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Snowboarder dies in avalanche in Poverty Gulch area, Colorado

Sydney Isenberg
The Denver Channel
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:59 UTC
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© San Miguel County Sheriff's Office
A 29-year-old Telluride man died in an avalanche in the Poverty Gulch area Thursday, according to the San Miguel County Sheriff's Office.

The avalanche happened south of Trout Lake, about five miles southwest of the town of Ophir, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC).

Around 3 p.m., Telluride Helitrax, a local heli-ski outfitter, was flying in the Trout Lake area and spotted evidence of an avalanche. The crew saw a single set of tracks going into the slide area but none coming out, the sheriff's office said.

A search and rescue mission was launched while Helitrax began an aerial beacon search. The sheriff's office said the Helitrax crew detected a signal and landed their helicopter. They then found a snowboarder who had been buried in the debris. He was under two meters of snow, according to the CAIC.


Comment: Colorado March snowstorm dumps up to 17 inches of snow

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Colorado March snowstorm dumps up to 17 inches of snow


The Denver Channel
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:13 UTC
Krashin Dr. Top of Shadow Mountain in Conifer at 8887ft.
© Susan RigleyKrashin Dr. Top of Shadow Mountain in Conifer at 8887ft.
The storm that has brought snow to much of the eastern half of Colorado Wednesday into Thursday has dropped more than a foot of snow in some areas, and light snow is expected to continue into Thursday afternoon.

The foothills have seen the most snow in this storm, while we've seen around 2-5 inches around the metro area.


Here are the latest snow totals reported to CoCoRaHS and the National Weather Service as of 12:30 p.m. Thursday:

1 W Aspen Springs - 17.4 inches
4 SSE Pinecliffe - 17 inches
Idaho Springs 4.7 SSE - 15.9 inches
4 ENE Nederland - 15 inches
1 NNW Genesee - 15 inches
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Snowfall grips Istanbul again, country under new cold wave


Hurriyet Daily News
Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:55 UTC
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A new cold wave has brought the country under its grip, disrupting life, forcing schools to close and provinces being issued weather alerts.

Some 17 out of Turkey's all 81 provinces have canceled in-person education until March 21 due to heavy snowfall, including Turkey's largest metropolis Istanbul, which has been hit by a third snow wave in the last three months.

The Turkish State Meteorological Service has declared a "yellow alert" for some 26 provinces and an "orange alert" for eight cities.

The temperatures will decrease by 2 to 5 degrees Celsius across the country at the weekend, the service said in a statement on March 18.

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Heavy March snow hits Beijing and many parts of China, triggering alerts for ice, fog


Xinhua
Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:34 UTC
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Beijing was hit by heavy snow on Friday, with blizzards in part of the capital, while the peak daytime temperature stood at just 2.5 degrees Celsius, the local meteorological authorities said.

The snowfall is expected to linger till midnight and visibility in most of the city could drop below 1,000 meters, said the Beijing Meteorological Service.

As of 6 p.m. Friday, the city had launched a blue alert for heavy snow, and yellow alerts for road icing and thick fog.

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Dozens of whales die in New Zealand stranding


Al Jazeera
Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:19 UTC
Dozens of pilot whales die at notorious New Zealand beach
Dozens of pilot whales die at notorious New Zealand beach.
Marine mammals die at Farewell Spit on the South Island, the site of at least 10 strandings in 15 years.

More than two dozen whales died in a mass stranding at a New Zealand beach, wildlife rangers have said.

The Department of Conservation said 29 long-finned pilot whales were already dead when the pod of 34 marine mammals was found at remote Farewell Spit on the South Island late on Thursday.

The department said it was attempting to refloat the remaining five whales with the morning's high tide.

"The process can take some time and we may not know if it is successful or not for several hours," it said on its Facebook page.

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Giant sinkhole opens up in the Arctic seafloor

Jenna Bryner
Live Science
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:37 UTC
Melting permafrost is causing parts of the seafloor to collapse.
Giant Sinkhole
© Eve Lundsten © 2022 MBARIRepeated surveys with MBARI's mapping AUVs revealed dramatic changes to seafloor bathymetry from the Arctic shelf edge in the Canadian Beaufort Sea. This sinkhole developed in just nine years.
Giant "sinkholes" — one of which could devour an entire city block holding six-story buildings — are appearing along the Arctic seafloor, as submerged permafrost thaws and disturbs the area, scientists have discovered.

But even though human-caused climate change is increasing the average temperatures in the Arctic, the thawing permafrost that's creating these sinkholes seems to have a different culprit — heated, slowly moving groundwater systems.

The Arctic permafrost at the bottom of the Canadian Beaufort Sea has been submerged for about 12,000 years, since the end of the last ice age, when meltwater from glaciers blanketed the region. Until now, the frozen seafloor had been hidden from scientists' peering eyes. This remote part of the Arctic has only recently become accessible to researchers on ships as climate change causes the sea ice to retreat, the researchers said.
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50 snow geese found dead in a field in Chihuahua, Mexico


Mexico News Daily
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:58 UTC
The dead geese after they were gathered by local authorities.
The dead geese after they were gathered by local authorities.
It's the second mysterious mass death of birds in the area this year

At least 50 dead snow geese were found in a Chihuahua field on Tuesday, the second unexplained mass death of migratory birds in the settlement in just over a month.

The field is located on Mennonite land in the Swift Current settlement in Álvaro Obregón, about 156 kilometers west of Chihuahua city.

Municipal police officers said the geese didn't bear any signs of injury or any wounds from firearms.
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Herdboys in narrow escape as lightning strike kills 4 cattle in Zimbabwe


Bulawayo24 News
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 11:22 UTC
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"We ran for our dear lives when we saw the sun falling down and suddenly our cattle were lying on the ground."

These are the words of 13-year-old Thabo Ndlovu after he and his friend Andrew Mpunzi cheated death when a bolt of lightning struck their herd of cattle in a bush in Chidobe outside Victoria Falls last Saturday.

The two boys are neighbours in BH34 and are in Form One at a local school.

They had gone to herd cattle in a bush near their village when it started raining in the afternoon before a bolt of lightning struck, killing three oxen and a heifer on the spot.

Three goats were also struck dead in a separate incident at almost the same time in neighbouring BH10 village when a bolt of lightning hit a pen and a homestead.
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1 missing after flash floods and landslides in Loja, Ecuador

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 10:09 UTC
Landslide in Loja, Ecuador, March 2022.
© SNGRELandslide in Loja, Ecuador, March 2022.
One person is reported missing after heavy rain caused flash floods and landslides in the Province of Loja in southern Ecuador.

Flooding struck in the city of Loja after a heavy downpour on 15 March. Streets in the city were flooded and several houses damaged. Emergency service ECU 911 Loja reported one person was missing after being swept away by flood waters. Teams from the military, National Risk and Emergency Management Service (SNGRE) and the Loja Fire Department are carrying out searches.

SNGRE also reported flooding and landslides in other areas of Loja Canton, including in Gualel where 2 buildings collapsed affecting 6 families.

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Best of the Web: 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits off north Japan, tsunami alert issued - Mag 6.4 aftershock - 2.2 million homes without electricity


ABC News
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:59 UTC
Japan earthquake 2022
© USGSA 7.3m earthquake was recorded off Japan's northeast coast March 16, 2022
A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan on Wednesday evening, triggering a tsunami advisory and plunging more than 2 million homes in the Tokyo area into darkness.

The region is part of northern Japan that was devastated by a deadly 9.0 quake and tsunami 11 years ago that also triggered nuclear plant meltdowns, spewing massive radiation that still makes some parts uninhabitable.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no longer a tsunami threat though the Japan Meteorological Agency kept its low risk advisory in place. NHK national television said tsunami waves of 20 centimeters (8 inches) already reached shore in Ishinomaki, about 390 kilometers (242 miles) northeast of Tokyo.

NHK footage showed broken walls of a department store building fell to the ground and shards of windows scattered on the street near the main train station in Fukushima city, about 60 kilometers (36 miles) west from the coastline.

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