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Doberman

Woman mauled to death by stray dog in Uttar Pradesh, India

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In a tragic incident reported from Uttar Pradesh, a woman working in the fields in the rural Kotwali area of Mirzapur district was mauled to death by a stray dog even as her husband was also injured in the attack after he came to rescue her on Friday, sources said.

It is learnt that Basantu Bind Bhatauli and his wife Dulesara Devi, residents of Baraini Baripur in Kachwan area of Mirzapur were working in their fields when a stray dog suddenly appeared there and attacked Dulesara and mauled her in neck and face.

Hearing the screams, Basantu along with two others Shivlal and Hiravati, who were working nearby, rushed to the spot to save Dulesara.

However, the dog bit all three of them leaving them injured. An official said that Dulesara died on the spot in the attack, while the three people injured in the dog attack were admitted to the hospital.

Igloo

Winter storm threatens travel chaos on US east coast

East Coast Blizzard
© Phys OrgIn 2022 the US Northeast was battered by what authorities called the 'blizzard of the century'.
Forecasters warned on Friday that a deluge of snow and wintery conditions could bring travel chaos to the US northeast this weekend, with some 25 million people subject to a storm warning.

Several cities in the eastern United States including New York, the most-populous city in the country, have gone record periods without winter snowfall.

But the National Weather Service (NWS) said in a winter storm warning that "travel could be nearly impossible" in places over the weekend, threatening chaos for travelers returning from winter breaks.

The affected area stretches from just outside Boston, inland across the northeast through parts of New England down towards Baltimore and Washington, DC.

"This has the potential to be a real storm for the city," said Boston official Jascha Franklin-Hodge.

"The weather really will begin tomorrow evening into Sunday and hopefully let up in time for it to be taken care of before Monday commutes and Monday starts to school," said Boston's mayor Michelle Wu.

Ice was likely to cause power outages and fell trees, forecasters warned as winter storm Ember closed in on heavily populated areas.

Fire

Mount Merapi's first eruption of 2024: A dramatic display of Indonesia's volcanic activity

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The first volcanic eruption of 2024 painted the night sky with a fiery spectacle at Mount Merapi, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes. The dramatic event, captured in a long exposure photograph by Agung Supriyanto, took place in the early hours of January 4, 2024.

The image, taken from Tunggul Arum Village in Sleman, Yogyakarta, depicts the ejection of volcanic material, illuminating the darkness with its raw power.


Fire

Dukono volcano in Indonesia erupts, spewing ash 4,000 meters high

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The Dukono volcano in the eastern part of Indonesia erupted on Wednesday morning, sending volcanic ash as high as approximately 4,000 meters into the air, according to the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG).

Mount Dukono is located in North Maluku province. It is among the 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, a vast archipelagic nation home to over 17,500 islands.

Just a few days ago, on the morning of December 29, 2023, the volcano erupted, with the emission reaching 2,800 meters.


Binoculars

Wrong place, wrong time: Northern waterthrush from North America spotted in Essex, UK

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Northern waterthrush
Bird-lovers have been flocking to a village in Essex after a rare visitor from the other side of the Atlantic was spotted.

The northern waterthrush was seen at Heybridge near Maldon on Wednesday afternoon.

It is usually found in North America and the West Indies and according to one birdwatcher there had only been 10 previous sightings in the UK.

Brian Bolton said the bird was seen in a local birdwatcher's garden and seemed to be flitting between there and a creek near his house.


Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 84 people in Cambodia in 2023 - up a 3rd on previous year

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Lightning strikes killed 84 people in Cambodia in 2023, up 33 percent from 63 deaths a year earlier, a disaster control spokesman said on Friday.

Besides the fatalities, thunderbolts injured 59 others last year, said Soth Kim Kolmony, the spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM).

"Climate change was the main cause behind the growing number of lightning strike incidents," he told Xinhua.

The provinces with the highest number of lightning strikes were Battambang, Siem Reap, Kratie, Kampong Thom, Takeo, Svay Rieng and Kampong Chhnang.

Boat

France - Hundreds evacuated again after further floods in north

Floods in the Pas de Calais Department, France in early January 2023.
© Sapeurs Pompiers du Pas de Calais SDIS 62Floods in the Pas de Calais Department, France in early January 2023.
Wide areas of the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France have been flooded for the second time in recent months after heavy rainfall caused rivers to rise.

Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological Transition, visited affected areas on 04 January. "I understand the exasperation, I understand the fatigue, I understand the anger and I understand the fear of reliving it again," the Minister said.

Rivers in the north of France have been on alert since late December 2023. As of 04 January, the Aa River was at Red Alert stage (highest) while the Hem, Canche, Lys-Plaine and Lys-Amont remained at Orange level. Authorities said levels of many rivers including the Aa peaked on 03 January but will likely remain high for some time.

According to the latest report from the government of Pas-de-Calais department, around 189 municipalities have been affected by the recent flooding. At least 1,299 homes have been damaged, some of them severely, promoting the fire departments and local authorities to evacuate a total of 371 people.


Snowflake Cold

Swedish snow chaos leaves 1,000 vehicles trapped on main E22 road

Snow is cleared with wheel loaders as cars and trucks are recovered and people are evacuated with the Home Guard’s tracked vehicle at Ekeröd on the E22 between Hörby and Kristianstad in southern Sweden, Thursday, Jan. 4,
© Johan NilssonSnow is cleared with wheel loaders as cars and trucks are recovered and people are evacuated with the Home Guard’s tracked vehicle at Ekeröd on the E22 between Hörby and Kristianstad in southern Sweden, Thursday, Jan. 4,
People who got trapped in 1,000 vehicles in heavy snow for more than 24 hours have been evacuated, Swedish authorities say.

Rescuers worked through the night to free people stuck on the main E22 road in the Skane area of southern Sweden.

Many of those trapped were evacuated by rescue teams and told to return to their cars later.

The travel chaos occurred amid plummeting winter temperatures across the Nordic countries.

Extreme cold weather has hit parts of Sweden, Finland and Norway, and snow storms in Denmark have left drivers trapped on a motorway near Aarhus since Wednesday.



Snowflake Cold

Best of the Web: 'Global boiling': Finland and Sweden report coldest temperatures in 25 years

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© Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva via APA man walks on the frozen sea in southern Helsinki, Finland, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024.
The extremely cold weather caused disruptions in transportation in Finland, Sweden and Norway, where snow made rail traffic difficult and ferry lines were suspended.

Thermometres in Finland and Sweden plunged to lower than -40 degrees Celsius in some places on Tuesday and Wednesday, as the two Scandinavian countries reported the coldest temperatures of this winter so far.

In the village of Nikkaluokta in northern Sweden, which is inhabited by indigenous Sami people, temperatures reached -41.6 degrees Celsius early on Tuesday, according to Swedish broadcaster SVT.

Comment: This passed without so much as a 'meh' from globalist media. Of course! It doesn't fit their climate change narrative.

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Arrow Down

Study: From NYC to D.C. and beyond, cities on the East Coast are sinking

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© Leonard OhenhenThe above graphic features: a spatial map of vertical land motion on the East Coast (left panel); primary, secondary, and interstate roads on Hampton Roads, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach, Virginia (top right panel); and John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York (bottom right panel). The yellow, orange and red areas on these maps denote areas of sinking.
Major cities on the U.S. Atlantic coast are sinking, in some cases as much as 5 millimeters per year - a decline at the ocean's edge that well outpaces global sea level rise, confirms new research from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Particularly hard hit population centers such as New York City and Long Island, Baltimore, and Virginia Beach and Norfolk are seeing areas of rapid "subsidence," or sinking land, alongside more slowly sinking or relatively stable ground, increasing the risk to roadways, runways, building foundations, rail lines, and pipelines, according to a study published Jan. 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.

Lead author Leonard Ohenhen, a graduate student working with Associate Professor Manoochehr Shirzaei at Virginia Tech's Earth Observation and Innovation Lab warned:
"Continuous unmitigated subsidence on the U.S. East Coast should cause concern. This is particularly in areas with a high population and property density and a historical complacency toward infrastructure maintenance."
Shirzaei and his research team pulled together a vast collection of data points measured by space-based radar satellites and used this highly accurate information to build digital terrain maps that show exactly where sinking landscapes present risks to the health of vital infrastructure. Using the publicly available satellite imagery, Shirzaei and Ohenhen measured millions of occurrences of land subsidence spanning multiple years. They then created some of the world's first high resolution depictions of the land subsidence.