Earth Changes
Dead humpback whale found floating offshore near Montauk, New York - 4th for Long Island since April
The dead whale, first discovered Friday morning, is not being removed from the water just yet. The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society (AMSEAS) said that due to current conditions in the ocean and the location of the whale, its team has decided the best course of action is to place a location tag on the carcass and track its movements.
AMSEAS will be tracking the data collected from the tag to determine the next steps.
As of Friday afternoon, the whale is 4.5 miles offshore near Montauk. It is fairly decomposed, which would make towing a lengthy and difficult process, AMSEAS said.
No necropsy examination is planned at this time.
In Assam, the death toll in flood-related incidents increased to 84 after five more fatalities were reported, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on the flood situation in the state.
The total number of people losing their lives in flood and landslides in Assam this year is 110.
While 84 died in flood-related incidents, landslides claimed 26 lives.
Floods have affected over 25 lakh people in 24 of the 33 districts of Assam and has destroyed houses, crops, roads and bridges at several places.
Comment: On the same day 2 were killed by lightning strikes in the state of Jharkhand and 2 boys were killed by a strike on the prior day in Feni, Bangladesh.
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At least 14 people have died and tens of thousands of others evacuated as central and southern parts of China are ravaged by floods caused by torrential rain.
Communities along the Yangtze, which flows from west to east, have been the worst affected by the annual monsoon season.
Three floodgates of the Three Gorges Dam that spans the Yangtze were opened as the water level behind the massive structure rose more than 15m above flood level, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The shark swam away when the boy's father jumped into the water, but the child suffered lacerations across his body, Ambulance Tasmania said on Friday.
He is in stable condition following the incident, which took place off Stanley on Tasmania's northwest coast.
"The boy, from the North-West, was aboard a six-metre vessel on a fishing expedition about five kilometres from shore with his father and two other men when a shark grabbed him from the boat," authorities said.
Something is going on underneath the African continent. It has been known for some time that the three tectonic plates, Nubian, Somali and Arabian, that lie beneath the continent's Afar region, have been very slowly peeling apart from each other. Now researchers are able to use satellite images and measurements to study the process more precisely and predict how a new ocean will soon flood the region, according to NBC News.
Comment: A BBC documentary reports:
For more recent events concerning the earth changes occurring beneath our feet, see:
- Huge fissures tear through homes and infrastructure after heavy rains in Uganda
- Massive fissure discovered in Arizona desert
- Mysterious deep fissures appear in Bissarieh, Lebanon
- Another massive fissure opens on Hawaiian volcano; some defy evacuation order
- Giant fissures appear near epicenters of California's major earthquakes
- The unsolved mystery of the Earth blobs
- "Blobs": Scientists think they know why magnetic poles wandering
- MindMatters: The Holy Grail, Comets, Earth Changes and Randall Carlson
- Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron

Local 4WD owners came to the rescue of a fire crew who were stranded in floodwaters in Whangārei last night.
Fire crews rushed out to 212 emergency callouts as the storm dumped 220mm on Whangārei.
The heavy falls caused slips and landslides that closed roads and limited water supplies.
Whangārei residents were this morning being asked to conserve water after the city's water treatment plants were "struggling to cope with the intense rainfall", Whangārei District Council said.
Residents in Onerahi and Whangārei Heads were advised not to drink or use tap water except in emergencies after a burst water main on Riverside Dr drained local supplies.
Comment: Earlier this year the army was deployed to Northland as it experienced its 'worst drought on record'.
Rostov-on-Don is a city in southern Russia. The Rostov Regional Museum of Local History has collections on Cossack lore and war history. Nearby, Rostov Regional Museum of Fine Arts displays Russian art from the 16th - 20th centuries. The Rostov Academic Drama Theater of Maxim Gorky, built in the shape of a tractor, presents classic and contemporary plays. Outside, Theater Square has fountains and a Ferris wheel.
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
A toddler was killed and two adults were injured in an attack by the family dog, police in Rhode Island said Friday.
Police responded to an East Providence home at about 2:45 p.m. Thursday for a report of a disturbance and learned that a 15-month-old child had been bitten by a dog, East Providence police said in a Facebook post.














Comment: A day earlier on the west coast another dead humpback was discovered on the shoreline of Humboldt County, California:
A humpback whale calf, mouth agape, lies dead on beach about a half mile north of the Mattole River mouth.