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Illinois police warn residents to stay away from 'zombie dogs'


RT
Sat, 02 Sep 2017 15:01 UTC
mangy coyote
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
Residents of a Chicago suburb are being warned to keep their pets indoors for fear that they could be bitten by wandering 'zombie dogs.'

Police in Hanover Park issued the warning in a Facebook post Thursday after receiving several reports that malnourished or neglected stray dogs are roaming around the Illinois village.

The authorities go on to make clear that the 'dogs' are not domestic animals, rather urban coyotes infected with sarcoptic mange, a highly contagious skin disease which gives them the look of the undead.

"There is unfortunately an increase in sarcoptic mange in the urban coyote populations which has caused these normally nocturnal animals to become more active during the day. Infected animals will often appear 'mangy' - which looks just like it sounds," Hanover Police said.

"They suffer hair loss and develop secondary infections, eventually looking like some sort of 'zombie' dog. The infections affect their vision, causing them to look for food during the daylight hours."
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Cloud Precipitation

Flash flood hits Karachi, Pakistan killing 16, at least 11 electrocuted

Sophia Saifi and Steve George
CNN
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 11:43 UTC
FLOOD
Flash monsoon flooding in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, has claimed the lives of at least 16 people, most of them children, officials confirmed Friday.

At least 11 deaths have been attributed to electrocution, as rising waters become electrified in low-lying urban areas, according to the Edhi Foundation, the city's main emergency aid agency.

Karachi is the latest major South Asian city to be hit by heavy monsoon rains amid a widening flood-related crisis engulfing much of the region. More than 1,200 have died and upwards of 41 million people have been affected in neighboring India, Nepal and Bangladesh, according to estimates provided by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

Figures released by the city's Meteorological Department show Karachi normally receives an average of 19.9mm of rain in September. On Wednesday, northern parts of the city received 97mm, equivalent to five times that amount.

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Yellowstone earthquake swarm now one of largest on record, with over 2,300 tremors since start of June

Hannah Osborne
Newsweek
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 11:28 UTC
View of the Grand Prismatic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park.
© Mark Ralston
View of the Grand Prismatic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park
An ongoing earthquake swarm at Yellowstone volcano is now one of the biggest ever recorded, with over 2,300 tremors since it began in June.

As of August 30, 2,357 earthquakes had been recorded. The most powerful in recent weeks was magnitude 3.3; it took place on August 21.

The most powerful in the current swarm was a magnitude 4.4, which was recorded on June 15. Most of the earthquakes were in the magnitude 0 or 1 range, with a further 181 recorded at magnitude 2 and 11 at magnitude 3. Another 53 were less than 0, meaning they were very small events that could be detected only with sensitive earthquake-monitoring instruments.

Jamie Farrell, a research professor at the University of Utah, which is involved in monitoring seismic activity at Yellowstone, told Newsweek that the swarm was "nothing out of the ordinary" and that it had "slowed down significantly but does occasionally have little bursts of activity that lasts for a few hours."
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Info

Record heat in Taiwan, is it the temperature station placement?

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 10:47 UTC
Meteorological measurement tools in Taipei, Taiwan.

Meteorological measurement tools in Taipei, Taiwan.
A new record was broken for most consecutive days over 35C in Taipei Taiwan in mid August. What they neglect to tell you is that several stations were removed, leaving the stations next to roads, highways and subway lines. A list of earthquakes to compare against USGS to see if there are removed quakes from Asia.

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Cloud Lightning

Woman killed by lightning in Saint-Trojan-les-Bains, France


The Connexion
Sat, 02 Sep 2017 10:33 UTC
Image for illustration only
© Will Fisher
Image for illustration only
51-year-old was on a beach on the Ile d'Oléron when she was struck

A holidaymaker has died after being struck by lightning while on a beach on the Ile d'Oléron.

Emergency services said the 51-year-old, from the Dordogne, was on the beach at Saint-Trojan-les-Bains with her husband when she was hit at about 8.30am on Friday.

Although local storms were forecast in the area, it was raining, but not stormy, at the time, 20minutes.fr reports.

Her husband raised the alarm, and gave first aid until the emergency services arrived - but the woman was declared dead at the scene.
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Seismograph

Magnitude 5.2 earthquake shakes Greek island of Rhodes

Lia Pavlou
Greek Reporter
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 21:18 UTC
Rhodes earthquake
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit south east off the coast of the island of Rhodes at 19:48 (local) on Friday, according to the Greek Department of Geophysics at the University of Athens.

The quake's epicenter was located in the Aegean Sea at a depth of 43km below the seabed. There are no reports of injuries, or damages.

Earthquakes have historically caused widespread damage across central and southern Greece, Cyprus, Sicily and other neighboring regions.
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Better Earth

Australian researchers: 'We found evidence of microplastics pretty much everywhere we looked'

Lorraine Chow
Ecowatch
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:32 UTC
microplastics
© Science Alert
A lot of attention is paid to the floating junkyards on our high seas, but a new study highlights how the problem of marine plastic goes much deeper.

Australian researchers were surprised to find high concentrations of microplastics embedded in the seafloor along the southeast coast of Australia.

Scientists with the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies sampled marine sediments at 42 locations from Adelaide to Sydney and discovered these tiny particles at every location, from busy city harbors to seemingly pristine locations.

Comment: Full scale of plastic pollution in the world's oceans revealed for first time

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Better Earth

There's too much ice! Arctic explorers give up sailing into the 'melting' North Pole

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:23 UTC
ice cover
© NSIDC
From the arcticmission reports, where they try to put the best spin on this colossal failure as reported by the BBC:
Pen Hadow sets sail for North Pole as Arctic ice melts
British explorer Pen Hadow and his crew have set sail from Alaska, in an attempt to become the first people ever to sail to the North Pole.

With Arctic ice melting at an unprecedented rate, previously inaccessible waters are opening up, creating the potential for their planned 5,500 km (3,500 mile) journey for the first time in human history.
Um, no. Above is the view of the North pole today, as reported by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
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Seismograph

Houston provides a grim vision of Los Angeles after a catastrophic earthquake

Rong-Gong Lin II
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:00 UTC
Earthquake city
© Santa Clarita Radio
For years, scientists have drawn up terrifying scenarios of widespread destruction and chaos that would come to Southern California when a catastrophic earthquake hits.

Their efforts to warn the public may get an unlikely boost from the unprecedented disaster unfolding in Houston, where Tropical Storm Harvey dumped trillions of gallons of rain across Texas and brought America's fourth-largest city to its knees.

While epic flooding is different from a powerful temblor, both natural disasters fundamentally alter daily life for months or years.

In recent years, officials have drawn up detailed scenarios of what would happen if a huge quake struck this region, part of a larger campaign to better prepare.

The last two big earthquakes to hit Los Angeles - the 1971 Sylmar quake and 1994 Northridge quake - caused destruction and loss of life. But the worst damage was concentrated in relatively small areas and did not fundamentally bring daily life across all of Southern California to a halt.

Experts have long warned that a significantly larger quake will eventually strike and that the toll will be far greater.

Comment: Heads-up, folks. We are heading into rocky times with potentially devastating events. For excellent research on this topic and its correlation to extended solar minimums and increased volcanism: Upheaval!, Why Catastrophic Earthquakes Will Soon Strike the United States, by author John L. Casey.

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Attention

Moment of powerful sinkhole implosion caught on camera in Mexico City (VIDEO)


RT
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 11:45 UTC
Mexico City sinkhole
© Paul Contreras / YouTube
The dramatic moment a massive sinkhole devoured part of a street in Mexico City was captured by a witness determined to get the shot despite the nearby road crumbling into oblivion.

An underground tunnel was exposed when a 10-meter-wide and 20-meter-deep sinkhole suddenly opened between Colon and Humboldt street in the city center on Thursday.
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