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"The upwelling we detected is like a hot air balloon, and we infer that something is rising up through the deeper part of our planet under New England."
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"The upwelling we detected is like a hot air balloon, and we infer that something is rising up through the deeper part of our planet under New England."
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A rogue Tasmanian wombat has had to be put down after one person was hospitalised from an attack.
A rogue Tasmanian wombat has had to be put down after one person was hospitalised from an attack.
The combative marsupial was attacking adults and children near Weymouth in the state's north, according to the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment.
Spokesman Ben Davidson said a number of people had reported a specific wombat displaying "aggressive behaviour".
One person was taken to hospital after an attack.
Dozens of dead sharks have washed up on a North Queensland beach, with mystery surrounding how the animals died
Concerned resident Lance Payne made the grisly discovery last month while scouring Louisa Creek Beach, south of Mackay.
The 54-year-old said he found an 'alarming number' of carcasses during his first visit, with at least eight more, including juveniles, unearthed on Sunday.
Mr Payne first first came across the dead beasts in early November, while searching the beach for coal.
Taking to Facebook, he stated that there appeared to be only one species that had washed up on the shore.
Footage from two separate CCTV cameras shows the moment an unsuspecting pedestrian disappears into a sinkhole.
Footage from two separate CCTV cameras shows the moment an unsuspecting pedestrian disappears into the sinkhole in Jiangxi Province's Nanchang.
Video posted online shows the pedestrian, who was with three friends on the footpath, getting ready to cross the road. Suddenly, the man disappears from sight as the footpath caves in. His friends are left stunned. A number of passersby rush over to offer assistance as the victim's shocked friends reach out to help him out of the sinkhole.
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December 3, 2017 @ Muonio, Lapland, Finland
December 3, 2017 @ Muonio, Lapland, Finland
STRANGE ARCTIC RAINBOW
Rainbows usually require liquid water. Droplets falling out of the sky intercept beams of sunlight, reflecting them back in a colorful spray of red, green, and blue. Yesterday, Valtteri Immonen saw such a rainbow over Muonio, Finland, but something was missing: the raindrops. "It was -6 degrees C, no rain and no snowfall," he says. "Yet there was a huge rainbow across the sky."
"I have never seen a rainbow during the winter and I didn't even know that it is possible for them to form when the temperature is below 0 degrees Celsius," he marvels.
Images released by the European Space Agency on Friday are very revealing - Showing the level of air pollutants around the world, including the sulfur dioxide, ash, and smoke from the Mount Agung volcano in Bali.
On October 13, this year, the ESA launched its UK-built Sentinel-5P, a pollution monitoring satellite. Sentinel-5P is the first Copernicus satellite solely dedicated to monitoring the Earth's atmospheric chemistry, 24-hours a day, every day., and it has lived up to its name.
The satellite's instruments, as it orbits over 800 kilometers (497 miles) above Earth, produces one million gigabytes of data that's about the same as 213,000 DVD movies. Pollutant levels are measured across individual countries, providing data on Ozone NO_2, SO_2, Formaldehyde, Aerosols, Carbon dioxide, Methane, and Clouds, according to the ESA website. The monitoring is in support of air quality, climate, and ozone operational monitoring programs.
In a statement, ESA says that "even though the satellite is still being prepared for service, these first results have been hailed as exceptional and show how this latest Copernicus satellite is set to take the task of monitoring air quality into a new era."
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Artist's rendition of The Sentinel-5P satellite.
Artist's rendition of The Sentinel-5P satellite.
The satellite's instruments, as it orbits over 800 kilometers (497 miles) above Earth, produces one million gigabytes of data that's about the same as 213,000 DVD movies. Pollutant levels are measured across individual countries, providing data on Ozone NO_2, SO_2, Formaldehyde, Aerosols, Carbon dioxide, Methane, and Clouds, according to the ESA website. The monitoring is in support of air quality, climate, and ozone operational monitoring programs.
In a statement, ESA says that "even though the satellite is still being prepared for service, these first results have been hailed as exceptional and show how this latest Copernicus satellite is set to take the task of monitoring air quality into a new era."
Greater One Horned Rhino
Chief wildlife warden Ravi Kant Sinha said 58-year-old Uttam Sarkar was on duty at the Shiltorsha beat of the national park. Sarkar was a resident of north Bengal.
"It was dark and the beat officer probably couldn't spot the rhino when it attacked him," added Sinha. State wildlife advisory board member Animesh Bose said Sarkar was heading towards his beat on a bike on Wednesday night when he came face-toface with the rhino.
"The animal attacked and killed him on the spot. Though deaths of forest guards in rhino attacks were reported earlier from the park, this is the first time a beat officer was killed in rhino attack," Bose added.
Farooq Ahmad, also a resident of Bagna, who was passing by was reportedly buried under the debris. (Photo for representation)
"Two local labourers working on the Seri-Sencha PMGSY link road this afternoon got burried under the debris of a landslide at Bhagnain Ramban," Mohan Lal, SSP Ramban, here told UNI. He said the labourers, who were deputed with the JCB machine, came under heavy boulders and soil, when the excavation work was going on.
The deceased were identified as Abdul Rasheed of Bhatti and Farooq Ahmed of Balihote, Ramban. "The rescue operation was carried out by the local police, SDRF, volunteers of QRT and locals, while one of the bodies was retrieved from the debris,"he added.
Source: UNI
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It is a cloudy November day in 2017 along the Mississippi River Illinois/ Iowa border. There is very little wind, the trees are barely rustling so the noise is NOT wind although it occasionally sounds like a mighty wind very high up in the sky! NEVER heard this particular noise EVER before! Even though the camera may seems as if it is raining - it is NOT RAINING! Kind of sounded a tish like thunder but this noise was a continual noise for an hour!
It sounded for 5 - 7 minutes at a time then died down for just 1-2 minutes and was back just as loud as before. We could hear it out from the same direction but seemed to be louder just right, left then right over head. It was not moving far if at all. NO VARIATIONS as traffic, planes, jets, and way too loud for a plane to be that low and we did not see one thing! For an hour, no lights, shadows or planes.
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