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28-foot-long dead whale found in Ratnagiri, India

Clara Lewis
The Times of India
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:42 UTC

A 28 feet long dead whale was washed ashore on the remote rocky coast of Aagari village of Dapoli taluka in Ratnagiri district. The dead whale was spotted on Wednesday night, said N Vasudevan, chief conservator of forests, in charge of marine bio-diversity.

The whale species is yet to be confirmed.

This is the third incident this year when whale have been washed ashore. While the whale at Juhu too was dead and the body washed ashore, at Dapoli, a blue whale that had come close to the shores, was directed back into the sea by local forest officials and villagers. At Juhu the body was buried in the sand.

Vasudevan said the site where the dead whale was found is rocky and difficult to reach. "We have collected tissues to ascertain the cause of the death but will not be able to bury it,'' he said. He said there was also no expertise to conduct a post-mortem.

"The body was highly disintegrated which indicates that it had died in the sea," he said.

Warm weather breaks over a dozen temperature records across Alberta, Canada

Claire Theobald
Edmonton Sun
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:31 UTC

© Drew Anderson/CBC
The ice that covered the Bow River just a few days ago has begun to thaw, thanks to consecutive days of above-zero temperatures in Calgary.

Warm weather broke over a dozen temperature records across Alberta on Tuesday, including in Edmonton.

The last record high temperature for Feb. 9 was set at 5.9 C at the Edmonton International Airport in 1995. On Tuesday, temperatures reached 7.9 C, setting a new record.

Temperature records were also broken in Brooks, Calgary, Claresholm, Drumheller, Grande Prairie, Jasper, Lethbridge, Lloydminster, Medicine Hat, Peace River, Sundre and at the Waterton Park Gate.

Colin Fong, meteorologist with Environment Canada, said the above average seasonal temperatures - which normally sit at -3.8 for this time of year - are caused by a ridge of high pressure.

"That ridge is just kind of ushering in that warm air from the south, keeping at bay all of those weather systems from the west," said Fong, keeping skies clear and temperatures warm.

"The highs are definitely on the good side of history, but as we see that ridge breaking down we're going to see that trend towards more of the normal," warned Fong.

Comment: See also: Records broken as winter heatwave hits Southern California

Dog touted as 'good with children' kills mother of two in Snug Harbor, North Carolina

13wmaz
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:59 UTC

A mother of two in Snug Harbor died Wednesday after her dog mauled her inside her home.

Perquimans County Sheriff Eric Tilley said the attack happened around 1 p.m. in the 1200 block of Snug Harbor Road.

Suzanne Story, 36, died just as a medical crew from Norfolk landed to take her to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

Story's family told 13News Now she got the female Pit Bull from Virginia about a week ago after she saw an advertisement in a newspaper. The ad said the dog was good with small children.

"I think they had a problem with the dog and didn't know how to handle it, and they were just trying to get rid of it, and they did," said Story's stepfather, Randy Brown. "Found somebody that would take it, and ended up with a death."

Brown added that the people who had the dog gave her to Story at no charge.

"Brought the dog down here, and said that the dog was gentle, it was good with people, good with children, it had never attacked any person," Brown stated. "Why a dog would attack her, I mean, is beyond me, but it had to have been the dog, not her."

3 tropical cyclones form at the same time in the Southern Hemisphere

Strange Sounds
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:28 UTC

Three tropical cyclones formed almost simultaneously in the Southern Hemisphere.

Daya was born in the Indian Ocean, whereas Eleven and Tatiana formed in the Pacific Ocean.

The tropical cyclone Daya formed east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and is moving in a south-easterly direction. In the eye of the storm, wind speeds were measured at 72 km / h, with gusts reaching 97 km / h.

Tropical cyclone Daya

Fuego volcano spews ash onto nearby towns in Guatemala

9news.com.au
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:45 UTC

Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupts with fiery lava.

A restive volcano near Guatemala's capital spewed ash on nearby towns Wednesday, including on a colonial-era city popular with tourists, officials said.

The overnight eruption of Fuego Volcano - whose name means "fire" in Spanish -sent ash billowing up to five kilometers (three miles) into the sky and rivers of lava up to two kilometers long, according to Guatemala's Volcanology Institute.

Light tremors were also felt up to 25 kilometers away.

Strong gusts of wind could carry the clouds of "fine ash particles" to Guatemala City, 45 kilometers distant, said David de Leon, a spokesman for the government's disaster coordination service.

Mysterious bubbling sand filmed in Gaza

Strange Sounds
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:09 UTC

Sand bubbling in Gaza.

The sand is bubbling in Gaza.

Check out this video and look at what these people are gawking at... A mysterious bubbling desert.

How would you react, if you were looking at sand on the ground and it would suddenly start to move and make bubbles?

This mysterious phenomenon is just out of this world and still unexplained.

Lightning strike sparks a huge explosion at steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales

Amie Gordon
Daily Mail, UK
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:54 UTC

Fire crews from Mid and West Wales Fire Service were called to the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot, Wales, around 8am, after a blaze ripped through the site

Steelworkers escaped with their lives after a huge explosion ripped through Britain's biggest steelworks plant this morning.

The massive blast - believed to have been caused by a lightning strike - rocked the Tata steelworks in Port Talbot, South Wales, shortly after a shift change at 8am.

Flames could be seen for miles around - and parts of the plant were evacuated as emergency services rushed to the scene.

Onlooker Mike O'Neill said: 'My car shook with the explosion as I drove past. I can see massive 100ft flames.

'There was also a huge plume of black smoke.'

Number of turtles with body tumors dramatically increasing in Florida

Josh L Davis
IFL Science
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:18 UTC

© Peter Bennett & Ursula Keuper-Bennett/Wikimedia
The tumors are thought to be caused by a herpes virus, and can blind the reptiles.

Off the coast of Florida, the population of green sea turtles has dramatically rebounded. From fewer than 500 nests recorded on the beaches nearly 30 years ago, last year saw a record 28,000 clutches of eggs laid. But despite this impressive recovery, they now seem to be facing another problem. More and more of the reptiles are being found infected with a potentially deadly disease, which causes tumors to grow all over their bodies.

The disease, known as fibropapillomatosis, is thought to be caused by a herpes virus and is specific to sea turtles. Despite looking harmful, the tumors that develop on the surface are mainly benign, but problems arise when they grow over the turtles' eyes, which prevents them from seeing and therefore feeding. Around 20 years ago, vets at the Turtle Hospital in the Florida Keys were seeing around eight turtles a month with the tumors, but recently they have seen a massive increase, now seeing around eight a week.

Records broken as winter heatwave hits Southern California

Jenna Lyons
SFGate
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:38 UTC

Several Bay Area cities broke temperature records for the day during a mid-winter heat wave that continued Tuesday, but San Francisco came just one degree short of tying its record, forecasters said.

"Close, but no cigar," said Diana Henderson, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.

San Francisco high Tuesday was 72 degrees, compared with the record of 73 set in 2006, Henderson said.

The unseasonably warm weather started on the weekend. On Monday, San Francisco's 75-degree high beat the 2006 record for that day by a degree.

Earthquake 'swarm' rattles village in New Brunswick, Canada

CBC.ca
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:28 UTC

McAdam again hit by dozens of small quakes as seismologists search for answers

A swarm of small earthquakes is again rattling residents in the southwestern New Brunswick village of McAdam.

Officially, nine earthquakes hit the area on Monday night alone, coming on the heels of more than 23 temblors recorded since Feb. 1.

Mayor Frank Carroll estimates there were 20 to 30 small quakes on Monday night, with many of them not picked up by monitoring equipment located about 95 kilometres away in St. George. One of them registered 3.3 in magnitude.

No injuries have been reported and damage has been minor.

"Some people kind of describe it as a bomb going off," said Carroll.

"The community was really on edge on Monday," he said. "It was a horrific day in the world of earthquakes for us."

The village is giving all residents an "earthquake safety action plan," advising them on what to do if the quakes worsen.

Lindsey Wilson says a quake rattled her windows hard enough to break one of them.

"We've had some damage to our house. We've actually had a window get cracked on Sunday night," Wilson said.

A seismologist with Natural Resources Canada says it isn't known whether the small quakes are a precursor to a larger one.

"Magnitude 3.3 was quite a bit bigger than they had before," said John Adams. "But the pattern of activity is unpredictable."

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Earth Changes

28-foot-long dead whale found in Ratnagiri, India

Warm weather breaks over a dozen temperature records across Alberta, Canada

Dog touted as 'good with children' kills mother of two in Snug Harbor, North Carolina

3 tropical cyclones form at the same time in the Southern Hemisphere

Fuego volcano spews ash onto nearby towns in Guatemala

Mysterious bubbling sand filmed in Gaza

Lightning strike sparks a huge explosion at steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales

Number of turtles with body tumors dramatically increasing in Florida

Records broken as winter heatwave hits Southern California

Earthquake 'swarm' rattles village in New Brunswick, Canada

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