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Attention

Bee imports dying too

Kim Landers
ABC Australia
Mon, 07 May 2007 06:57 UTC
Research in the US has found that something is attacking the local bees' immune system, rendering the bees vulnerable to any contagion. Australian bees have been coming to the rescue, trying to make up the numbers to pollinate many of America's crops.

But now the new arrivals are also dying, as North America Correspondent Kim Landers reports.
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Bizarro Earth

Earthquake swarm strikes Yellowstone


Independent Record
Mon, 07 May 2007 06:48 UTC
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - Sixteen small earthquakes with magnitudes up to 2.7 shook the park's Pitchstone Plateau last week.

Comment: For background information on Yellowstone earthquake swarms visit this site.

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Cloud Lightning

Second wave of tornadoes rakes Plains


CNN
Mon, 07 May 2007 06:42 UTC
Tornadoes tore across the nation's midsection for a second night Saturday, 24 hours after a storm leveled Greensburg, Kansas.
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Cloud Lightning

Tornado snatches 1,000 pound pallasite meteorite


KWCH
Mon, 07 May 2007 06:31 UTC
GREENSBURG, Kan. The tornado that razed the Kansas town of Greensburg also snatched one of its most valuable treasures. The thousand-pound Brenham pallasite meteorite is gone.
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Red Flag

Damage Control: Internet abuzz with bee rumors

Seth Borenstein
Associated Press
Fri, 04 May 2007 18:07 UTC
The answer to what happened to America's vanishing honeybees is simple, a caller told entomologist May Berenbaum: bee rapture. They were called away to heaven.

No, wait, it's Earth's magnetic field, another caller told the University of Illinois professor.

Comment: Don't worry, its all a joke, you can poke fun at it!
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Attention

Flashback U.S. Navy Sonar May Harm Killer Whales, Expert Says

John Pickrell
National Geographic
Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:25 UTC
Since 1976, whale expert Ken Balcomb has led what is perhaps the longest running study on killer whales, or orcas (Orcinus orca).

Most days, the research biologist studies orcas from the Center for Whale Research in Friday Harbor, Washington, and from his home porch perched above Puget Sound, where the animals hunt and play in summer months.

But one day last May, Balcomb and whale-watchers along the coast observed something they had never seen before. "I first heard reports from whale-watchers that orcas where behaving very unusually," Balcomb recalled. "One pod had gathered in a tight group and were moving close to shore."

Balcomb confirmed at the time that strange underwater pinging noises detected with underwater microphones were sonar. The sound originated from a U.S. Navy frigate 12 miles (19 kilometers) distant, Balcomb said. The vessel eventually moved within 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) of Puget Sound.
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Bomb

Video: Killer Whales Blasted by U.S. Navy Sonar


National Geographic
Sun, 06 May 2007 15:16 UTC
Click here to watch the video.

When the killer whales of Washington State's Puget Sound began vanishing, a biologist had to get an earful from the U.S. Navy to pick up clues to the mystery (Washington map).

Using supersensitive microphones, Ken Balcomb has been eavesdropping on the region's resident killer whales, also known as orcas. Unlike their transient brethren, these animals spend their entire lives in the sound.

But Balcomb's years of research unveiled a disturbing trend: Mature orcas were disappearing in the prime of their lives, and no one knew why.
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Red Flag

Bearded seal strays from Arctic to Florida


UPI
Sat, 05 May 2007 15:09 UTC
Experts are trying to capture a bearded seal that strayed into Florida's Intracoastal Waterway, hundreds of miles from its Arctic home.

©JOE RIMKUS JR/MIAMI HERALD STAFF
An emaciated bearded Artic seal in the Tarpon River in Ft. Lauderdale off Rose Drive tries to look over the seawall at an ice bed put down to entice it to stay in the area.
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Ambulance

B.C.'s bee population reduced by 25 per cent

John Bermingham
The Province
Sun, 06 May 2007 15:04 UTC
CROP POLLINATION: Experts struggle to explain why numbers down.
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Cloud Lightning

More Tornadoes Hit The Midwest


MSNBC
Sun, 06 May 2007 12:44 UTC
Weekend storms that swept through Kansas claimed the life of a 10th person, the Kansas Emergency Management Agency said Sunday.

The National Weather Service said Sunday that more than a dozen new tornadoes have been reported in the area where the tornado caused its heavy damage Friday.

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