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Woman killed in elephant attack, Nepal - 6th fatality in 10 weeks


ekantipur.com
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 13:10 UTC
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A woman has been killed at Chisapani of Banke district at 1 pm on Thursday after being attacked by an elephant. The deceased, identified as 32-year-old Sharmila Chaudhary, had gone to Shree Krishna Community Forest situated at Chisapani-4 to fetch fodder for her cattle.

The elephant attacked and killed Chaudhary while two other women who were with her managed to save their lives by running away.

On basis of the information provided by the women who saved their lives, police went for a search in the forest where they found the dead body of Chaudhary, said DSP Janak Shahi of Area Police Office, Kohalpur.

The dead body of woman has been sent to Bheri Zonal Hospital, Nepalgunj for post-mortem.

Comment: See also: Man killed in tusker attack in Nepal - 5th fatality in 2 months

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Two women attacked by a group of bears in India


The Times of India
Sun, 09 Nov 2014 12:42 UTC
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Panic gripped Kochdi village of Rampur subdivision in Shimla district on Friday after bears reportedly attacked two women who were collecting fodder for the cows. The seriously injured women were rushed to Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMCH) for treatment. They have been identified as Hema Devi and Heera Devi.

Hema Devi, who is also the panchayat member of village, sustained maximum injuries in the attack. According to official sources, it is a common practice for villagers to head towards forest areas to collect wood and fodder for domestic use during winter months. On Friday, Hema and Heera had gone to forest like any other day.
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Blast of arctic air via polar vortex to chill 42 U.S. states

Kristina Pydynowski
Accuweather
Sat, 08 Nov 2014 18:14 UTC
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As the polar vortex gets displaced to the south, the door will open for arctic air to plunge over the most of the United States as the new week progresses.

Only the Southwest, Hawaii, Alaska and South Florida will escape the grip of the upcoming arctic blast that the polar vortex can be blamed for.

"The polar vortex is a large pocket of very cold air, typically the coldest air in the Northern Hemisphere, which sits over the polar region," stated AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.

"Occasionally, this pocket of very cold air can get dislodged farther south than normal, leading to cold outbreaks in Canada and the U.S."

For this current outbreak, the harshest cold in relation to normal will encompass the northern Rockies and Plains. However, temperatures will also plummet throughout the Northwest and to the Gulf Coast and I-95 corridor.

The arctic blast will drop into the northern Rockies on Monday, accompanied by a snowstorm on its leading edge, then will spread across the Northwest and Plains through Wednesday.

Later in the week is when the cold will reach the I-95 corridor, but it will not be of the same magnitude as earlier in the week.

Many communities across the northern Rockies and Plains will experience a 20- to 40-degree drop in high temperatures from one day to the next.

Tuesday and Wednesday will prove to be the coldest days of the week across the northern Rockies and northern High Plains, where highs will be held to the teens with subzero lows.

Comment: The ice age cometh! See the first article in SOTT's Comets and Catastrophe Series:

Fire and Ice: The Day After Tomorrow

For more on what's really going on with the wild and crazy weather, read Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

You can listen to or read the transcript of the SOTT editor's interview with the authors here.

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Snowflake Cold

Swath of Winter storms extend from Turkey to Japan

Alex Sosnowski
Accuweather.com
Sun, 09 Nov 2014 01:57 UTC
While much of the tropical activity tends to diminish in the Northern Hemisphere during the winter, sometimes the western Pacific can remain active.
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"The cooler waters southeast of Asia will likely yield far less tropical activity in the western Pacific compared to last winter," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Jason Nicholls said.

Six of the eight named tropical systems struck the Philippines from November 2013 to February 2014. Super Typhoon Haiyan delivered a devastating blow to the Philippines in November.

Nicholls and AccuWeather Long Range Team expect no more than one named tropical system [tropical storms and typhoons] to directly affect the Philippines or to pass near Japan this winter.

Cold Air to Aim for Northeastern Areas

Cold air will make lunges toward the traditionally chilly winter locations of northeastern China and Manchuria.

According to Nicholls, "The most significant cold shots will occur during January and February but will tend to be brief."

By the end of the winter, the back-and-forth pattern should result in near-average temperatures from Beijing, China, to Seoul, South Korea.

Comparatively less frequent cold intrusions will result in above-average temperatures by the end of the three-month period from Shanghai and Hong Kong, China, to Tokyo, Japan.
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10-meter long dead whale cleared from Qatar's Al Huwaila beach

Lesley Walker
dohanews.co
Fri, 07 Nov 2014 20:27 UTC
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A 15-ton dead whale found on Al Huwaila beach in northern Qatar was removed by a government beach clean crew earlier this week.

Photographs posted by the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning (Baladiya) show the 10-meter long whale being lifted by a digger off the beach on Tuesday.

The ministry did not give any details of the type of whale or how they believed the mammal died.

A number of animals have been removed in recent years after washing up on Qatar's shoreline.

In September, a dead dolphin was removed from Al Wakrah port, while in March, a reader sent Doha News photos of a dead sea lion that remained out in the open for several days outside Al Khor.
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Snowflake Cold

Snow storms cause huge power outage in Ostrobothnia, Finland


Finland Times
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:06 UTC
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© Str / Lehtikuva.Power company workers are repairing electric poles to restore power supply in Pietarsaari area on Wednesday.
Mercury dives to below 25 °C in Utsijoki

Snow storm caused massive power outage in Pietarsaari region of Ostrobothnia on Wednesday morning.

More than 40,000 customers of the energy company Herrfors were left without power in Pietarsaari, Uusikaarlepyy, Vöyri, Oravais and Kruunupyy areas.

The power outage in the network happened at around half past six in the morning and lasted for about an hour.

Meanwhile, the lowest winter temperature was recorded in Utsijoki.

According to the Met Office, a temperature reading of minus 25 degrees Celsius was recorded at Kevojärvi in Utsijoki following a cold wave on Tuesday night.

On the other hand, abundant snow had fallen in Kainuu since Tuesday night. Snow accumulated to more than 20 centimetres in some places. Road conditions were hampered in some places in northern Ostrobothnia.
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Wolves return to Denmark for first time in 200 years

Justin Huggler
Daily Telegraph
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:58 UTC
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At least one male wolf has permanently settled in Jutland, Denmark, scientists say, in first case since 1813

Wolves have returned to Denmark for the first time in 200 years, according to researchers.

When wolves last roamed wild in Denmark, Napoleon was still terrorising Europe and the Battle of Waterloo had yet to be fought.

But now a team of researchers say they have conclusive evidence that wolves have re-established themselves in much of the Jutland peninsula, the part of Denmark that is in mainland Europe, and that at least one male wolf has permanently settled there.

There have been sporadic sightings of wolves in Jutland since 2012, but this is the first time scientists have officially confirmed their return.

A team of researchers from Aarhus University and the Danish National History Museum studied locations where wolf DNA was found and where wolves were photographed in the wild.
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Earthquake swarm in Nevada desert intensifying

Javier Panzar
The LA Times
Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:03 UTC
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A swarm of hundreds of earthquakes that has been striking a corner of the Nevada desert near the Oregon border for months has intensified in recent days, prompting new warnings from seismologists.

About 750 earthquakes, mostly magnitude 2.0 to 3.0, have struck the area about 50 miles southeast of Lakeview, Ore., since the swarm started in July, said Ian Madin, chief scientist for Oregon's Department of Geology and Mineral Industries.

The temblors have been growing steadily stronger with time. Six earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or greater have struck the area since Tuesday and about 40 have struck in the last 24 hours, Madin said.

"This week it has just gone crazy," Madin said.

The swarm is beneath an uninhabited part of the Nevada desert near the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, but officials are telling the public, especially the almost 2,300 residents of Lakeview, to develop earthquake plans if they haven't already.

"If you are not ready for an earthquake, now is an awfully good time to get ready for an earthquake," said Alison Ryan, a spokeswoman for the department.

Scientists believe groundwater is slowly percolating along the faults and building up pressure, making movement on the faults much easier, said John Vidale, director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the University of Washington.

Comment: For more on what's really going on with the increasing earth changes, their cosmic origins and humanity's role in them, read Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.
"While official science portrays the crazy weather, more frequent sinkholes, increased meteor fireball activity, and intensifying earthquakes as phenomena that are unrelated, research put together by Pierre and Laura strongly suggests that all this (and more!) is intimately connected and may stem from a common cause.

In times past, people understood that the human mind and states of collective human experience influence cosmic and earthly phenomena. How might today's 'wars and rumors of wars', global 'austerity measures', and the mass protest movements breaking out everywhere play into the climate 'changing'?"
You can listen to or read the transcript of the SOTT editor's interview with the authors here.

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New species of deep-sea coral discovered off California coast

Daniel Wallis
Reuters
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:22 UTC
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© APThis Sept. 6, 2014 photo released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a new species of deep-sea white coral found by NOAA researchers off the coast of Sonoma County, Calif. The research team also found a "highly unusual" nursery area for catsharks and skates in the underwater canyons close to the Gulf of Farallones and Cordell Bank national marine sanctuaries. The discoveries were made in September as part of the first intensive exploration of California's offshore areas north of Bodega Head.
U.S. scientists have discovered a new species of deep-sea coral and a nursery area for catsharks and skates in underwater canyons off the coast of Northern California, the researchers said.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Wednesday the team used technologies including small submersibles to investigate marine life that has adapted to survive in offshore waters up to 1,000 feet deep.

The team made two big discoveries off the Sonoma coast, it said, including hundreds of egg cases from skates, which are similar to rays, on the seafloor, and in bundles on the rocks surrounding a catshark nursery area.
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Mother and child killed in Ticino landslide, Switzerland


thelocal.ch
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:48 UTC
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© RSIWater cascades over retaining wall onto road in Locarno area of Ticino.
A landslide that swept a home away claimed the lives of a 31-year-old woman and her three-year-old daughter in the canton of Ticino, cantonal police said on Thursday.

The slide carried away the house in a heavily wooded area in Bombinasco at around 6.15pm, police said in a statement.

The victims, who were renting the home, were retrieved by searchers including a dog team, fire fighters and police officers, at 4.30am on Thursday, the statement said.

Police said the landslide occurred on a steep slope and wiped out the equivalent of 4,500 cubic metres of wood, mainly from chestnut trees.

Claudio Zali, cantonal minister of lands, said the area was not considered at risk for such an event.
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