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Boar kills hunter who was trying to shoot him near Greifswald in Germany

Claire Reid
Lad Bible.
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 14:15 UTC
Wild Boar

Wild boar
A German hunter has died after being gored by a wild boar that he was attempting to shoot.

Police in the north-eastern town of Greifswald have announced that the man was on an arranged wild boar hunt with 12 other people when he attempted to shoot the animal. He fired at the boar and moved into a patch of undergrowth, where he was attacked and suffered injuries to his left thigh.

The wound was bleeding heavily and the man fell into a ditch flooded with water. A fellow hunter rushed to his aid, but the man lost consciousness en route to the hospital and subsequently died. It is not known if the boar survived.

Police are now investigating the incident. "We are hoping to discover more clarity in this case," said Martin Cloppenburg, a spokesperson for the state lawyers' office of Stralsund on Tuesday.

The attack occurred on Sunday in the village of Neuenkirchen on the outskirts of Greifswald, near the northern coast of Germany on the Baltic Sea.

"The hunters will always try to kill the boar," said Ulf-Peter Schwarz, the press spokesperson for the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern hunter's federation.
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Attention

Shiveluch volcano in Russia erupts spewing hot ash 6 miles into the sky

Charlie Buckle
Daily Express (UK)
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:20 UTC
The volcano ashes 10 kilometres in the air

The volcano ashes 10 kilometres in the air
A Siberian super volcano has terrified experts after it began spewing piping hot ash 6 miles into the air.

Scientists working at the geophysical department of the Russian Academy of Science in north-eastern Russia's Kamchatka Krai region have confirmed the giant eruption took place at the site of the Shiveluch Volcano yesterday over a 20 minute period and saw the volcano spew ash 10 kilometres (6 miles) into the sky.

Experts have raised the alert after the volcano flung hot ash into the air for the first time since February 2016.

It is not believed any locals or villages surrounding the eruption were affected.

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Snowflake Cold

Parts of Balochistan in Pakistan see lowest temperature in decades

Rashid Saeed
geo.tv
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 10:10 UTC
PHOTO:FILE

PHOTO:FILE
A spell of extreme cold has returned in districts of Balochistan after decades, with lowest temperatures recorded in Quetta and Kalat, according to the meteorological department.

In Kalat, minimum temperature was recorded at -12°C after 31 years. As per the meteorological department, the temperature in Kalat plummeted this low last on December 13, 1986. Similar, in Quetta, minimum temperature was recorded at -10°C on Tuesday - a reading seen after 10 years there.

Ziarat district of Balochistan too has come under the folds of extreme cold as -11°C was recorded there.

An official of the meteorological department, Dr Azmat Hayat, said the cold spell is likely to persist for the next few days, when mercury will plummet further in the three districts of the province - Kalat, Ziarat and Quetta.
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Fire

'Out of control' Southern California wildfire explodes as growing blazes force 27,000 to flee

Max Ufberg, Mark Berman, Eli Rosenberg and Noah Smith
Chicago Tribune
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 04:21 UTC
California wildfire Dec 2017
© David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG
Within minutes a home on Hillrose street in Sunland has burned to the ground at the Creek fire Tuesday.
Ferocious fires tore through Southern California on Tuesday, burning massive stretches of land in a matter of hours and forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes.

As firefighters in Ventura County grappled with an explosive blaze northwest of downtown Los Angeles, others across the region confronted additional fires that burned during the day and forced more evacuations. Authorities issued ominous warnings of more dangers to come during a "multiday event" across the area, as weather forecasters said the region faces "extreme fire danger" through at least Thursday due to intense Santa Ana winds and low humidity that could cause the fires to grow rapidly.

The wildfires are the latest grim chapter in a brutal year for California, coming just months after deadly blazes in the state's wine country killed dozens of people and razed thousands of buildings.

The biggest fire Tuesday was in Ventura County, where a small blaze quickly went out of control and spread across more than 50,000 acres by the afternoon. The fire - which burned an area nearly as large as Seattle - stretched into the city of Ventura, home to more than 100,000 people.

"The prospects for containment are not good," Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen said at a news briefing as the fire was beginning its aggressive expansion. "Really, Mother Nature's going to decide when we have the ability to put it out."


Comment: See also: Raging wildfire threatens hundreds of homes in Ventura County, California; 1,000 households told to evacuate

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Wolf

Coyote attacks 3-year-old girl on front porch in Snoqualmie, Washington

Tatevik Aprikyan
q13fox.com
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 15:38 UTC
Coyote

Coyote
People in the Snoqualmie Ridge area have been running into more coyotes this past week.

On Thursday, father Douglas Lucas says his three-year-old daughter was attacked by a coyote who came up to the front porch of their home and pounced on the child.

The city of Snoqualmie says within the past 24 hours they've had seven reports of coyote sightings.

"It bite me," said three-year-old Sophia about her encounter with a coyote.

The little girl was outside with her father on the front porch of their home near Swenson Park. Her father was up on the ladder hanging Christmas lights when the coyote came up to their home.

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Question

Mysterious elevation of river's ground with fish kill in San Enrique, Philippines

Jay Nelz
Philippine News
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:20 UTC
river
The mysterious elevation of river's ground and massive fish kill in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental frightens the residents.

On Saturday (December 02, 2017), the official Facebook page of "Aksyon Radyo Bacolod" has uploaded the photos and videos of the mysterious ground elevation of Candaguit River at Purok 5, Brgy Baliwagan, San Enrique in Negros Occidental.

The mysterious elevation of river's ground, which causes a massive fish kill in the area frightens the residents.

According to Joel Nochepo, a resident of Barangay Baliwagan in San Enrique, the residents were frightened by the sudden ground elevation of Candaguit River of about two feet in height and 10 meters in length.
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Moon

Supermoon creates rare moon halos and moondogs over Alabama

Christina Edwards
WHNT
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 23:50 UTC
Moon halo over Alabama
© Andrew Lecher
Moondog, moon halo spotted over Smith Lake. Cullman Co.
While there's no formal definition of a Supermoon, it's typically considered a full moon that occurs at perigee.

Perigee is the point in the moon's orbit in which the moon is closest to the earth.

A full moon at perigee will look up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than a full moon that is located farthest from the earth, known as apogee.

Sunday night, we got something more than just a super moon!

Look at this -- it is a super rare moondog!


Comment: It's likely that dust loading from meteors and the rise in volcanic activity is contributing to the strange skies we witnessing these days. This can have a cooling effect on the atmosphere causing more ice crystals to form.

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Attention

Sperm whale carcass washes up on beach in Hopetoun, Western Australia

Christien de Garis and Sam Tomlin
abc.net.au
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 10:56 UTC
Council workers attempt to remove a whale carcass in Hopetoun.
© Hopetoun Progress Association
Council workers attempt to remove a whale carcass in Hopetoun.
Leaders of a popular tourist town on Western Australia's south-east coast have been left with a 45-tonne headache, after a dead sperm whale washed up on a popular tourist beach.

Initially spotted last week, the carcass became caught on a reef offshore from Hopetoun, 574km southeast of Perth, on Sunday afternoon.

Shire of Ravensthorpe chief executive Ian Fitzgerald said the high tide had washed the mammal ashore by Monday morning.

"Obviously a rotting carcass, with the lovely aroma it gives off, plus the leaching of the waste into the water and the ground didn't make for a good environment," Mr Fitzgerald said.
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Fire

Raging wildfire threatens hundreds of homes in Ventura County, California; 1,000 households told to evacuate


Daily Mail
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 10:20 UTC
The 10,000-acre wildfire, known as the Thomas Fire, burned dry brush after erupting earlier in the evening in Ventura County (pictured)

The 10,000-acre wildfire, known as the Thomas Fire, burned dry brush after erupting earlier in the evening in Ventura County (pictured)
A raging wildfire has threatened hundreds of homes near Los Angeles as 1,000 households are told to evacuate.

Residents have been forced to leave their homes and one motorist was killed desperately trying to flee the rapidly-growing fire.

The 10,000-acre wildfire, known as the Thomas Fire, burned dry brush after erupting earlier in the evening in Ventura County, 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

More than 150,000 homes were without power and at least two structures were destroyed, media reported.

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Snowflake Cold

Another Arctic blast coming to the US this week and will stay around for weeks

Doyle Rice
USA Today
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:52 UTC
Artic blast polar vortex december 2017
© The weather channel
The mild weather of the last few weeks will soon be a distant memory as the coldest air of the season invades most of the central and eastern U.S.

Frigid temperatures, but little snow, will hit from the Midwest to the Southeast. Even parts of Florida will see nighttime temperatures dip into the 30s.

Unlike previous cold snaps this fall, this one looks to stay around for a while, potentially until the first day of winter on Dec. 21, AccuWeather meteorologist Max Vido said.


Comment: Just a few weeks ago in the middle of November the US was blasted by Arctic cold. This weather pattern is becoming the norm: US: Polar vortex to bring 'extended period of severe winter weather', amidst already record breaking cold

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