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Rising food prices and social unrest: NECSI report predicts world will reach its food price threshold in August 2013

Keshia Pendigrast
Nourishing The Planet
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:33 UTC

In August 2011, Marco Lagi, Yaneer Bar-Yam, and K.Z Bertrand released a report through the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI). The report, "The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East," reveals a link between the background trend of rising global food prices and riots around the globe using data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Food Price Index.

"When you have food prices that peak, you have all these riots. But look under the peaks, at the background trend. That's increasing quite rapidly, too," said Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of NECSI, in an interview with Wired Science. "In one to two years, the background trend runs into the place where all hell breaks loose."

Social unrest, the NECSI report explained, often reflects severe cases of poverty, unemployment, and injustice. While food prices might not be the primary cause of protests, it provides a platform for populations to revolt.

'Rainbow cloud' appears in the sky over Wilsonville, Oregon

Janna Sondenaa
Fox12 Oregon/KPTV
Tue, 16 Jul 2013 05:10 UTC

Did you see a strange rainbow-like cloud in the sky on Friday? You weren't alone. A number of FOX 12 viewers shared their photos of the rainbow cloud. Most of the reports centered in the Wilsonville area.

FOX 12 meteorologist Stephanie Kralevich said it's a fragment of a circumhorizontal arc, which is an optical phenomenon formed by plate-shaped ice crystals in high cirrus clouds. The clouds are common this time of year when the sun is high in the sky and high, thin clouds move by.

More photos here.

Major sinkhole forms in Atlanta, Georgia in Cherokee County

John Spink and Cailin O'Brien
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thu, 11 Jul 2013 07:01 UTC

y residents woke Thursday morning to find a sinkhole that had formed over night on East Cherokee Drive

A water main break in Cherokee County caused a major sinkhole to form under East Cherokee Drive at Holly Springs Road early Thursday morning.

Cherokee County Sheriff spokesman Lt. Jay Baker said that the water main break was called in a little after 2 a.m., on Thursday morning. As deputies closed the road, the asphalt began to sink.

Then the road collapsed.

"Fortunately, we were getting calls about it when water was coming through the road," Baker said. "If it had just happened, it could have been deadly for somebody who drove into it."

The Cherokee County Water and Sewage Authority turned off water for about five houses in the area. Spokesman Dwight Turner said a 20-foot section of PVC pipe had split under East Cherokee Drive, causing water to leak out of the road.

"[The pipe] is probably 30 years old or older," he said. "We've been replacing PVC pipe with ductile iron pipe for many, many years and we will continue to. But we haven't gotten it all done yet. And that's just one of the things that happens."

Ductile iron pipes are thought to last for several decades, Turner said.

Sinkhole Joliet Township, Illinois: Woman injured, then pulled to safety as ground gives way beneath her

Brian Stanley
The Herald-News
Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:36 UTC

Tina Sanchez

One moment Tina Sanchez was standing on the pavement, the next she was in it.

Sanchez had to be pulled out of a sinkhole Monday by East Joliet Firefighters when the ground gave way in the mobile home park where she lives at 1703 S. Chicago St.

About 6 p.m. Sanchez and her son were walking past a nearby home when she stopped to talk to a neighbor near a parking space and a steel drain, she said. Without warning, she fell into the ground and had to hold on to her son and try to brace her feet against the drain, she said.

"I was freaking out," Sanchez said. "The more I kept trying to get up, the more I kept falling in."

Wellington hit by magnitude 5.7 earthquake

Matthew Backhouse
The NZ Herald
Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:06 UTC

People screamed, dived under desks and sheltered in doorways as a "severe" magnitude 5.7 earthquake rocked Wellington this morning.

There have been no reports of damage so far, but workers in the central city have described multi-storey office buildings swaying for at least 30 seconds as the quake hit at 9.06am.

GeoNet said the "severe" quake struck 30km east of Seddon, in Marlborough, at a depth of 8km.

There has been a flurry of smaller shocks since the initial magnitude 5.7 quake, the strongest recorded as magnitude 3.8 at 9.38am.

At least 10 other shocks were recorded in the Marlborough area by 9.45am.

A Fire Service central communications spokeswoman said there were no reports of damage in the Wellington region so far, although an alarm activation may have been caused by the quake.

The quake shook the emergency services communications centre on the seventh floor of the police station on Victoria St in central Wellington for a good 30 seconds, she said.

There have also been no reports of damage in the upper South Island, a Fire Service southern communications spokesman said.

Heat wave in England causes at least 760 deaths

MD
Breitbart.com
Thu, 18 Jul 2013 03:13 UTC

Researchers said up to 760 people have died due to England's latest heat wave as the country enters its sixth day of temperatures above 86 degrees, UPI reported.

Thursday's high temperature is set to hit 88 degrees, following Wednesday's high of 89 degrees. The heat wave marks the longest run of hot weather in Britain in more than seven years, The Independent said.

Temperatures are expected to remain high until at least the end of next week, and researchers said the number of heat-related deaths could double.

Officials have issued a level-three heat wave alert, which warns social and healthcare workers to focus on the old, young and those with breathing and heart conditions.

New clue emerges in mysterious manatee die-off in Florida

Nadia Drake
Wired
Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:31 UTC

© USFWS/Southeast/Flickr
Something mysterious is killing manatees in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon. Whether the culprit is one of several newly discovered algal toxins is still to be determined.

Late last week, a chemist found what might be an important clue in the ongoing mystery surrounding mass animal deaths in Florida's Indian River Lagoon: Multiple unknown toxins, isolated from algae in the lagoon, that kill mammalian cells.

But despite widespread media coverage implying the case is all but closed, the toxins are just one of many clues in a complicated case. Before the toxins can be linked to the deaths, there are many crucial questions that need answers - including whether the compounds are found in the carcasses.

Since last July, 111 manatees, 51 dolphins, and as many as 300 pelicans have died in the northern Indian River Lagoon. Scientists studying the situation are still trying to find the culprit, or culprits, behind the deaths; at this point, they're not even sure the die-offs are all the work of the same killer. The manatees, which normally eat sea grass, die quickly - but their outward appearance doesn't give any clues to what killed them.

Dolphins and pelicans, on the other hand, normally eat fish, and unlike the manatees, their carcasses show signs of starvation and emaciation.

Paralysis killing ravens and crows in B.C. Canada

Gerry Bellett
Vancouver Sun
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:46 UTC

West Nile Virus, which also affects humans, suspected as being the cause

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The death of corvids (such as ravens and crows) can act as an early warning system that West Nile Virus — which also affects humans — has arrived.

A deadly paralysis is striking ravens and crows in the Peace River region.

Leona Green, who runs the Hillspring Wildlife Rehabilitation facility in Dawson Creek, said Wednesday that she has had dozens of reports of ravens and crows being found sitting on the ground unable to use their feet.

"At first it was ravens and now we're seeing crows," said Green.

University of B.C. professor Patrick Mooney, who specializes in biodiversity and urban birds, believes it's possible that the birds have died from contracting the West Nile Virus that is carried by mosquitoes.

"The tip-off is that it started in ravens and now it's being seen in crows," said Mooney.

"Ravens and crows belong to the corvid family of birds and are particularly susceptible to the West Nile Virus. So if I have to guess, that's what I'd say it is," he said.

Dead fish wash up along Neuse river, Craven County, North Carolina

witn.com
Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:37 UTC

Hundreds of dead fish have washed up along the Neuse River in the Carolina Pines neighborhood in Craven County.

River Watch President Rick Dove saw the fish swimming in the river Tuesday night. When he woke up Wednesday morning they were dead along the beach.

While he says he has seen fish kills a lot worst in the past, he is afraid this might just be the beginning.

Dove says, "What the river is telling us here as you look at these dying fish, there is something wrong here and we need to get it fixed."

The majority of the fish are Menhaden. A small percentage of them have sores along their bodies.

Australian bird experts and scientists left puzzled as birds fall dead from north Queensland skies

Peter Michael
The Courier-Mail
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:54 UTC

© News Limited
A juvenile black kite soaring on thermals in the wild. Scientists are investigating a mass run of deaths among the raptors.

Experts are looking for clues as to why common black kites are falling dead from north Queensland skies.

Black kites, also known as shite-hawks and firebirds, are medium-sized birds of prey and are among the few raptor species which gather in flocks.

Testing has so far excluded bird flu and Newcastle disease, both highly contagious viral infections linked to mass deaths of migratory wild birds, and transmissible to humans.

But the cause of the latest spate of deaths, possibly linked to a cross-border infection, is still a mystery.

Biosecurity Queensland has confirmed it is testing "several kites in relation to unexplained deaths in the tropical north Queensland region''.

"The exact number of bird deaths is unknown and estimates are not available at this stage of the investigation,'' a spokesman told The Courier-Mail.

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Earth Changes

Rising food prices and social unrest: NECSI report predicts world will reach its food price threshold in August 2013

'Rainbow cloud' appears in the sky over Wilsonville, Oregon

Major sinkhole forms in Atlanta, Georgia in Cherokee County

Sinkhole Joliet Township, Illinois: Woman injured, then pulled to safety as ground gives way beneath her

Wellington hit by magnitude 5.7 earthquake

Heat wave in England causes at least 760 deaths

New clue emerges in mysterious manatee die-off in Florida

Paralysis killing ravens and crows in B.C. Canada

Dead fish wash up along Neuse river, Craven County, North Carolina

Australian bird experts and scientists left puzzled as birds fall dead from north Queensland skies

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