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Los Angeles killer pit bulls euthanized...are dog attacks now an epidemic?

Phyllis M Daugherty
City Watch
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:33 UTC
PIT BULLS
ANIMAL WATCH-GM Brenda Barnette announced at the LA Animal Services' Commission meeting on March 14, that the two Pit Bulls impounded after the tragic attack which killed Valentin Herrera, 76, and his small dog last month have been euthanized.

Mr. Herrera and his 5-year-old Pomeranian were walking in the 2600 block of Lincoln Park Blvd. near his home on February 2, when two male Pit Bulls which had escaped from a nearby yard grabbed the tiny dog, "shredding his body like a piece of material," according to a neighbor. An eyewitness said that the owner of the Pit Bulls saw the dogs attacking but took no action to stop them.

When he tried to save his best friend, Mr. Herrera was also attacked, suffering severe injuries to his head and arms.

He underwent surgery but remained in a coma and never regained consciousness. According to a statement by a family member on their GoFundMe page to help with funeral expenses, "...after about 3 weeks of being in the hospital the doctors have told us that his brain is no longer functioning. The family and I have decided to let him go and rest, because we know he has been through so much."

Mr. Herrera died on February 28, just before a scheduled hearing on the attack by the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services on March 1.
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Two waterspouts filmed near Carmila, Australia


Yahoo! News
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:39 UTC
Waterspouts off Carmila
Two waterspouts were spotted near Carmila in Queensland on March 20. Severe thunderstorm warnings were in place for the area, according to local reports. Rain rates of up to 2.3 inches were also recorded in Queensland.

This video shows the waterspouts from a distance. The uploader told Storyful that the waterspouts "only lasted for a couple of minutes."


Source: Storyful News
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Blue Planet

The rusty patched bumble bee officially placed on endangered species list


RT
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:36 UTC
Bee pollinating
© Brendan McDermid / Reuters
The rusty patched bumble bee has been given the dubious honor of being the first bee to make the endangered species list. The bee, which was once a prominent feature of the Midwest, has lost 90 percent of its population, giving many cause for concern.

The rusty patched bumble bee on Tuesday became the first bee in the continental US to be placed on the endangered species list by the Department of the Interior. The bee's status was the result of a bureaucratic tug-of-war between the transfer of power from Barack Obama to President Trump.

The bee was initially proposed for the list in September 2016 after it was determined that in the past 20 years, the rusty patched bumble bee's population has decreased over 90 percent due to disease, pesticide, climate change and habitat loss, Reuters reported.
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Attention

Dead whale found near Port aux Basques, Canada


The Gulf News
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:55 UTC
A dead whale washed ashore near Port aux Basques on Friday and was carried out to sea by winds and tide later in the evening.
© Harold StricklandA dead whale washed ashore near Port aux Basques on Friday and was carried out to sea by winds and tide later in the evening.
A dead whale was spotted in the waters surrounding Port aux Basques on Friday morning.

The bloated carcass was carried out to sea by winds and tide until it disappeared from view sometime later that evening, according to local coast guard reports.

The species of whale is uncertain. It was estimated to be about 50-feet long.
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Attention

Dead baleen whale found at the mouth of Yangtze River in China

Zhang Ningning
Shanghai Daily
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 13:36 UTC
Fishermen were alarmed to see the creature had no head
Fishermen were alarmed to see the creature had no head
A dead whale, found at the mouth of Yangtze River by fishermen, will be preserved as a specimen.

The local agricultural commission said yesterday that the cause of death was still under investigation and dissection would take place.

The male baleen whale, some 22 meters in length, was missing its left fin and had been dead for more than 10 days, experts with Shanghai Ocean University and Shanghai Science and Technology Museum said after a preliminary study yesterday.

The body was highly decayed, they said. The remains were taken to a port in Pudong's Nanhui area on Monday.

"We first noticed the whale on Sunday afternoon," Lu Haibing, 59, captain of the boat that spotted the whale, told Shanghai Daily. "At first we thought it was an overthrown yacht and then realized it was body of a big creature."

Comment: See also: Stranded sperm whale with 'mouth full of garbage' dies in Guangdong, China

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5.5 magnitude earthquake shakes Bali, Indonesia


Globalnews.ca
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:12 UTC
Bali earthquake March 2017
© USGS
An earthquake has hit Indonesia's resort island of Bali, causing some panic among residents, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

The United States Geological Survey said the magnitude 5.5 earthquake that struck at 7:10 a.m. Wednesday was centred two kilometres northeast of Banjar Pasekan, a town in the southeastern part of Bali, at a depth of 118 kilometres.

Witnesses said many residents and tourists ran out of their homes and hotels toward higher ground, but the situation returned to normal after they received text messages saying the quake had no potential to trigger a tsunami.

The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency measured the earthquake at 6.4 magnitude but said it would not cause a tsunami because the epicenter was so deep.

Indonesia is prone to the seismic upheaval due to its location on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire. In December 2004, a massive earthquake off Sumatra island triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.
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Cloud Precipitation

Torrential rains continue to wreak havoc in Peru


euronews
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:09 UTC
Flooding in Peru March 2017
© YouTube/euronews (screen capture)
Heavy rains continue to wreak havoc in Peru.

The floods have claimed at least 78 lives and a state of emergency has been declared covering half of the country.

It is a result of record downpours which caused rivers to overflow, triggered landslides and left thousands homeless.

Climate experts say it is due to the 'coastal El Nino' phenomenon, with exceptionally warm water in the Pacific causing the torrential rains.

On Peru's northern coast, small villages have been totally cut off.

"Recently, I went to see my house which is bad, bad, bad. I lost all my things. I lost practically everything and that is why I was obliged to come here," said one woman displaced by the floods.

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IPCC forgets cloud circulation in Antarctica; vertical farming solutions

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:57 UTC
Ice ship
Antarctica still gaining ice, a look at where underwater volcanoes are melting sea ice and why the IPCC didn't take into account cloud circulation models when doing projections for the continent. Long term 37 year look at global ice concentrations look as they always have.

Aerofarms vertical farming using aeroponics for micro-greens.


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Cloud Precipitation

Floods in New South Wales, Australia after 500 mm (20 inches) of rain in a week

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:30 UTC
Ten staff and four students had to be rescued from a school in Shellharbour yesterday after it was flooded while a school bus got stranded in Albion Park
Ten staff and four students had to be rescued from a school in Shellharbour yesterday after it was flooded while a school bus got stranded in Albion Park
Some parts of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, have recorded over 500 mm of rain in the last 7 days as a low-pressure system drenched the region.

Over the weekend of 17 to 19 March, parts of the state's northeast and Mid North Coast were hardest hit. On 18 March, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said that 21 stations had recorded more than 100 mm of rain that day and Evans Head had recorded around 100 mm in just two hours.

According to BoM figures, New Italy recorded 506 mm, Mt Seaview 509 mm of rain in 7 days to 20 March 2017.

In an update of 18 March, NSW State Emergency Service (SES), said:
"The worst affected areas have been around the Mid-north Coast and southern areas of the North Coast. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, approximately 150mm of rain fell around the town of Yamba since midnight, which led to the short-term isolation of the town's 6000 residents."
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Flashback A sign? Men cut open an anaconda's belly and found - another anaconda

Andrew McDonald
Daily Star
Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC
anaconda cannibalism

A starving anaconda was found attacking one of its own after it struggled to find food in the jungle.

Three ramblers discovered the monster snake unconscious while enjoying a stroll with their pet dog.

And - despite the dangers - the trio decided to investigate what creature lay inside the creature's belly.

In terrifying footage - available above - the giant snake lies in sand and grass paralysed.

Hoping the killer creature is of no danger, one of the men approaches it with a large knife.
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