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Sinkhole swallows home in Apopka, Florida; 2nd hole appears on same road 2 days later

WFTV9
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:48 UTC

Just days after a sinkhole partially swallowed a home in Apopka, a second sinkhole has formed on the same road.

Orange County Fire Rescue was called Thursday to a home at 517 West Kelly Park Road in Apopka.

The 30 by 30-foot sinkhole is about 100 feet from the home, officials said.

A separate sinkhole formed Tuesday at 222 West Kelly Park Road, just a few homes away from Thursday's sinkhole.

Comment: See also: Irma's storm water causes massive washout in Apopka, Florida

Forty seven dead dolphins found on Gulf Coast so far in 2017

Gina Tomlinson
wxxv25.com
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:57 UTC

Nearly 50 dolphins have washed up dead on the Gulf Coast this year. That number is concerning scientists at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies.

The 47th dead dolphin was found this morning east of Fort Maurepas Pier in Ocean Springs. According to the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, the female dolphin that died weighs about 340 pounds, measuring over seven feet long.

The institute has also counted 52 dead sea turtles this year. Marine experts say the cause may be due to environmental changes. Dr. Moby Solangi said, "We've had a lot of rainfall in June and elsewhere, a lot of freshwater coming in. We've had some of these hurricanes that have disrupted the habitat and then we have this huge dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi River which is the largest in the history."

Marine experts say they're working to better understand the cause of the dolphin's death. To report a stranded dolphin call the Institute's rescue team at 1-888-SOS-DOLPHIN.

Megacryometeor? Huge ice block hits garden in Renfrewshire, Scotland

Isobel Frodsham
Daily Mail (UK)
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:56 UTC

© Lyndsey Helliwell/SWNS.com
Eleanor Stephen said: 'I was sitting at my desk and heard this big boom. I thought it was an explosion and I felt the house shake'

A family had a lucky escape when huge block of ice fell from the sky and crashed into their garden.

The Helliwell family were left with a huge crater in their grass after the rock fell this morning.

The impact left a dent of 4ft 7in by 3ft 11in in the middle of their lawn and bits of ice scattered across the grass.

There has been no explanation for the freak incident but experts suspect the ice may have formed on the body of a passing aircraft.

Family friend Eleanor Stephen, 41, was at the Helliwell's home in Busby, Renfrewshire, when the ice struck.

She said: 'I was sitting at my desk and heard this big boom. I thought it was an explosion and I felt the house shake.

'When I went downstairs the dog was acting strangely. I looked out of the window and saw a hole with white stuff in it. It was splashed all over the grass.

Kitten born with two faces in Chongqing, China

Dami Olonisakin
IFL Science
Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:38 UTC

Cats are usually said to have nine lives, but this kitten had two faces. It was dubbed the "Janus" cat after the two-faced Roman God of the same name.

Below is a video of the cat gently meowing from both of its mouths. The footage was originally found in Chongqing, China. Unfortunately after two days, it was reported that Janus had died due to its rare condition, known as diprosopus.

Now, this isn't the first time anything like this has been seen before - a two-faced gray feline called "FrankenLouie" died in 2014 from cancer, at the age of 15. He made his mark in the Guinness World Records for being the longest ever surviving Janus cat, despite predictions that he would only live for a few days.

Indonesian volcano erupts: Mount Sinabung suddenly spews massive plumes of ash 2.5km into the air

Daily Mail
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:07 UTC

Deadly Indonesian volcano Mount Sinabung spewed plumes of ash 2.5km into the air as it exploded

While attention is focused on the potential imminent eruption of Mount Agung in Bali, another deadly Indonesian volcano has dramatically exploded.

Mount Sinabung, in northern Sumatra, spewed plumes of ash 2.5km into the air as it erupted at 1.23pm local time on Wednesday.

Thousands of villagers were evacuated from around the mountain, the most active of the country's 130 active volcanoes, and warned to stay at least 7km away.

Authorities feared lava flows could cascade down the mountain and destroy homes, as has happened several times.

The volcano explodes so frequently, warning signs are permanently stationed around it warning against going near it.

Only last month another eruption rocked the area, blasting ash 4.2km into the air and causing pyroclastic flows many kilometres across surrounding countryside.

Earlier in the year 10 people were killed in another eruption, with its death toll sitting at 20 in the past decade, including four high school students and their teacher on a school excursion.

Silverton Mountain in Colorado opens for first runs of the ski season and says: 'THIS IS NOT A JOKE!'

Jonathan Romeo
The Durango Herald
Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:00 UTC

Silverton Mountain

The first runs of the 2017-18 ski season were made Sunday at Silverton Mountain, North America's highest altitude ski areas with a peak of 13,487 feet.

According to a news release, a snow system that passed through the San Juan Mountains over the weekend dropped just enough snow to open the upper reaches of Silverton Mountain.

"The patrollers could not resist the opportunity to ride the chairlift today to make some turns on the upper mountain as they celebrated the start of the season at Silverton Mountain," the news release said.

Silverton Mountain co-owner Jen Brill said most of the snow was concentrated to the alpine areas of the mountain.

Grizzly bear attacks hunter in Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming

Erika Dahlby
Jackson Hole News and Guide
Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:37 UTC

A 41-year-old man was attacked by a grizzly bear in Pacific Creek, resulting in severe injuries, but was able to ride out on his own, police say.

The Rock Springs man has severe lacerations on his head, lip, nose and left arm, Sgt. Todd Stanyon from the Teton County Sheriff's Office said, along with bite marks on his back and rear hip area.

Stanyon said the man and his brother were hunting in the forest when he was attacked around 10 a.m.

"He's a tough guy," Stanyon said. "He was able to ride out of there on his own."

Ephemeral Yosemite Falls never stopped flowing this summer because of record snowpack

Amy Graff
SF Gate
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:20 UTC

Yosemite Falls got extra pizzazz in September after rain and snowfall fed into Yosemite Creek.

It's late September and Yosemite National Park's most celebrated waterfall - Yosemite Falls - continues to put on a show with water plunging 2,425 from its top to the base of the lower falls.

This is unusual.

Yosemite Falls is as an ephemeral waterfall fed by snowmelt and usually expires for a couple weeks or months in late summer.

Scott Gediman, a public information officer for Yosemite, has worked in the park for 20 years and he doesn't remember the waterfalls ever flowing continuously through the summer into fall.

"In an average year or even in a drought, Yosemite Falls goes dry from early to mid-July," Gediman says.

"With the record or near-record snowpack, Yosemite Falls is still going. It never dried up."

Shallow 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off northeastern Japan

Globalnews.ca
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:39 UTC

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck off northeastern Japan on Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and no risk of tsunami.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake struck at 5:22 a.m. (8:22 GMT) off the Pacific coast of Iwate and Aomori prefectures at a depth of about 30 kilometres (20 miles). The U.S. Geological Survey measured the magnitude at 5.9.

It shook the same region hit by a deadly earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The shaking was felt in Tokyo, 570 kilometres (350 miles) southwest of the epicenter.

Antarctica's Pine Island glacier calves iceberg 4 times bigger than Manhattan Island

Harry Petti
Daily Mail
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:47 UTC

© Stef Lhermitte/Twitter
huge iceberg four times the size of Manhattan (pictured) has broken off of an Antarctic glacier. The calving is the second time in just two years that a massive iceberg has separated from the continent's Pine Island Glacier

A huge iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off of an Antarctic glacier. The calving is the second time in two years that a massive iceberg has separated from the continent's Pine Island Glacier. One scientist has claimed the ice chunk shows the glacier is 'falling to pieces'.

The new break-off, which measures 103-square-mile (266 sq km), follows the release of an iceberg the size of Delaware from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf in July.

Warming waters around the continent may be melting the enormous ice blocks from underneath, causing them to break free.

Experts say the location from which the iceberg broke off is of particular interest. Most of the time, icebergs break free from glaciers around the edges, but this most recent departure - from western Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier - has stemmed from an interior section. This is unusual, and is not the first time the glacier has exhibited this behaviour in recent years, with a 224-square-mile (580 sq km) interior segment breaking off in 2015. Experts claim it could be the result of warming ocean waters melting the ice from below, destabilising it.

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Earth Changes

Sinkhole swallows home in Apopka, Florida; 2nd hole appears on same road 2 days later

Forty seven dead dolphins found on Gulf Coast so far in 2017

Megacryometeor? Huge ice block hits garden in Renfrewshire, Scotland

Kitten born with two faces in Chongqing, China

Indonesian volcano erupts: Mount Sinabung suddenly spews massive plumes of ash 2.5km into the air

Silverton Mountain in Colorado opens for first runs of the ski season and says: 'THIS IS NOT A JOKE!'

Grizzly bear attacks hunter in Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming

Ephemeral Yosemite Falls never stopped flowing this summer because of record snowpack

Shallow 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off northeastern Japan

Antarctica's Pine Island glacier calves iceberg 4 times bigger than Manhattan Island

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