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Deer that attacked woman in Pennsylvania tests positive for rabies

David Highfield
CBS Pittsburgh
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:29 UTC

The deer that attacked a woman in Westmoreland County has tested positive for rabies, according the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

Rachel McGough is the manager at the Sherwin Williams paint store in East Huntingdon Township. She noticed the doe Tuesday morning as she was about to open the store.

"There was a deer standing outside the liquor store," Said McGough. "Thought that was pretty funny, so I took a picture of it. And it started to charge me!"

She didn't know what to think as the doe began pushing her.

"Oh my God! This deer is going to kill me," she said.

McGough says the stuff she was carrying actually helped a little.

"I had a couple of bags with me that I shoved at it trying to get away. One of the bags got looped around its neck, which allowed me to get a couple feet away," said McGough.

Turns out, two guys up at the McDonald's had been watching the deer cross the parking lot and then come over to McGough. They became Good Samaritans when they came running down and tackled the deer.

Neonicotinoid insecticides linked to recent fall in farmland bird numbers

Damian Carrington
The Guardian
Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:13 UTC

Research demonstrates for the first time the knock-on effects to other species of class of insecticides known to harm bees

New research has identified the world's most widely used insecticides as the key factor in the recent reduction in numbers of farmland birds.

The finding represents a significant escalation of the known dangers of the insecticides and follows an assessment in June that warned that pervasive pollution by these nerve agents was now threatening all food production.

The neonicotinoid insecticides are believed to seriously harm bees and other pollinating insects, and a two-year EU suspension on three of the poisons began at the end of 2013. But the suspected knock-on effects on other species had not been demonstrated until now.

Peer-reviewed research, published in the leading journal Nature this Wednesday, has revealed data from the Netherlands showing that bird populations fell most sharply in those areas where neonicotinoid pollution was highest. Starlings, tree sparrows and swallows were among the most affected.

Starlings like this one have been impacted by the use of a neonicotinoid chemical according to scientists

More than 500 rhino slaughtered by poachers in South Africa in 2014

The Guardian
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:31 UTC

Official figures suggest this year will be deadliest yet for rhino, breaking 2013 record of 1,004 deaths

Some 558 rhino have been killed in South Africa already this year, setting the country on course for a gruesome new record number of poaching deaths, wildlife officials said on Thursday.

Despite stepped-up efforts to curb the scourge, the number of animals killed is around 100 higher than at the same point in 2013, a year which saw a record 1,004 deaths.

The vast, tourist-filled Kruger National Park has been hardest hit.

"Since January 2014, 351 rhinos have been poached in the park," the department of environmental affairs said.

Shocking summer return of poor man's polar vortex to eastern U.S. next week

James Samenow
Washingtonpost.com
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:35 UTC

Call it the ghost of the polar vortex, the polar vortex sequel, or the polar vortex's revenge. Meteorological purists may tell you it's not a polar vortex at all. However you choose to refer to the looming weather pattern, unseasonably chilly air is headed for parts of the northern and northeastern U.S at the height of summer early next week.

Bearing a haunting resemblance to January's brutally cold weather pattern, a deep pool of cool air from the Gulf of Alaska will plunge into the Great Lakes early next week and then ooze towards the East Coast.

Of course, this is July, not January, so temperatures forecast to be roughly 10 to as much as 30 degrees below average won't have quite the same effect.

But make no mistake, in parts of the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest getting dealt the chilliest air, hoodies and jeans will be required. Highs in this region could well get stuck in the 50s and 60s - especially where there is considerable cloud cover.

Wednesday morning's lows may drop into the 40s over a large part of the central U.S. Remember, this is July!

Hot spot: Yellowstone road melts, sites closed

Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:51 UTC

The ever-changing thermal geology of Yellowstone National Park has created a hot spot that melted an asphalt road and closed access to popular geysers and other attractions at the height of tourist season, officials said Thursday.

As they examined possible fixes, park officials warned visitors not to hike into the affected area, where the danger of stepping through solid-looking soil into boiling-hot water was high.

"There are plenty of other great places to see thermal features in the park," Yellowstone spokesman Al Nash said. "I wouldn't risk personal injury to see these during this temporary closure."

Naturally changing thermal features often damage Yellowstone's roads and boardwalks. Steaming potholes in asphalt roads and parking lots - marked off by traffic cones - are fairly common curiosities.

However, the damage to Firehole Lake Drive is unusually severe and could take several days to fix. The 3.3-mile loop six miles north of Old Faithful takes visitors past Great Fountain Geyser, White Dome Geyser and Firehole Lake.

Unusually warm weather for Yellowstone - with high temperatures in the mid-80s - has contributed to turning the road into a hot, sticky mess.

"We've got some ideas. We're going to try them. Our maintenance staff has really looked at the issue," Nash said.

Surprising rain in Las Vegas: 'Unusual weather we're having, aint it?'

Anthony Watts
Wattsupwiththat.com
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:05 UTC

The title of this post is a famous quote from the cowardly lion in the 1939 movie the Wizard of Oz. Readers may remember this film was one of the very first to show "climate disruption" manifesting itself as extreme weather, as regular garden-variety tornadoes in Kansas turned ugly and started transporting people into alternate universes.

I thought that quote was rather appropriate for the kind of weather I'm experiencing in Las Vegas today, on the morning after the ICCC9 conference. This is the view from my hotel room window:

This view is looking southeast at the West end of the McCarran International Airport (KLAS). You can see puddles on the runway and on some of the surrounding land plus the rain shafts coming from the clouds. For those of you that prefer data over pictures, here's some:

Of particular interest is the graph in the upper right. Note that it registers .08 inches of precipitation this morning but also smaller amounts of precipitation going all the way back to Tuesday. We've had sort of a monsoon season this week.

Multiple deaths reported in New York after homes collapse during severe storm

Yahoo
Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:45 UTC

© AP Photo/Oneida Daily Dispatch, John Haeger
Debris is visible at Goff Road in Smithfield, N.Y., following severe storm on Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Officials in central New York say four people are dead and four homes have been destroyed in building collapses amid severe thunderstorms

Officials in central New York said four people are dead and four homes have been destroyed in building collapses amid severe thunderstorms that rolled through the region.

A spokesman for the Madison County emergency management office said the deaths were reported just after 7 p.m. Tuesday in the hard-hit community of Smithfield, located between Syracuse and Utica. No further details were immediately available.

Madison County Sheriff Allen Riley did not identify the victims. He told The Post-Standard he was still notifying their families.

Comment: It's interesting that there is no report of a tornado causing the damage. Thunderstorms rarely cause significant damage to homes and human deaths. This would seem to be caused by a tornado, yet no mention of one touching down.

3 dead in Japan as Typhoon Neoguri makes landfall and sets off a landslide

Elaine Lies
Reuters
Wed, 09 Jul 2014 05:30 UTC

© Reuters/Kyoto
Damaged cars and buildings are seen after a landslide caused by heavy rains due to Typhoon Neoguri in Nagiso town, Nagano prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo July 10, 2014.

Heavy rain battered a wide swathe of Japan on Thursday, sending rivers over their banks and setting off a landslide as a weakened but still dangerous storm made landfall and headed east, leaving three people dead.

Neoguri, which first threatened Japan as a super typhoon this week, had weakened to a tropical storm by the time it ploughed ashore on the westernmost main island of Kyushu. But it was still packing wind gusts of up to 126 kph (78 mph).

Heavy rains prompted the cancellation of hundreds of flights and trains and closed schools. The storm also fed into a stalled seasonal rain front, threatening flooding in distant regions.

Wildfires: Forest fires sweep over 13,500 hectares in Siberia

ITAR-TASS
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 03:01 UTC

Seventy nine forest fires were raging on more than 13,500 hectares in five Siberian regions. The Irkutsk region and the Krasnoyarsk territory were hit most severely with 8,400 and 4,900 hectares burning, the press service of the Siberian Federal District's Forestry Department reported on Thursday.

Forty nine fires on more than 6,000 hectares were extinguished on Wednesday in Buryatia, the Altai, Trans-Baikal and Krasnoyarsk territories and the Irkutsk, Novosibirsk and Tomsk regions, where 1,860 firefighters, including smoke jumpers, and 30 aircraft fought the blaze.

The fires were caused mainly by carelessness of people and thunderstorms.

There have been 6,390 forest fires on 1,156,000 hectares in Siberia since the beginning of the warm season

Deadly storm, tornadoes batter Eastern U.S. states

John Kekis and Michael Hill
KFVS12.com
Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:19 UTC

© Daily Gazette
Debris is visible at Goff Road in Smithfield, N.Y., following severe storm on Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Officials in central New York say four people are dead and four homes have been destroyed in building collapses amid severe thunderstorms.

Residents of this rural central New York town on Wednesday picked through debris from homes battered by a deadly tornado, and utility crews worked to restore power in several Eastern states hit by severe storms.

In all, five people died Tuesday as strong thunderstorms blew down buildings, trees and utility lines and left hundreds of thousands without power into Wednesday.

Madison County Sheriff Allen Riley said Kimberly Hilliard, 35; her 4-month-old daughter, Paris Newman; Virginia Warner, 70; and Arnie Allen, 53, were killed in the rural town of Smithfield, between Utica and Syracuse.

He said four homes were destroyed and numerous others were damaged, with Allen's two-story home blown hundreds of feet before it landed on an unoccupied house.

In Manchester, Maryland, a tree fell at the River Valley Ranch summer camp, killing one child and injuring six others headed to a shelter.

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Earth Changes

Deer that attacked woman in Pennsylvania tests positive for rabies

Neonicotinoid insecticides linked to recent fall in farmland bird numbers

More than 500 rhino slaughtered by poachers in South Africa in 2014

Shocking summer return of poor man's polar vortex to eastern U.S. next week

Hot spot: Yellowstone road melts, sites closed

Surprising rain in Las Vegas: 'Unusual weather we're having, aint it?'

Multiple deaths reported in New York after homes collapse during severe storm

3 dead in Japan as Typhoon Neoguri makes landfall and sets off a landslide

Wildfires: Forest fires sweep over 13,500 hectares in Siberia

Deadly storm, tornadoes batter Eastern U.S. states

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