space agency's Mars Express, a project examining the effect of the comet Siding Spring on the atmosphere of the Red Planet. During the research, the team detected signs of the CME on Mars and, in the subsequent investigation, accessed data collected by the 10 spacecraft in its path.

"CME speeds with distance from the sun is not well understood, in particular in the outer Solar System,"said Witasse. "Thanks to the precise timings of numerous in situ measurements, we can better understand the process."
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Cloud Precipitation

Assam floods: Death toll increases by 39 in third wave; 123 killed to date with over 3,345,000 affected


Firstpost
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:55 UTC
flood
The flood situation in Assam continued to deteriorate with 11 more lives lost on Wednesday. Around 33.45 *lakh people in 24 districts of the state remained affected due to the flood.

With the deaths reported on Wednesday, the toll in the third wave of floods has gone up to 39 in the north-eastern state. The floods have claimed 123 lives so far this year in Assam, including eight in Guwahati.

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal left for Delhi on Wednesday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and apprise him of the preliminary damage caused by the third wave of floods.

According to a report by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), three persons died in Bongaigaon, two each in Dhubri, Nalbari, and Morigaon in flood-related incidents.

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Police record huge increase in dangerous dog offences in Kent, UK; from 16 in 2011 to 745 in 2016

Ellis Stephenson
Kent Online
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:06 UTC
Police recorded more than 700 offences involving dangerous dogs.
Police recorded more than 700 offences involving dangerous dogs.
There has been a huge rise in the number of dog attacks in Kent, with action taken against almost 750 owners last year alone.

Figures given to KentOnline following a Freedom of Information request reveal 745 offences were recorded of an owner or person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury in 2016 - a massive 46-fold increase in five years.

Two more offences were logged involving a person owning or being in charge of a dangerous dog that injured an assistance dog last year - one less than in 2015.

In contrast the total number of offences involving dangerous dogs logged in 2010 stood at 19, dropped to 16 in 2011, rose to 97 in 2012, jumped to 321 in 2013, reached 455 in 2014 and then 597 in 2015.

The statistics come as the owner of a dog who attacked nine-year-old Reggi Jarvis faces sentencing this week.

The youngster was bit by a Japanese Akita.

His mum Lecretia Barnes said: "The impact on our family was massive.
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Millions of animals dead as floods, algae blooms and disease takes it toll around the globe

Gary Walton
The Big Wobble
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:37 UTC
dead fish
10th August 2017 - 90 TONS of fish have died in fish farms in Vung Tau, Vietnam.

Nearly 90 metric tons of farm-raised fish in the southern province of Ba Ria- Vung Tau have been killed once again, leaving local residents with the heavy burden of loss and debt.

9th August 2017 - Hundreds dead Shearwater birds found washed up on Long Island beaches in New York, America.

Hundreds of great shearwaters have turned up dead on beaches on Long Island and southern New England this summer, and no one seems to know why. In addition to the birds on Block Island, birders and biologists have reported dead shearwaters on Rhode Island beaches in Tiverton and Charlestown.
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