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Tiger kills 15th person this year in Pilibhit, India

Keshav Agrawal
The Times of India
Sun, 01 Oct 2017 19:23 UTC
TIGER
On the opening day of Wildlife Week on Sunday, when officials of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, social forestry and WWF were busy discussing the growing threat of tiger attacks in the region, a Khargapur village resident was mauled to death by a big cat.

Officials said that the area where the attack took place comes under Neuria police jurisdiction and is around 300 meters from Mahof forest range of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve. The man was mowing grass in an agricultural field along with others when he was attacked.

Khargapur village pradhan Harjit Singh said that while sub-divisional magistrate Poornima Singh rushed to the spot along with police force to review the situation, no one from forest department bothered to pay a visit. "The tiger was apparently in a nearby field when Bablu and a few others were cutting grass. The attack was so quick and sudden that the villagers present there didn't get a chance to rescue Bablu. The animal then disappeared through cropped fields of sugarcane," he said.
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Boy killed by bear in Kaghan, Pakistan


The Express Tribune
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:07 UTC
bear print
An 18-year-old boy Muhammad Yousuf was mauled and killed by a bear while coming back home with his herd of goats and sheep from jungle of Kund Bangla. According to village people, Muhammad Yousuf Noor while returning home in the evening with a herd of goats was attacked by a wild bear.

The nearby people rushed towards the spot after hearing the growls of the bear and the cries of the boy and witnessed the boy being thrown into a ravine.

Noor died on the spot. Bear encounters are not common in the area whereas leopard and wolfs attack has been witnessed in the past. The residents of Kund Salbori were unclear that what prompted the bear to attack.
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Bear mauls elderly man to death in Bandipora, India

Ejaz-Ul-Haq Bhat
Greater Kashmir
Sun, 01 Oct 2017 18:58 UTC
bear print
An elderly man was mauled to death in a bear attack in Chichinar village of Aloosa locality in Bandipora district on Saturday morning.

An official said that Nazir Ahmad Chauhan, 75 son of Umer din Chauhan a resident Chichinar was attacked by a bear early morning outside his home.

"He died on the spot after being attacked by the bear," he said. Meanwhile, PDP General Secretary Nizam-ud-din Bhat visited ChichinarGujjar Patti to express sympathies with the victim family and demanded compensation from the wildlife department to the family.

He said that wildlife department should be made active in Bandipora because there are such threats to lives of human beings and animals in several areas of Bandipora like Tanghat, Panar, Sumlar, Ajas, Malangam, Binlipora, Kudara, Doban and Chuntimulla.
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Incredible aurora phenomenon captured over Washington and Alberta

Scott Sistek
KOMO News (blog)
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:34 UTC
© JB Hawkins Photography
A photo of "Steve" as seen from Darrington, Wash. on Sept. 27, 2017
Getting to see a brilliant display of the Northern Lights is pretty rare around Washington, but Tuesday night's display brought something even less common: A Steve sighting.

No, not the name of the photographers trying to capture the event (although I'm sure there were a few) but it's what citizen researchers have named a type of aurora streak that seems to dance in place as a vertical tube, rather than shimmering lights that sway across the skies.

"Steve" was coined by Chris Ratzlaff, a photographer and the administrator for "The Alberta Aurora Chasers" Facebook group. He and the site's members had noticed a long, tubular purplish part of the aurora. They called it "proton arc" but it attracted the attention of aurora researcher Prof. Eric Donovan with the University of Calgary. He saw their photos but knew proton arcs aren't visible so it had to be something else.


Comment: New atmospheric phenomenon discovered by SWARM satellites


Ratzlaff told CBC-TV he came up with the name "Steve" after watching the movie "Over the Hedge" in which animals are scared of an unknown something on the other side of a hedge, and decide to call it Steve. The name has stuck. (Guess it's a good idea he wasn't watching Shrek.)

Donovan was able to go back and match the chasers' photos of Steve to when a satellite from the European Space Agency's "swarm" project flew through that spot and were able to detail changes in the electric fields.

Comment: Another incredible image of 'Steve' as a purple auroral arc was captured in the sky of Alberta on September 27, 2017 by Alan Dyer.

'Steve' purple arc over Alberta
© Alan Dyer
"The Steve arc appeared for only about 20 minutes, starting at 10:45 pm MDT, during a lull in the main display," says Dyer, who captured the arc in a 6-shot, 360o panorama.

A surprisingly strong G3-class geomagnetic storm meant the Northern Lights spilled over the Canadian border into more than half a dozen US states.

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Cloud Precipitation

Some roads turned into rivers in parts of Boston, Massachusetts

Jeremy C. Fox
Boston Globe
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:21 UTC
Flash flooding traps vehicles

Flash flooding traps vehicles
Flash floods turned streets into rivers, inundated basements, and left dozens of cars waterlogged in East Boston, Lynn, Winthrop, and other North Shore communities early Saturday.

By late morning the waters receded, and sunny fall weather was forecast for Sunday into the middle part of the week, according to the National Weather Service. But some area residents will be dealing with the damage done by Saturday's rains for months and possibly even years to come.

In East Boston, Nicolas Miranda returned to his Ashley Street home Saturday morning to find a nearby drain blocked and his driveway strewn with debris that apparently had flowed downhill from Orient Heights.

"I have a lot of damage in my house," said Miranda, 46, who estimated he had 8 to 9 feet of water in the basement of the three-family home, covering the steps down from the first floor.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 3 fishermen in Rajshahi, Bangladesh


The Star (Bangladesh)
Sun, 01 Oct 2017 16:15 UTC
lightning
Three fishermen were killed in lightning strike during storm at Baghmara upazila of Rajshahi this noon.

The deceased Abul Hossain, 40, Jalal Uddin, 38 and Khorshed Alam, 50, were residents of Barabihanali village of the upazila, our Rajshahi staff correspondent reports quoting Nasir Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Baghmara Police Station.

Mahbubur Rahman, chairman of Barabihanali union said a thunderbolt struck the trio while they were fishing in a water body around 12:30pm, leaving them dead on the spot.

On information, Fire Service and Civil Defence divers rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies, the chairman said.
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Two people have close encounters with a San Antonio,Texas sinkhole


Fox San Antonio
Sun, 01 Oct 2017 15:29 UTC
truck in sinkhole
The San Antonio Water System says a water main break that resulted in a sinkhole on the city's Southeast side was most likely caused by all this rain.

"The adrenalin was like Jeanette you need to get out, you need to do whatever you can," said San Antonio resident Jeanette Berlanga.

Jeanette Berlanga says she runs with her boyfriend every morning at Lion's park. Friday, she says that run turned into a very scary one. She says while running she fell into the edge of a large hole.

"My full body went in and I didn't touch the ground, so I didn't know how deep that was," said Berlanga.
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Eruption of mud volcano on Trinidad


Sunday Express (Trinidad)
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 10:28 UTC
mud volcano
The Environmental Management Authority (EMA) says it received a report last Wedneday of water and mud bubbling from a hole in the ground in the vicinity of LP 22 Macaya Trace, Munroe Road, Cunupia.　

An initial assessment conducted by the EMA on the same evening revealed that in addition to water and mud bubbling from the ground, heat/ steam and unknown pungent gas were being emitted. Further, there was no pipeline or associated infrastructure in the vicinity of the site.

　The EMA in keeping with its coordinating role notified several agencies to assist with the further assessment of this phenomenon namely, ODPM, MEEA, UWI Seismic Research Unit, NGC, Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Young Professionals Trinidad and Tobago Chapter.　
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Christmas Tree

Beetles, fungus and old age: The days of LA's palm trees are numbered

Rory Carroll
The Guardian
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:25 UTC
los angeles
© Danita Delimont/Getty Images/Gallo Images
‘The iconic association of palm trees with Los Angeles is a positive, but we’re now in a period where we have a better understanding of what’s needed,’ says a climate expert.
They are the sultry, swaying backdrop to countless films, posters and music videos, an effective way to announce: this is Los Angeles.

Palm trees greet you outside the LAX airport, they line Hollywood Boulevard, stand guard over the Pacific and crisscross neighbourhoods poor and rich, a botanical army of stems and fronds which symbolise the world's entertainment capital.

Apparently not for much longer. LA's palm trees are dying. And most won't be replaced.

A beetle known as the South American palm weevil and a fungus called Fusarium are killing palm trees across southern California. Others are dying of old age. "It'll change the overall aesthetic because palm trees are so distinctive. It's the look and feel of Los Angeles," said Carol Bornstein, director of the nature gardens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.

A city tally in 1990 estimated the number of palms on city streets at 75,000, a number which has not been updated but is destined to plunge in coming decades, the Los Angeles Times reported this week, citing officials.

No one knows how many will die, or how fast. For palm lovers, the even worse news is that they won't be replaced, perhaps not even mourned.
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Windsock

Microburst caused storm damage in Ottawa, weather agency confirms


CBC.ca
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:27 UTC
Ottawa storm damage

A tree felled during a severe storm in Ottawa on Sept. 27 landed on a car at Woodlawn Avenue and Monk Street in the Glebe. (Submitted by Carolyn Brule)


Britannia Yacht Club recorded wind gust of about 160 km/h at 3:08 p.m. Wednesday

A rapidly moving column of sinking air called a microburst is likely to blame for the damage caused when a powerful storm moved through the National Capital Region Wednesday afternoon, Environment Canada says.

The Britannia Yacht Club on the Ottawa River recorded a wind gust of about 160 km/h at 3:08 p.m. Wednesday, the weather agency said in a French-language notice posted on its website Friday. Staff at the club confirmed the reading to CBC Thursday.

Winds moving that fast are consistent with F1 tornadoes, but microbursts can also cause winds at speeds of more than 100 km/h.

Damage was spread over an area stretching about seven kilometres, Environment Canada said, adding that the data contained in its notice is preliminary and doesn't constitute a final report.
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