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At least 12 eagles amongst birds killed by hunters in Malta


wildlifeextra.com
Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:46 UTC
Death toll mounts as eagle massacre continues
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Short-toed Eagle in Buskett on Malta

The confirmed body count of eagles shot down by hunters in Malta and Gozo reached 12 in the last few days, after two more of these rare and highly protected birds of prey were killed in front of watching BirdLife Malta volunteers.

Despite the presence of six BirdLife Malta teams and as many ALE (Maltese Environment Police) units in the Buskett area this morning at least one Booted eagle was shot down inside Buskett Gardens as it left its roost this morning. Several others, including Short-toed and Booted eagles, were shot at and many more were seen carrying injuries after last night's shooting spree by hunters in Dingli, Buskett, Girgenti, Siġġiewi and Zebbuġ.

This morning's second confirmed victim was a Short-toed eagle shot down in Gozo.

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Attention

Update: Fukushima tsunami alert after 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of Japan

Rob Williams
The Independent, UK
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:37 UTC
Japan's Meteorological Agency raised a 1-meter (3-foot) tsunami warning for a long stretch of Japan's northeastern coast, including Fukushima

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An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 has struck off the coast of Japan prompting emergency services to issue a tsunami advisory for the Fukushima area.

Japan's Meteorological Agency raised a 1-meter (3-foot) tsunami warning for a long stretch of Japan's northeastern coast, including Fukushima. The US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not post warnings for the rest of the Pacific.

There were no initial reports of damage on land, although the AFP agency cited reports saying that workers had been evacuated from the stricken nuclear power plant.

Comment: RT.com is now reporting that the earthquake's magnitude was recorded at 7.3

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Ice Cube

A new record: The most sea ice in Antarctica in 30 years by extent and by volume

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:05 UTC
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© Stefan Hendricks, AWI
Polaris in the polar night of the Antarctic winter
Translated by Google from this press release in German at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany:

Never so much sea ice at Antarctica in the last 30 years

In light of global warming, it seems paradoxical that the sea ice cover of the Southern Ocean has covered a larger area in the past month than in the last decades. Only in the mid-70s was observed a similar expansion.

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Average sea ice extent in September (1973-2013) with trend line

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Seasonal variability of sea ice extent (as at 13.10.2013)
The means were 19.48 million in September 2013 square kilometers, an area once covered more than 50 times larger than Germany with sea ice. The absolute maximum of 19.65 million square kilometers was reached on 18 of September. Although this maximum in the ice-covered surface can not be equated with a maximum of the total volume or mass, suggest that sea ice physicist Marcel Nicolaus and Stefan Hendricks from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) "This winter there is in Antarctica as much ice as long gone, if it has ever been since the beginning of the regular satellite observations ever so much sea ice."
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 7.3 - Off the east coast of Honshu, Japan


US Geological Survey
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:27 UTC
Honshu Quake_251013
© USGS
Event Time
2013-10-25 17:10:16 UTC
2013-10-26 03:10:16 UTC+10:00 at epicenter

Location
37.194°N 144.663°E depth=10.0km (6.2mi)

Nearby Cities
325km (202mi) ESE of Ishinomaki, Japan
326km (203mi) E of Namie, Japan
331km (206mi) SE of Ofunato, Japan
333km (207mi) ESE of Yamoto, Japan
475km (295mi) ENE of Tokyo, Japan

Technical Details
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Igloo

Record daily snowfall set in Dayton, Ohio

Frazier Smith
Dayton Daily News
Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:32 UTC
Record Snowfall in Dayton
© Dayton Daily News/Storm Center 7
A record daily snowfall was set at Dayton International Airport on Wednesday, Storm Center 7 Meteorologist McCall Vrydaghs said Wednesday evening.

The airport recorded 1 inch of snow, which breaks the previous record of 0.2 inches set in 1917. This is not the earliest snowfall of an inch or more, she said. That record was set Oct. 19, 1989, with a total of 4.8 inches. A dusting or coating of snow had been forecast for the early morning.

The record snowfall comes in advance of a freeze warning for the area that begins at 2 a.m. Thursday and ends at 10 a.m.

Stray rain or snow showers are possible by morning, she said, with a high in the mid 40s. At times, it will feel as though the temperatures are in the upper 30s because of afternoon winds that are expected to reach 10 to 15 mph.

Friday morning will be frosty, Vrydaghs said, and temperatures will plunge to their lowest marks in months.
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Bizarro Earth

Researchers alarmed by 'puzzling' changes in resident orcas


The Canadian Press
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:27 UTC
Orcas
© The Canadian Press
Researchers from the Vancouver Aquarium say they are puzzled over observed changes in a pod of resident Orcas in the Salish Sea, such the unusual death of seven matriarchs in the past two years and a lack of vocalizations between whales.
A Vancouver Aquarium whale researcher is sounding the alarm over "puzzling" changes observed in the resident killer whale pods that live off the northern coast of B.C. and Alaska.

Dr. Lance Barrett-Lennard, a senior marine mammal scientist with the aquarium, says he fears changes in the ocean environment are prompting odd behaviour and an unusually high mortality rate, after spending the summer observing the whales aboard a research vessel.

Barrett-Lennard says one resident pod has lost seven matriarchs over the past two years, an unusually high death rate, and he's also noticed a lack of vocalizations from the normally chatty mammals.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.7 - East of the South Sandwich Islands.


US Geological Survey
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:34 UTC
South Sandwich Island Quake_241013
© USGS
Event Time
2013-10-24 19:25:12 UTC
2013-10-24 18:25:12 UTC-01:00 at epicenter

Location
58.240°S 12.943°W depth=30.1km (18.7mi)

Nearby Cities
791km (492mi) E of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands
3331km (2070mi) ESE of Ushuaia, Argentina
3561km (2213mi) SSW of Hermanus, South Africa
3565km (2215mi) SSW of Claremont, South Africa
2907km (1806mi) ESE of Stanley, Falkland Islands

Technical Details
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Snowflake

U.S. Midwest's first October snowfall since 1980 leaves thousands without power

Brittany Lewis
wqad.com
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:00 UTC
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Lights out. No green, yellow, or red. The Checker's drive thru in East Moline was also dark."It's been a pretty slow day. We lost power around 11:30, noon," said Stacie Vandyke, Shift Supervisor at Checker's. At the peak of the outage, more than 4,000 MidAmerican customers were in the dark. Camanche, Iowa and East Moline, Illinois were hit the hardest. East Moline Schools dismissed students at the Blackhawk Area Education Center because of the outage.

MidAmerican Energy says 100 different incidents of trees hitting or downing power lines caused the outages. And then there was thick, dense fog. White snowflakes were visible, but not much else. The Moline Fire Department rescued two men aboard the Marsh Barge when their sailboat was stranded on a lateral dam on the Mississippi.

"We just couldn't see anything," said Conner Morton.The visibility was so poor, the boaters - traveling from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico - needed a flare to help rescuers find them.

Check out photos from the October snow - click here.
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Black Cat

Bobcat attacks hunters near Prescott Valley, Arizona, tests positive for rabies

Heidi Dahms Foster
bigbugnews.com
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:47 UTC
A bobcat that attacked two quail hunters Thursday afternoon near Prescott Valley has tested positive for rabies, Yavapai County Health officials said Friday afternoon.

Arizona Game and Fish Public Information Officer Zen Mocarski reported that the two hunters suffered multiple injuries when an adult male bobcat attacked them after they stopped to open a gate while hunting near Coyote Springs subdivision.
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© Arizona Game and Fish
A bobcat like this one attacked two hunters near Prescott Valley Thursday afternoon. It later tested positive for rabies.

The men spotted the bobcat under some bushes, and saw it run under their truck. When one of them looked underneath the truck, the bobcat attacked, causing deep lacerations, punctures, and scratches to the man's back, shoulders, arms, and chest, Mocarski said. The man's hunting companion tried to rescue him, and the animal also attacked him, causing less severe injuries. One of the men then shot and killed the bobcat.

The two drove to Yavapai Regional Medical Center with the bobcat. Mocarski said hospital personnel immediately treated both men for exposure to rabies. A Game and Fish wildlife manager picked up the bobcat and took it to the Arizona State Public Health Laboratory for testing. Results released about 4:30 p.m. Friday showed the animal was rabid.
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Bizarro Earth

Ash explosion at Indonesia's Mount Sinabung

Becky Oskin
LiveScience
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:24 UTC
Mount Sinabung
© YouTube
A still from a video showing the ongoing ash eruption at Indonesia's Mount Sinabung.
A powerful ash eruption shot 2 miles (3 kilometers) into the air at Indonesia's Mount Sinabung on Thursday (Oct. 24), according to news reports. There were no injuries or damage, but authorities evacuated 3,300 people living near the volcano as thick ash fell across the region. There are 29 villages within a 4-mile (6 km) radius of Mount Sinabung.

The volcano awoke last month after a three-year sleep, sparking forest fires and jetting ash and volcanic gas. The 8,530-foot-high (2,600 meter) peak is one of 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia. Mount Sinabung erupted in 2010 after a 400-year period of inactivity. More than 17,500 people were evacuated at the time.
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