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Teenager is 48th victim of lightning this year in Cambodia

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
The Phnom Penh Post
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:22 UTC
LIGHTNING
A 14-year-old boy from Battambang was struck and killed by lightning in Sangke district on Tuesday afternoon as he was walking to tend to his parents' rice field with his three siblings, local authorities said yesterday.

Ran Saroeut, O'Dambang II commune police chief, identified the victim as Chhoem Phearun, from Tuol Lvieng village. "At the site, we found the boy's body with burn marks, and his hair was burned as well. The body was [laying] on its chest in the rice field," he said.

The death is the 48th this year, as of yesterday, said Keo Vy, spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management.

Of those victims, 14 were women. Forty-nine people have suffered nonfatal injuries from lightning strikes, while 50 head of cattle have been killed.
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From Japan to Germany, the world's newly-formed islands revealed

Sadie Whitelocks
Daily Mail
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:48 UTC
For more than a month an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean spewed ash and magma to the surface, and high into the air. This build-up created a new island, just off the coast of Tonga, in a region known as the Ring of Fire
For more than a month an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean spewed ash and magma to the surface, and high into the air. This build-up created a new island, just off the coast of Tonga, in a region known as the Ring of Fire
These newly-formed islands emerging from plumes of smoke and bubbling magma reveal how the earth's surface is constantly changing.

Over the past decade, several significant land masses have been confirmed, most recently a sandbar off the coast of North Carolina nicknamed Shelly Island.

Scroll down for some of the newest places making their marks on the map, with many more set to be discovered...

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Cloud Grey

Dramatic 'line of clouds' captured over Puget Sound, Washington

Scott Sistek
KOMO News
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:45 UTC
Line clouds over Puget Sound, WA
© Jerry Erickson
Tuesday evening not only brought a gorgeous sunset, but also a rather peculiar looking cloud that piqued the interest of several residents out enjoying the evening.
(Tuesday) night just before sunset at our house in Shoreline..., I noticed that there was this very dramatic line of clouds across the entire sky from west to east, with the sky covered in clouds to the south of the line," wrote Jerry Erickson. "To the north of the clouds it was clear. Later the cloud formation moved to the south. I have never seen something like this before with such a clean edge of clouds.
Indeed you can in photos the dramatic edge to the clouds. What was up?
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Sun

The sun is set to 'change form,' says NASA

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:35 UTC
solar minimum image
© NASA
During a solar minimum, certain types of activity, such as sunspots and solar flares will drop - but NASA also expects the development of long-lived phenomena including coronal holes.

The sun's magnetic field weakens during solar minimums, thus providing less shielding to the earth. With our protective shield thus weakened, the number of galactic cosmic rays that reach the earth's upper atmosphere increases.

The video is from NASA.

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Gift 3

Unique pink grasshopper seen in the Netherlands

Janene Pieters
NL Times
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:30 UTC
Pink grasshopper
© Natuurmonument/TwitterPink locust spotted in Oisterwijk, 27 Jun 2017.
Forester Wim Hoogstraaten from Oisterwijk almost couldn't believe his eyes when he spotted a bright pink grasshopper at the visitors' center of Natuurmonumenten in Oisterwijk on Tuesday. Luckily he got over his shock quickly enough to snap a picture.

Forester Frans Kapteijns describes the pink grasshopper as a "very special species", and very rare in the province of Noord-Brabant. "You mostly see them in limestone areas", he said to Omroep Brabant.

According to Natuurmonumenten, a nature conservation organization in the Netherlands, the pink color is very rare. The phenomenon is called erythrism, and is comparable to albinism in humans.
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Bizarro Earth

Two blasts off of Turkey's Çanakkale trigger earthquake panic


Hurriyet Daily
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:23 UTC
Turkey canakkale natural gas seabed leak
© Hasan Durmaz
Two natural blasts occurred around 75 meters off the coast of the Marmara province Çanakkale on June 28, prompting fear among locals that an earthquake was occurring, Doğan News Agency has reported. Footage of the incident, recorded by 47-year-old Hasan Durmaz, triggered debate among locals in Çanakkale's Ayvacık district. Geology professor Doğan Perinçek said the blasts were not signs of an earthquake, instead resulting from natural gas shooting out from the seabed.

"Today, two blasts and gas shootouts occurred in the Edremit strait, 75 meters off the coast and at a depth of 45 meters at 10:00 a.m. There was no earthquake reported. Small-size gas shootouts were previously witnessed by some locals after the Gülpınar earthquake," Perinçek wrote on his social media account.
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Bizarro Earth

Big One Coming? Northern California shaken by more than a dozen earthquakes


Sputnik
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:16 UTC
earthquake graph image
Northern Californians were rather surprised - and perhaps a little unnerved - when more than a dozen earthquakes shook the Sierra region in a single morning. At least 16 earthquakes were registered near the town of Truckee in Northern California, about 200 miles northeast of San Francisco. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the first temblor hit the area at about 2:00 a.m., while the strongest shake had a magnitude of 3.9.

"I literally felt a wave under the bed, and I sat straight up," one resident told CBS.

A group of UC Berkeley seismologists says that heavy rain and snow this winter has contributed to the earthquakes, which were centered in the Sierra mountains. They say the excessive mass of water and snow puts enough pressure on the mountains to make them move and flex as the water begins to run off and dry out, triggering the earthquakes. "These stress changes are just giving it that push over the edge, and makes these faults rupture earlier," said Christopher Johnson, a researcher at Berkeley's Seismology Lab.
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Global warming? "Lack of evidence" is a useful scientific finding

Michel de Rougemont
Watts Up With That
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:07 UTC
global warming heresy heretic global cooling ice age
Heretic? You're welcome!

Hysteric? Please cool down!

We hear that global warming is highly dependent on the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, this gas that is required to sustain life on Earth and that is also emitted when burning flammable stuff, such as wood, coal, mineral and organic oils, or methane.

If you are told "this depends on that", you are invited to examine available data observed over time to draw a representation of this on the y-axis vs. that on the x-axis.
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Cloud Precipitation

Downburst captured near Caorle, NE Italy (PHOTOS)


Sott.net
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:23 UTC
Caorle downburst
A downburst was captured in the vicinity of Caorle and Lignano Sabbiadoro in north-eastern Italy yesterday according to Meteo Web.

Downbursts are created by an area of significantly rain-cooled air that, after reaching ground level, spreads out in all directions producing strong winds. Dry downbursts are associated with thunderstorms with very little rain, while wet downbursts are created by thunderstorms with high amounts of rainfall.

Caorle downburst
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes claim 5 lives in Rajasthan, India


The Times of India
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:39 UTC
LIGHTNING
Two women were on Tuesday noon killed on the spot after lightning struck them while they were working in agriculture field at two separate places under Ghatoli police station in Jhalawar district. The bodies were handed over to the family members after post-mortem. On Monday too lightning claimed three lives including two women in Jhalawar and Baran districts of the region.

Twenty-six-year old Bhulibai Lodha, a resident of Prathvipura village was killed on the spot after lightning struck her on Tuesday noon while she was working in the field, said SHO Ghatoli police station, Sardar Khan. The woman was rushed to nearby government hospital where the doctors declared her brought dead, the SHO said.

In a similar incident, a 25-year-old woman identified as Prembai, a resident of Devkadar village under the same Ghatoli police station area was killed on the spot after lightning struck her while she was working in the field, said the SHO.

The bodies were handed over to the family members after post-mortem in the evening, he said.
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