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Elephants have killed 204 people over 3 years in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh

Vishnukant Tiwari
NewsClick
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:05 UTC
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Mohitram Yadav, resident of Ongna village in Dharmajaigarh block of Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh, was attacked by an elephant at 3 am Wednesday while he was out answering nature's call.

After being alerted, the forest officials reached the spot, gave the family an instant relief of Rs 25,000, and told them the rest of the amount would be given post-completion of necessary formalities.

This is not the first case of elephant attack in the lush green forests of northern Chhattisgarh. Including Mohitram, at least eight people have succumbed to Jumbo-attacks, and two elephants have lost their lives due to electrocution in the Dharmajaigarh forest area alone this year.
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Two people hit by lightning on St. Pete Beach, Florida


fox13news.com
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 13:32 UTC
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Two people were hit by lightning on St. Pete Beach Thursday night.

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says a male and a female were walking on the beach when lightning struck.

St. Pete Beach Fire Chief Jim Kilpatrick said the pair, a 16-year-old and a 60-year-old, were behind the Tradewinds Island Grand Resort.

The male was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Deputies performed CPR on the female until emergency personnel arrived. She was taken to a hospital where she was stable Thursday night.
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200 dead shelduck found on beaches of Vlissingen, Netherlands


DutchNews
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:20 UTC
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At least 200 dead shelduck have been found on beaches on the Zeeland peninsula of Walcheren since Monday, local officials have confirmed.

The cause of the mass deaths has not yet been established and some of the cadavers have now been sent away for post mortem in an effort to find the cause.

Vlissingen council is urging people to find a dead duck not to touch it, and to keep dogs on a lead while walking on the beach.

The birds have all been found on beaches close to the port town.

Shelduck are a semi-terrestrial water fowl which eat small shore animals such as winkels and crabs, as well as grasses and other plants.
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Severe drought devastates Washington state's wheat crop

Nicholas Geranios
SF Gate
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:02 UTC
A combine transfers wheat into a grain truck, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, near Pullman, Wash.
© Ted S. Warren/APA combine transfers wheat into a grain truck, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, near Pullman, Wash.
The wheat harvest on Marci Green's farm doesn't usually begin until late August, but a severe drought stunted this year's crop and her crews finished harvesting last week because she didn't want what had grown so far to shrivel and die in the heat.

It's the same story across the wheat country of eastern Washington state, a vast expanse of seemingly endless stretches of flatlands with rolling hills along its edges that produces the nation's fourth largest wheat crop. It's been devastated by a drought the National Weather Service has classified as "exceptional" and the worst since 1977.

"This is definitely the worst crop year we have had since we started farming 35 years ago," said Green, whose family is the sixth generation on the same farming land just south of the city of Spokane.

She estimated her farm's wheat crop this year at half of normal, and of poor quality.

Green grows soft white winter wheat, a variety that is prized in Asian countries because it is excellent for making pastries, cakes, cookies and noodles.

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Wakkanai, northern Japan just recorded its coldest summer temperature in 128 years - 2 weeks after city hit one of its hottest temperatures ever

Walter Sim
The Straits Times
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:22 UTC
Hokkaido is Japan's northernmost island
© Shutterstock/Sean PavoneHokkaido is Japan's northernmost island.
Just days after Japan's northernmost island Hokkaido baked in record heat, an unseasonably cold snap saw temperatures plunging on Thursday (Aug 12) to among their lowest on record for the month.

At the same time, the island of Kyushu in the south-west is being pounded by a torrential deluge, with some areas encountering in a single day what is typically a full month's worth of precipitation for August.

These extreme weather patterns are raising concerns about the impact of climate change on Japan, where 7,943 people were admitted to hospital nationwide last week amid a scorching heatwave.

Two weeks after Wakkanai in Hokkaido set its highest temperature on record of 32.7 deg C on July 29, the mercury tumbled to just 2.6 deg C around dawn on Thursday - the city's lowest reading for August in 128 years.

Sapporo, some 300km to the south, was a cool 13.9 deg C on Thursday morning, compared with the 26 deg C recorded at 7am on Sunday, when the Olympic men's marathon event flagged off. A combination of the heat and brutal humidity led 30 out of the 106 competitors to pull out.
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Prolonged drought in Brazil threatening Paraná River

Joel Richards
CGTN
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:39 UTC
People who live in the fishing village of Espinillo
© AP/Victor CaivanoPeople who live in the fishing village of Espinillo Island walk their goods across the Old Parana River delta now that boats can't reach their community and others, amid a drought that turned the river into a sand bank, across the river from Rosario, Argentina, Thursday, July 29, 2021.
One of South America's longest rivers is at its lowest level in living memory.

The Paraná ​River runs through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

Prolonged drought in southern Brazil is one reason it is at its lowest level since 1944.

Many of the river's tributaries have all but dried up.

Local communities are feeling the effects of the falling water levels firsthand.

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Flood in north Nigeria kills 5 people

huaxia
Xinhua
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:59 UTC
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Flood triggered by a severe downpour on Tuesday in northeast Nigeria's Bauchi state killed five people and damaged 1,567 houses, an official said on Thursday.

According to Samaila Jarma, council chairman of Jama'are town in Bauchi, the flood from a local river was triggered by several hours of heavy rain on Tuesday, which damaged houses, farmlands and crops in seven villages of the area.

"We recovered five corpses from the water in submerged areas," he told reporters in a press briefing in Jama'are area, adding the bodies were buried in accordance with local tradition following a thorough investigation to establish their identity.

Jarma said the town council has also formed a committee to examine the damage and recommend appropriate measures to the state government.

Nigerian authorities had in May issued an alert to 28 out of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory in the country, warning of severe flooding this year.

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Flood death toll hits 21 with heavy downpours affecting over 286,000 in Hubei, China - Almost 20 inches of rain in just 12 hours

ShanghaiEye
YouTube
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:08 UTC
Rescuers evacuate a child from a flooded area after heavy rains in Suizhou, in China's central Hubei province
© AFPRescuers evacuate a child from a flooded area after heavy rains in Suizhou, in China's central Hubei province
21 killed and four reported missing after heavy downpours hit a township in central China's Hubei where Wuhan is the provincial capital city.

More than 8,000 residents have been affected and over 2,700 houses damaged.

Bad weather also destroyed 11.3 kilometers of roads, 63 bridges and 725 power and communication poles.

The township saw total precipitation reaching 503 millimeters in 12 hours causing an average waterlogging depth of 3.5 meters.

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Lightning strike caught on camera in Silver Spring, Maryland


fox5dc.com
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:52 UTC
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A lightning strike in Silver Spring was caught on camera Wednesday as severe weather hammered the D.C. area.

A Penwood Road resident provided FOX 5 with the video from her Nest camera.

Severe thunderstorms have pummeled the D.C. region throughout the week - felling tree, sparking fires, and prompting power outages in some areas.

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21 goats struck dead by lightning in Tamil Nadu, India


The Hindu
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:33 UTC
Lightning
Twenty one goats were struck dead by lightning in a pen at Gopalapuram near T. Kallupatti on Wednesday evening.

Police said that C. Marichamy and K. Selvam had put up the pen for the goats on the farm of one Karuppasamy. When it started raining on Wednesday evening, lightning struck and all the 21 goats were electrocuted and died on the spot.
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