Earth ChangesS

Bizarro Earth

Snowless in a warming world, ski resort in French Alps bids adieu

Thierry Boinet
Associated Press
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:19 UTC


©AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani
Muddy slopes, slushy peaks and unused lifts have put an end to the French ski resort of Abondance

ABONDANCE, France: Muddy slopes, slushy peaks, unused lifts - this town in the French Alps is living out the nightmare of many a ski resort in a century scientists say is doomed to keep getting warmer.
Read More...
Cloud Lightning

Tornado strikes Poland

An Eye witness to the storm
Reader of SOTT
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:53 UTC
Yesterday we had a hail storm with hail as big as eggs and around 30 KM from where I live there was a twister. Not just a small twister, it was huge. It leveled 100 houses on its way and cars were flying in the air all around. This kind of twisters NEVER happened in Poland before. It was like the ones from Oklahoma. Luckily no one was killed, but the damage is enormous.
Read More...
Bizarro Earth

Earthquakes rattle Brazil and Argentina


AP
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:17 UTC
Two strong earthquakes struck deep below ground in remote areas of South America on Saturday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

A magnitude-6.1 temblor hit Brazil in the western Amazon state of Acre at about 9:30 a.m., 105 miles southeast of Cruzeiro do Sul, according to the Web site of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Read More...
Bizarro Earth

Dead Whale Found With Car-Size Tongue


National Geographic
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:47 UTC
A humpback whale with a tongue swollen to the size of a small car has been found on the rocky shores of Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska.

©National Geographic

Scientists believe that a collision forced air into the male humpback's tongue and caused it to swell. A ship could be responsible for the death of the 40-foot (12-meter) whale, which was found last week.
Read More...
Star

Vietnam: Heatwave continues to parch northern, central regions


VNA
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:36 UTC
A fierce heatwave that has scorched the northern and central regions since the beginning of this month will continue over the next several days, the Central Hydro-meteorology Forecast Centre has warned.

Temperatures will remain at between 35-36 degrees Celsius in the northern region for the next three or four days or more and could peak at 38 degrees Celsius in the central region for a week, the centre said.
Read More...
Attention

UK: Drinking water runs out in flood-hit areas


BBC
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:44 UTC


©Cotswold Aero Club
The Army have begun taking humanitarian aid to Upton-on-Severn, in Worcestershire, after the area was hit by severe flooding.
Read More...
USA

Ohio man tells of Hawaii shark attack


AP
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:47 UTC
All the way back to shore after an eight-foot tiger shark chomped into his left leg, Harvey Miller thought he might die. "I just remember saying, 'Oh God, not like this, no way,'" Miller said Friday, a day after the gray animal attacked him off Oahu's Bellows Beach.

©AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman
Miller, 36, was snorkeling off Bellows Beach along the windward side of Oahu when the attack occurred.

The animal came after the a 36-year-old attorney from Toledo, Ohio, in clear blue waters in an area not known for shark attacks. The last such incident in that area dates back almost 50 years, the state's Shark Task Force said.
Read More...
Stop

Earthquake destroys more than 2,000 houses in northwest China


RIA Novosti
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:53 UTC
An earthquake in a northwest region of China destroyed 2,100 houses and left 8,000 people homeless, Xinhua news agency said Sunday.

The earthquake measuring 5.7 points on the Richter scale rocked northwest China's Xinjiang Yugur autonomous region, on the border with Kazakhstan, Friday.

According to Xinhua, no casualties have yet been reported in the quake.
Read More...
Bizarro Earth

Southeast Europe sizzles, north hit by storms, tornado


Reuters
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:12 UTC
BUCHAREST - Temperatures across central and southwest Europe threatened to top 42 degrees Celsius (107 Fahrenheit) on Saturday in a heat wave that has killed nine people in Romania and caused havoc from Hungary to Greece.
Read More...
Cloud Lightning

Report: Record storms kill 152 in China


AP
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:30 UTC
Record rainfall this week triggered floods, landslides and mud flows that killed 152 people in China and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, state media reported Sunday.

Since the start of the annual rainy season in June, floods have hit nearly half of China's regions and killed at least 400 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Read More...