Earth Changes
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A brown bear walks through a field at Katmai National Park on August 14, 2020 in King Salmon, Alaska. A man was mauled by a bear while backcountry skiing in Alaska last Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard has said. The type of bear involved was not immediately known.
A brown bear walks through a field at Katmai National Park on August 14, 2020 in King Salmon, Alaska. A man was mauled by a bear while backcountry skiing in Alaska last Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard has said. The type of bear involved was not immediately known.
The victim sustained injuries to his head and hands during the attack, which took place on a mountain near the Haines region. He was rescued by a specialist helicopter crew and flown to the capital city of Juneau, where emergency services were waiting.
Backcountry skiing, also called off-piste skiing, is "any type of skiing done outside the patrolled boundaries of a ski area," according to a fact-sheet published online by the outdoor adventure-focused business Recreational Equipment, Inc.
The worst log jam came on the A2 motorway outside Bielefeld, in North Rhine-Westphalia where an enormous 37 kilometre line of traffic built up on both sides of the road on Monday night. The queues stretched all the way into the state of Lower Saxony and had still not been cleared by Tuesday morning.
The A2 was blocked in both directions due to trucks coming to a standstill in the snow and not being able to get out. Police reported that hundreds of drivers had to spend the night in their cars.
Video footage showed shivering drivers huddled in their vehicles, complaining of going for hours without food as temperatures plunged to minus 12 degrees Celsius.
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Mockingbirds haven't been seen in the UK since the 1980s
Mockingbirds haven't been seen in the UK since the 1980s
Northern mockingbirds are the only mockingbird commonly found in North America. While they're predominantly a 'home bird', some may move south in the harsh winters - so been spotted as far away as Europe is a pretty huge feat. But now Chris Biddle, from Devon, claims to have made an incredible sighting at the weekend in Exmouth, Devon.
Posting images of the bird on Twitter, he questioned whether he had in fact spotted a northern mockingbird.
He wrote: "Spotted this little chap in our garden in Exmouth over the last few days, mainly in the holly and palm flowers. We think a northern mockingbird, any ideas?"
The sighting is the first record of mockingbirds being seen anywhere in Britain or the Western Palearctic in more than 30 years - and birdwatchers were delighted with the find.
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Some tree martin birds have survived and are being kept alive in incubators.
Some tree martin birds have survived and are being kept alive in incubators.
A low pressure system brought unseasonal cold temperatures and heavy rainfall to southern WA for several days from the weekend.
Parks and Wildlife conservation officer Ben Lullfitz said after the cold weather people had found dead tree martin birds from Augusta to Bunbury.
"It's a small bird which looks a bit like a swallow, basically they are insect feeders which don't like cold weather in the summer ... which has caused them to get into quite a bit of distress," he said.
Mr Lullfitz said the birds were unable to feed or regulate their body temperature during the cool conditions.
"We don't know how many exactly have died but it's been a widespread event," he said.
Morocco Floods
Flash floods struck in the city of Tangier on 08 February 2021, inundating streets and buildings including an illegal textile factory in a basement of house where over 40 workers were trapped.
As of late 08 February, state media reported the bodies of 28 of the workers had been found. Around 17 people have been rescued and transferred to hospital. A search was ongoing for more survivors.
Mouse populations have spiked over the past 12 months as crop-growing conditions have improved across rural Australia and provided the rodents with favourable conditions for eating and breeding.
Elevated mouse populations have been recorded from Central Queensland down to northern and central west NSW and into western Victoria.
In some areas, problems with mice have reached plague-level proportions.
CSIRO mouse researcher Steve Henry told AAP mice feast on the stubble of crops and reproduce roughly every three weeks once they reach six weeks old, making population control a near-impossible task.
Despite the thick blanket of snow in the area and the harsh weather, tourists were not stopped to visit the ice volcano formation. The frozen structure was formed from an underground spring that spouted water, freezing it once released.
Although this is not the first time an ice volcano formed in Almaty, as small ice volcanoes also formed last year, locals said that the recent ice volcano in the area is the first to continuously spout water from its top opening that mimics a lava-filled volcano. The continuous water spout has created a small ice rink near its base.
A local shared online that the area is usually covered with greenery during summer, but the iceberg increases to 14 meters and creates a picturesque location during winter.
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Pollen released by plants is also more intense than in 1990 in bad news for those with allergies, research in US and Canada finds
Pollen released by plants is also more intense than in 1990 in bad news for those with allergies, research in US and Canada finds
Comment: There's much more at stake than simply people's allergies: Spring arriving earlier across the US throwing wildlife into disarray
When species that depend on one another — such as pollinating insects and plants seeking pollination - don't respond similarly to changing conditions, populations suffer.
Rising global temperatures are helping lengthen the period of time, typically in spring, when pollen is released by plants, trees and grasses, according to the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Comment: Throughout the article they erroneously claim that this is solely due to 'warmer winters', but, if that was the case, then why have farmers been repeatedly losing their crops to unseasonable frosts?
In an analysis of 60 pollen-collecting stations across the US and Canada, the pollen season is now 20 days longer on average than it was in 1990. The season is also becoming more intense, with significantly larger quantities of pollen being detected.
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A mass of cold air arrived on Sunday, setting daily temperature records in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
According to Environment Canada, 22 cold-weather records were broken throughout the three provinces.
The coldest temperature was recorded in Uranium City, about 1,045 kilometres northwest of Regina, where it was -48.9 C, breaking a previous record of -40 C set in 2019.
In Alberta, the lowest temperature was recorded in Fort Chipewyan, about 710 km northeast of Edmonton, where it was -47.3 C, breaking the previous record of -45.6 C set in 1936.
Comment: The Guardian is clearly ideologically possessed with its erroneous claims of global warming, and their reporting is more often than not warped to fit an agenda, in doing so they blind themselves to what's really going on.
What we're seeing, at least in part, is a meandering jet stream causing extremes of weather; unseasonable warmth often followed by record cold. This year is a good example:
See also:
- Spring arriving earlier across the US throwing wildlife into disarray
- Flowers blooming early in UK and India
- Cyclical climate change: Major drought in the Middle Ages and its parallels with today
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