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Dead minke whale discovered off coast of Narragansett, Rhode Island

Michelle San Miguel
turnto10.com
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:06 UTC
The carcass of a minke whale was found off Narragansett, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017.
© WJAR
The carcass of a minke whale was found off Narragansett, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017.
Environmental officials are trying to remove a dead whale off the Narragansett coast.

The carcass of a minke whale was first spotted on Monday near Hazard Rock.

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management is waiting for the high surf brought on by Hurricane Gert to subside before officials try to retrieve the carcass.

The whale is floating within a fishing trap. Sarah Callan, assistant stranding coordinator at Mystic Aquarium, said DEM told her that it is a legal, stationary fishing trap.

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Solar Flares

Ten spacecraft hit by massive solar flare, says ESA


RT
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 20:14 UTC
powerful solar eruption captured by SOHO
© ESA.int
The European Space Agency revealed that 10 satellites and probes were rocked by a massive solar flare as it swept through the solar system.

The space weather event, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), was observed by three satellites operating outside the path of the flare, namely ESA's Proba-2, the ESA-NASA joint project SOHO and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, in October 2014.

The ESA's Olivier Witasse had been leading the space agency's Mars Express, a project examining the effect of the comet Siding Spring on the atmosphere of the Red Planet. During the research, the team detected signs of the CME on Mars and, in the subsequent investigation, accessed data collected by the 10 spacecraft in its path.

"CME speeds with distance from the sun is not well understood, in particular in the outer Solar System,"said Witasse. "Thanks to the precise timings of numerous in situ measurements, we can better understand the process."
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Cloud Precipitation

Assam floods: Death toll increases by 39 in third wave; 123 killed to date with over 3,345,000 affected


Firstpost
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:55 UTC
flood
The flood situation in Assam continued to deteriorate with 11 more lives lost on Wednesday. Around 33.45 *lakh people in 24 districts of the state remained affected due to the flood.

With the deaths reported on Wednesday, the toll in the third wave of floods has gone up to 39 in the north-eastern state. The floods have claimed 123 lives so far this year in Assam, including eight in Guwahati.

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal left for Delhi on Wednesday to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and apprise him of the preliminary damage caused by the third wave of floods.

According to a report by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), three persons died in Bongaigaon, two each in Dhubri, Nalbari, and Morigaon in flood-related incidents.

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Wolf

Police record huge increase in dangerous dog offences in Kent, UK; from 16 in 2011 to 745 in 2016

Ellis Stephenson
Kent Online
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:06 UTC
Police recorded more than 700 offences involving dangerous dogs.

Police recorded more than 700 offences involving dangerous dogs.
There has been a huge rise in the number of dog attacks in Kent, with action taken against almost 750 owners last year alone.

Figures given to KentOnline following a Freedom of Information request reveal 745 offences were recorded of an owner or person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury in 2016 - a massive 46-fold increase in five years.

Two more offences were logged involving a person owning or being in charge of a dangerous dog that injured an assistance dog last year - one less than in 2015.

In contrast the total number of offences involving dangerous dogs logged in 2010 stood at 19, dropped to 16 in 2011, rose to 97 in 2012, jumped to 321 in 2013, reached 455 in 2014 and then 597 in 2015.

The statistics come as the owner of a dog who attacked nine-year-old Reggi Jarvis faces sentencing this week.

The youngster was bit by a Japanese Akita.

His mum Lecretia Barnes said: "The impact on our family was massive.
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Attention

Millions of animals dead as floods, algae blooms and disease takes it toll around the globe

Gary Walton
The Big Wobble
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:37 UTC
dead fish
10th August 2017 - 90 TONS of fish have died in fish farms in Vung Tau, Vietnam.

Nearly 90 metric tons of farm-raised fish in the southern province of Ba Ria- Vung Tau have been killed once again, leaving local residents with the heavy burden of loss and debt.

9th August 2017 - Hundreds dead Shearwater birds found washed up on Long Island beaches in New York, America.

Hundreds of great shearwaters have turned up dead on beaches on Long Island and southern New England this summer, and no one seems to know why. In addition to the birds on Block Island, birders and biologists have reported dead shearwaters on Rhode Island beaches in Tiverton and Charlestown.
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Bizarro Earth

Alligator found taking a dip in Atlantic City hotel pool

Jeff Goldman
NJ.com
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:10 UTC
Alligator New Jersey hotel

Atlantic City police are investigating how an alligator wound up in a motel pool at the Bayview Inn and Suites in New Jersey on August 15, 2017.

Animal control workers removed a 3-foot alligator found in the outdoor swimming pool of the Bayview Inn & Suites in Atlantic City on Tuesday morning.

The alligator was discovered taking a dip in the pool at the motel on North Albany Avenue, Atlantic City police said in a statement.

It has been safely lifted from the pool around 10 a.m.

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Question

Are the lakes of Oklahoma being terrorized by a freshwater octopus?

Katherine Harmon Courage
Scientific American
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 00:00 UTC
Oklahoma octopus

As the rate of unexplained drowning deaths has reportedly crept up in Oklahoma's placid lakes, some observers have turned to an unusual explanation: a freshwater octopus.

The legend of a killer cephalopod lurking in the murky waters of the state's Lake Thunderbird, Lake Tenkiller or Lake Oolagah has been surfacing for at least the past several years. Animal Planet's Lost Tapes even aired an investigation of this crypto-creature. This beast (or beasts), dubbed the "Oklahoma Octopus," reportedly drags swimmers down with its many strong arms.

How could a sea creature have found its way to lakes in the Heartland?

This unlikely animal, people have explained, might be a rare living fossil, left over from the time (tens of millions of years ago) when this part of the country was, indeed, a shallow sea-and a perfect octopus habitat. Over the millennia, this particular line of octopuses has adapted to freshwater, these proponents suggest.
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Arrow Down

30 by 40 foot sinkhole opens in west Bakersfield, California


The Bakersfield Californian
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:21 UTC
Bakersfield, CA sinkhole
© Felix Adamo
A large sinkhole in west Bakersfield closed traffic Monday on a section of Coffee Road.

The roughly 30 by 40-foot sinkhole occurred just off the roadway shortly after 8 a.m. in the 200 block of Coffee Road, near Westfield Road and north of Stockdale Highway. authorities said.

Bakersfield firefighters said they closed lanes in both directions on Coffee at Westfield Road after arriving at the area, where it's believed a "compromised" 20-inch water main led to the sinkhole.

Construction has been going on nearby, and it's believed workers were trying to tie in the water main for a storm drain system, said Mike Mares, Cal Water's Bakersfield district manager. Water poured out of the main before being shut off before 10 a.m.
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Cloud Precipitation

Nepal floods update: Death toll touches 91


Hindustan Times
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 16:03 UTC
A Nepalese man guides his pigs through floodwaters in Janakpur, 300 km southeast of the capital Kathmandu, on August 14, 2017.

A Nepalese man guides his pigs through floodwaters in Janakpur, 300 km southeast of the capital Kathmandu, on August 14, 2017.
Fourteen people were killed in a landslide in Nepal on Monday, taking the death toll in rain-related incidents across the country to 91 even as a group of stranded Indian nationals were rescued from a national park by using elephants.

Incessant rains over the past few days have resulted in massive flooding and landslides at several places, displacing tens of thousands of people. The monsoon rains have wreaked havoc since Friday in districts spanning the eastern, central and western regions of the country.

According to the home ministry, 91 people were killed and 25 more injured.

Another 38 have been reported missing following landslides and floods over the past three days and the death toll is likely to rise, the ministry said.

The bodies of two Indian nationals were found in Parsa district of Nepal, according to police. Their identities have been established, officials said.

A group of 35 Indians stranded at Sauraha, part of Chitawan national park, were rescued by using elephants, an Indian embassy spokesperson told the media. Earlier reports had quoted authorities as saying that 200 Indian tourists were among some 700 stranded people but the Indian mission said only 35 of them were Indians.

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Cloud Precipitation

Heavy rains kill 41 across the Indian state of Bihar


Hindustan Times
Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:17 UTC
Forty-one people have died in floods in Bihar

Forty-one people have died in floods in Bihar
Heavy rains in the last three days triggered flash floods in parts of Bihar, where 41 people have died so far, and inundated large areas in Assam and North Bengal, paralysing normal life and snapping rail link to the northeast from the rest of the country.

In Arunachal Pradesh too, the flood situation continued to be grim in several districts with recurring landslides disrupting road traffic.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, who conducted an aerial survey of flood-hit areas, said Araria was the worst effected district and water has entered the district headquarters.

Flood waters have engulfed areas in Kisanganj, three blocks of Purnea and one block of Katihar damaging roads.

He said heavy rains in Nepal and Bihar in last three days have led to the situation and the state government is carrying out relief operations in flooded areas on a war-footing.

Forty-one people have died in floods in Bihar so far, said the principal secretary, disaster management department, Pratyay Amrit.

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