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The insect is half female, half male.
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The insect is half female, half male.
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A ferocious line of wind and waterspouts in china dropped octopus, shrimp, starfish from the sky miles inland.
Kilimanjaro glacier grows after massive record breaking rain season in Eastern Africa.
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For years, climate scientists have been predicting more extreme weather as carbon emissions increase and global temperatures rise. And what we're seeing is exactly that, producing wreckage well beyond your every-few-years event. Let's have a look at the last 12 months.
Comment: The climate is growing stranger and more extreme by the day, but it's not global warming and it's not caused by CO2: Cosmic Climate Change is Underway
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The video, titled 'Tsunami from Heaven' shows blue skies turning grey as rain clouds swoop in over Lake Millstatt in Carinthia, Austria. It doesn't take long to see why photographer Peter Maier gave the video its title, as the downpour of the rainstorm does indeed look like a tsunami coming from the heavens.
Comment: Epic looding around the world is on the rise and according to one study atmospheric are expected to rivers to double in size:
"However, because the findings project that the atmospheric rivers will be, on average, about 25 percent wider and longer, the global frequency of atmospheric river conditions - like heavy rain and strong winds - will actually increase by about 50 percent." Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow jets of air that carry huge amounts of water vapor from the tropics to Earth's continents and polar regions.See also:
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These "rivers in the sky" typically range from 250 to 375 miles (400 to 600 kilometers) wide and carry as much water - in the form of water vapor - as about 25 Mississippi Rivers. When an atmospheric river makes landfall, particularly against mountainous terrain (such as the Sierra Nevada and the Andes), it releases much of that water vapor in the form of rain or snow.
- Floods Everywhere: Europe Battered By Sheets Of Rain, Hail and Thunderstorms
- Rare tornado touches down in Carinthia, Austria
- Massive flooding in Europe during the Little Ice Age
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Russia's Soyuz rocket
Russia's Soyuz rocket
People across Russia took to social media to post dazzling pictures and videos featuring a mysterious object flying over them in the night to Sunday. Searching for an explanation, some said it could have been a UFO. Others said the white oval object leaving a massive trail could be a sign that Russia's state of the art ICBM Topol-M had been launched.
However, alien-seekers were left disappointed, as it turned out to be a Russian Soyuz 2.1-b rocket, which was launched at 12:46am Moscow time (21:46 GMT) from the Plesetsk test launch site. Several hours later, the carrier rocket's Fregat booster put the Glonass-M navigational satellite into orbit. The satellite will join the group of Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS), which currently has a total of 25 objects, one of which is currently undergoing flight tests.
Comment: There are a great many signs that our atmosphere is changing:
- SpaceX rocket launch spooks Californians with eerie glowing trail (VIDEOS)
- Strange skies: Red Sprites in Oklahoma, aurora Steve in Canada, iridescent clouds in Illinois and noctilucent clouds in Denmark
- Changing atmosphere: Red sprites and a blue jet seen above Europe's stormy skies
- Noctilucent rocket fumes filmed over Okinawa Island, Japan
- Elusive anti-solar arc captured on film during take off in Sweden
- Sunlight drips through clouds and strange arc of dotted light spotted in sky at Missouri River (PHOTOS)
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The total number of homes destroyed stands at 467.
Seismic activity is on an almost predictable cycle after another strong earthquake Saturday morning.
A large explosion happened just after 10:20 a.m. at the summit of Kilauea. Officials say it had the energy of a 5.3 magnitude earthquake.
No tsunami was generated.
Air quality remains an issue as gasses and ash clog the air. USGS reports that the eruption from the lower East Rift Zone remains steady in Leilani Estates with few changes taking place over the past few days.
On Saturday, lava fountains from fissure no. 8 reached heights of about 170 feet into the air.
With the fast-moving flow, it was a similar scene all week.
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Below is just some of the volcanic activity on our planet right now:
- Volcano in the Galapagos Islands erupts after series of 9 earthquakes
- Series of stronger eruptions at Stromboli volcano in Italy
- Powerful earthquake in Bárðarðarbunga, Iceland, one of Vatnajökull's monster volcanoes
- Sakurajima volcano erupts again in southwestern Japan
- Another major eruption at Mount Sinabung, Indonesia
- Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser has now erupted eight times in less than three months intriguing scientists
Reticulated python
The victim, named as 54-year-old Wa Tiba, was reported missing in Muna regency, southeast Sulawesi on Thursday night, after she went to check on her corn plantation. The next morning family members searching for her found a torch, slippers and a machete on the ground near the plantation, reports Tribune News.com.
Later that morning, villagers spotted an eight-meter-long (26 foot) python with a swollen belly near the location, raising suspicions that Tiba had been swallowed whole by the snake and prompting locals to kill the creature.
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A volcano on the Galapagos Islands has started erupting
A volcano on the Galapagos Islands has started erupting
According to the Geophysical Institute (I) of the National Polytechnic School, the Galapagos' La Cumbre volcano - located on Fernandina island - erupted Saturday.
The eruption took place between 11:00 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. (Galapagos time) and was preceded by a series of nine earthquakes ranging from 2.5-magnitude to 4.1-magnitude. La Cumbre volcano measures 1,476-meter high and occupies almost the entire island. The eruption occurred on the northeastern sector of the volcano.
Lava flows and a gas column spanning about two to three kilometers high have been a feature of the eruption. Reports are that a flow has already reached the sea.
"There are some species that could be affected, however, being a flow (of lava) that is in only one direction, on only one side of the island, the possible impacts that there would be would not have a significant impact on biodiversity," director of the Galapagos National Park (PNG), Jorge Carrion, assured.
A landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed at least 12 people in Bangladesh's border district of Cox's Bazar
Eleven people died in Naniarchar including a family of four, while several people remained missing, district administrator Mamunur Rashid told the AFP news agency.
Aid agencies have been warning of the potential for a humanitarian catastrophe over the coming months as heavy rains lash an area home to the world's largest refugee camp.
Landslides have so far killed at least 13 people this week, including a Rohingya boy who was crushed to death by a collapsing mud wall at the Kutupalong refugee camp on Monday.
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A Canada Goose takes off in this undated file photo.
A Canada Goose takes off in this undated file photo.
Universite de Montreal veterinary specialists were brought in to examine the carcasses that were spotted Thursday morning near Contrecoeur, Que.
Veterinarian Stephane Lair said Friday evening that the geese had small lesions in their hearts that indicated a possible strike.
He said the level of decomposition indicates that they all died at the same time, which rules out disease or intoxication due to a pollutant.
Comment: For a more in-depth analysis of what's actually going on, see: Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!