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Nevados de Chillán volcano
Nevados de Chillán volcano
The explosion sent ash and gas to an altitude 1700 meters above the main crater.
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The explosion sent ash and gas to an altitude 1700 meters above the main crater.
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Floods in Gakenke, Rwanda.
Floods in Gakenke, Rwanda.
The worst hit areas are the districts of Gakenke and Muhanga. As many as 34 people have died in Gakenke, 8 in Muhanga, 4 in Rubavu and 3 in Ngororero. Around 26 injuries have also been reported.
Reports from the Ministry for Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs say that over 500 houses have been completely destroyed, leaving thousands homeless.
The disaster comes just days before the country hosts the World Economic Forum on Africa, which will be held in Kigali from 11 to 13 May 2016.
In the national capital, it was a clear sky with the maximum temperature settling at 38.4 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the year. The minimum was recorded at 27.6 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season's average.
In Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district, which recorded 30 mm rainfall, three persons, including a 13-year-old boy, were killed by the thunderbolt at Katkamdag, Chharau, and Oreya villages, police said.
Palamau and Chaibasa recorded maximum of 41.6 and 41.5 degrees Celsius respectively even as several parts of the state experienced cloudy sky with temperatures between 35 and 39 degrees Celsius, the MeT officials in the state said.
Rajasthan's Phalodi town in Jodhpur district recorded the season's highest at 48 degrees Celsius due to which normal life was thrown out of gear.
Sizzling heat affected normal life in other parts of the state as well, particularly the western areas where Bikaner recorded 45.4 degrees Celsius. Churu, Jaisalmer, Barmer, Kota, Jaipur, and Ajmer registered a maximum of 44.8, 44.7, 44.4, 44.1, 42.9, and 42.6 degrees Celsius respectively.
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The Powers That Be tell us that that is all due to 'man-made global warming', and that the environmental chaos can be arrested or mitigated by implementing their judicious solutions.
But is that the real story here? How can paying carbon taxes or 'going green', for example, stop the cosmos from sending increasing numbers of meteor fireballs our way?
In the space of 24 hours last month, two major earthquakes on either side of the Pacific Ring of Fire killed several hundred people. The quake in Ecuador was followed by extreme rainfall, while the quake in southern Japan was followed by hundreds of tremors - and foam; lots of bizarre, white foam of unknown origin.
Here is just a selection of 'the signs' in April 2016, signs that the planet/cosmos/Living System is gearing up for a major 'reset'...
For example, just check out what is going on in Chile right now. The following comes from a Smithsonian Magazine article entitled "Why Are Chilean Beaches Covered With Dead Animals?"...
"It's waking up again. Not as bad as yesterday, but it's starting," says Flannigan, a professor of wildland fire and director of the Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science at the University of Alberta.
It's mid-morning on May 4, the day after more than 80,000 people fled the Fort McMurray area and the raging wildfire that has proved the most devastating to a populated settlement in Alberta history.
In the initial hours after the blaze reached the community's boundaries, the need for answers—some level of insight into the science of wildfires—is unrelenting. Flannigan figures he's already done 20 interviews with local, national and international journalists, with another 40 requests piling up, including some well into the evening.
"What's happening in Fort McMurray is unprecedented, but this isn't a one-off," Flannigan tells an Ontario-based reporter over the phone. There was Kelowna in 2003. Slave Lake in 2011. And now Fort McMurray. All communities devastated due to their proximity to tinder-dry wild areas.
"As long as we have these boreal forests—fire is part of the environment of the boreal forest; people live, work and play in the boreal forest—we will get this intersection between people and fire."
The Fort McMurray wildfire shows just how quickly and unpredictably a blaze can rage out of control.
Three members of a family- two women and an infant -were killed after a wild elephant raided Gendrapara village. (Representational Image)
Three members of a family -- two women and an infant -- were killed after a wild elephant raided Gendrapara village in the district late Friday night.
The local people took the bodies of the three deceased and blocked the National Highway number 37 demanding for action against the forest department and compensation to the victims' family.
Police had to resort to lathi charge to clear the highway.
Locals said that a wild elephant had been raiding the Gendrapara village and other adjacent areas for last few days.
"We have informed this to the forest officials. However, nothing was done by the forest department to chase the elephant away from human habitations," said one of the locals.
Source: Indo-Asian News Service
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Dr Timothy Mousseau has published more than 90 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals, related to the effects of radiation in natural populations (and more than 200 publications in total).
He has spent 16 years looking at the effects on wildlife and the ecosystem of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
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The two-headed cow is seen as a godly incarnation
The two-headed cow is seen as a godly incarnation
The calf is conjoined at the head, but shares the same lower body and was born at a farm near the Indian city of Udaipur.
Both the farmer and the vets called out to review the animal admitted they were baffled by its appearance.
"This is a unique case of one in a million," said local veterinarian Dr Sumit Kumar.
"The newborn has two heads. But the lower body is the same. In such a case, it is highly unlikely that the calf will survive for too long."
However, despite predictions the calves are appearing to be fit and healthy.
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Five people suffered minor injuries in one of the tornadoes, NWS Science and Operations officer Jeremy Martin told AP.
The twister travelled for about 15 kilometers on the ground, storm chasers said.
There was no immediate info on injury or damage from the other three confirmed tornadoes in the area.
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