Earth Changes
Elias Agas, 46, was working at the £4.8 million site on Rinca Island when the 90kg beast "tore several parts of his body".
He was then frantically whizzed off the island by speedboat to a nearby hospital as the bite from a Komodo can be deadly if not treated quickly.
Staff at the park claim that they responded immediately to the incident when they heard what had happened.
The park's head of security Julius Buki told local media: "Upon receiving this information, fellow rangers ... were at the location immediately [and] managed to evacuate the victim."
The storm caused floods and landslides in cities in the Itajaí Valley. Until around 10 am, 20 people were missing.
There are also damage caused by rain in Greater Florianópolis and in the West of the State.
Access to Presidente Getúlio, a city with 14 thousand inhabitants and is about 80 kilometers from Blumenau, is blocked due to landslides.
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General secretary of All Khasi Hills Achik Federation (AKHAF), John D Sangma, informed that the incident took place on Sunday around 7:30 pm when a herd of seven wild elephants attacked the village and levelled the houses.
However, no one sustained injuries during the course of the incident as some vigilant villagers were quick to shoo the elephants away.
Sangma said that due to the presence of seven wild elephants at a place just a kilometre away from Kalapahar village, the locals are apprehensive of another possible elephant attack.
Deadly "brain-eating amoeba" infections have historically occurred in the Southern United States. But cases have been appearing farther north in recent years, likely because of climate change, a new study finds.
The study researchers, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), examined cases of this brain-eating amoeba, known as Naegleria fowleri, over a four-decade period in the U.S. They found that, although the number of cases that occur each year has remained about the same, the geographic range of these cases has been shifting northward, with more cases popping up in Midwestern states than before.

A man clears snow as snow falls near Bryant park in Manhattan, New York City Wednesday.
"Isn't it ironic that the US Northeast, home to so many AGW academic radicals, is being chastened by reality?"Tens of millions of Americans in Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states were blanketed with more snow in one dump than during the entire 2019-2020 season.
- Bill Sellers
Large parts of the eastern United States woke this morning to more than 3 feet of snow as a major winter storm hit parts of New York and Pennsylvania, led to hundreds of accidents and travel disruptions, airport delays, power outages, and left at least four people dead.
Prime minister Yoshihide Suga called an emergency cabinet meeting and urged the public to be cautious, as local media reported more than 1,000 cars were stranded on an expressway connecting Tokyo to Niigata in the north.
Over 72 hours, a record 2.17 metres of snow fell in Minakami, Gunma prefecture, reports said, while Yuzawa in Niigata prefecture — famous for skiing — got a record 1.8 metres of snow on Thursday morning.
NWS meteorologist Jenna Lake said at about 8 p.m. Wednesday that the city has seen about 5 inches of snow so far, shattering the 1.9 inch record set on this day in 1890.
The area surrounding Pittsburgh has seen a few inches more, about 7 to 7.5 inches, because the city tends to be warmer, Ms. Lake said.
Ms. Lake also said that an additional 1-2 inches is expected from 8 p.m. until about midnight.
Staff at 49 North Helicopters, located in Campbell River on Vancouver Island, said they heard about an "unusual amount of wood" floating in Bute Inlet on the weekend.
They decided to fly up the inlet, on B.C.'s central coast, to the Southgate River where they filmed miles and miles of water, mud and floating debris.
Brent Ward, from the Department of Earth Sciences and a member of the Centre for National Hazards Research at Simon Fraser University, said it appears to have been a glacial lake outburst flood that occurred at Elliot Creek just east of the head of Bute Inlet.
"As of 7 a.m. on December 16, bad weather conditions (wet snow, wind gusts) on December 15 into December 16 caused blackouts in 120 populated areas, reads the report.
Emergency teams of regional power distribution companies have started to conduct needed repairs to resume electricity supply.
As reported on December 15, bad weather left 234 towns and villages in 3 regions of Ukraine without electricity: Chernihiv region 204, Sumy region 23, and Kyiv region 7.














Comment: SOTT has been tracking the rise in unusual infections and diseases for many years now, and it's possible that our changing climate is but one contributing factor: