Six people have been killed and 12 have gone missing after heavy rain triggered severe floods in Baishi Town in southwest China's Sichuan Province, local authorities said Sunday.
Cash Boyle The Guardian Sat, 16 Jul 2022 09:02 UTC
A woman has died after a dog attack in Rotherham which also left a man with potentially life-altering injuries.
South Yorkshire police were called to a property on Masefield Road in West Melton at about 10.15pm last night by a member of the public who said a dog had attacked him and a woman.
Officers attended alongside the Yorkshire ambulance service and found a 43-year-old woman had been fatally bitten. She was pronounced dead at the scene, despite the best efforts of emergency crews.
The man, aged 42, suffered a potentially life-changing injury to one hand, plus injuries to his other hand, abdomen and face. He was taken to hospital for further treatment.
Investigators say as the woman was trying to stay afloat, two alligators (like the one seen here) were seen swimming toward her and grabbing her before she could escape
An elderly woman was killed by two alligators after falling into a pond near her Florida home - with her panicked splashes attracting the predators who attacked her before she could swim out.
The woman, whose identity has not yet been released, was seen falling into an alligator-infested pond near her home at the Boca Royale Golf and Country Club in Englewood Friday night at around 7.47pm, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office.
Investigators say that as the woman was struggling to stay afloat, two alligators were seen swimming toward her.
They then grabbed her before she could escape.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and an investigation is now ongoing.
In the meantime, trappers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have removed the alligators from the pond.
But her death is just the latest in a recent string of alligator attacks in the southern United States.
Since July 10, at least 360 people have been killed in Spain due to a massive heatwave and thousands of individuals have been forced to flee southern France due to a wildfire allegedly sparked by a vehicle having mechanical issues.
The Carlos III Health Institute reported Friday that hundreds have died in Spain as temperatures have skyrocketed to 45 degrees Celsius - or 114 degrees Fahrenheit - in the region. The heatwave has also contributed to massive wildfires in several countries that have scorched thousands of acres of land. In southwest France alone, 12,000 people have been forced to flee to escape multiple blazes.
France's Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne blamed the fire in the La-Teste-de-Buch region on an electric vehicle that had some sort of issue near a wooden glen. The second ongoing wildfire in France is also being investigated for criminal activity.
"80% of the forest fires are estimated to have been started by humans," she told France's BFMTV News.
Fires ravaging remote mountain forests in northern Morocco have killed at least one person and forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 families, officials said on Friday.
Fanned by strong winds, the fires that broke out on Wednesday have destroyed 1,600 hectares (nearly 4,000 acres) of woodland in the provinces of Larache, Ouezzane, Taza and Tetouan, the authorities said.
"The body of a person suffering from multiple burns has been found" amid one of the blazes in the Larache region, the authorities said in a statement.
The 'climate brigade' have gone quiet re. Australia in recent weeks, focusing instead on a slither of summer heat gripping Western Europe and a perfectly ordinary 'heat dome' building in the Central U.S. — and that's because it's bloody freezing Down Under, unprecedentedly cold, in fact.
The middle of Australia is renowned for its scorching hot summers and year-round blue skies, not for its cold winters.
However, this year the region has been buffeted by rare Antarctic blasts and, as a result, is suffering its coldest spell ever.
The Northern Territory locale of Alice Springs has seen its thermometers sink below 0C (32F) for twelve consecutive mornings now, which, according to the Bureau of Meteorology - in books dating back 81 years - surpasses the previous longest streak of below-zero days set in July 1976 (solar minimum of cycle 19).
Spectacular waterspouts have been snapped on both sides of the Gulf of Finland during the stormy conditions of recent days.
Over the weekend, Madis Rehepapp, who is a member of the sea rescue association on the Estonian island of Muhu, spotted and photographed a waterspout at sea as he sat on his terrace at home, regional, Postimees-owned daily Saarte Hääl reports (link in Estonian). The phenomenon lasted 10 to 15 minutes, he said.
Meanwhile one person who was on the sea during the rough conditions over the weekend said that they had not experienced anything like it.
Alexis Cortez Azfamily.com Sat, 16 Jul 2022 13:02 UTC
Monsoon rain overflows washes in Flagstaff, creating muddy mess
A wild week of monsoon weather had floodwater roaring down the Pipeline Fire burn scar near Flagstaff on Thursday. Tim Holt with the Arizona Game and Fish Department filmed the muddy water surging down the burn scar on the San Francisco Peaks.
Holt was on the mountain helping with closures and said he knew where the flooding would be. "I saw the storm cell developing over the burn, the Pipeline Fire burn. I kinda knew what wash it would come down so I drove up there, into a safe location, so I could get good video while still being safe," said Holt.
Residents in South Jersey woke up to quite a sight Sunday morning.
A dead humpback whale roughly 25 feet long was discovered under the docks in North Wildwood.
Tom Roberts says he never expected to see or smell a large dead whale during his weekend trip to the shore.
"It was gross. It was like all decaying and big bites out of it," recalled Roberts.
"You usually don't come to work and see a whale sitting across the other side of the lagoon from you," added dockmaster Nick Otton, who was one of the first people to spot the massive whale.
