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Klyuchevskoy Volcano
Klyuchevskoy Volcano
"Today, the volcano emitted steam and gas with ash as high as 7 km above sea level. The ash spread 68 km in an eastward direction," the response team specified, adding that an orange hazard code was declared for aircraft.
The Kamchatka Regional Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry elaborated that there are no communities along the course, which the ash is being blown.
Klyuchevskoy is Eurasia's highest active volcano, reaching 4,750 meters high, and one of the most active on the peninsula. In 2016, up to 10 lava flows oozed down its slope simultaneously during an eruption. The nearest community - the village of Klyuchi in the Kamchatka Region- is located 30 km away from the volcano base. Ash falls are frequently observed there during eruptions.
Road conditions worsen in Calgary
Data released by Environment Canada indicate southern portions of the city bore the heaviest brunt of the storm, receiving almost twice as much snow as Calgary's northern areas before it tapered off late Wednesday morning.
The storm also broke the day's previous snowfall record of 11.7 cm set in 1953.
Calgary's snowfall was part of a larger system that blanketed much of southwestern Alberta in snow, with the hamlet of Beaver Mines west of Pincher Creek getting as much as 60 cm of precipitation.
Manatees endure another deadly year
Statewide, 101 manatees died from boat strikes, 20 percent of this year's 513 manatee deaths. That was a typical percentage of the overall deaths but also the second highest boat-strike manatee death toll on record. Last year, a record 106 manatees died from boat strikes, according to statistics compiled by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
But boats tend to kill only about 1 percent of the manatee population, which some estimates put in the range of 8,000 or more manatees, statewide, boating advocates say. So slowing down their boats with go-slow zones shouldn't be the focus of manatee protections, some boaters assert. State biologists counter that they recover an unknown percentage of the overall manatee carcasses in any given year. Also unknown, they say, is how many of the manatees they find too rotted to tell what killed them had died from boat strikes.
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Comment: Google Translation:
At first I thought that these Sky Sounds were just fake. But now I have heard it too. They really do exist. A day before, there were two very loud ones like explosions in the sky. Thousands have heard it. There were no supersonic aircraft to see or hear. The video was taken with a Samsung tablet, and unedited in its original condition. Listen and see for yourself.
The sounds start at about 1:20.
Bettie Bee, the two-faced kitten, is eight days old in this picture.
When a house cat in Eastern Cape, South Africa, birthed three kittens, it was clear that one of them was unique. While otherwise apparently normal, this special kitten's double face made it difficult for her to nurse, which meant she was at risk of starving to death. The cat-owner brought the strange kitten to a nearby cat rescuer who is known for taking in special-needs cats.
The rescuer, who wishes to remain anonymous, started tube-feeding the kitten. She wrote in an email to Newsweek that she "can feed either mouth, both are functional, both lead to the stomach." Because so many people wanted to see the kitten, the rescuer started a Facebook page for Bettie Bee with pictures and updates.
A killer whale calf is believed to have died in agony after being blown ashore by the ferocious 90mph gales of Storm Caroline
Tragic images show the young orca's body on a grassy Shetland shoreline almost three weeks after the storm hit.
The three-metre long whale is thought to have died of dehydration or been crushed by its own body weight after becoming stranded.
It was discovered by a member of the public on the west coast of Shetland's main island at least 25 metres from the shoreline
The orca was probably separated from its mother by the weather, according to the Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary
Hillswick, the island's only wild animal rehabilitation centre, reported the beaching to the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme (SMAS) who have carried out a post-mortem.
Tiny bits of plastic are contaminating mussels from the European Arctic to China, a new study has revealed. Mussels in apparently pristine Arctic waters had most plastic of any tested along the Norwegian coast, according to the researchers (stock image)
Mussels in apparently pristine Arctic waters had the most plastic of any tested along the Norwegian coast, according to the researchers.
The worrying discovery is a sign of the global spread of ocean pollution that can end up on people's dinner plates.
A study by researchers from the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) found that plastic had been found in mussels in Arctic waters.
Amy Lusher, one of the researchers who worked on the study, said that plastics may be getting swept north by ocean currents and winds from Europe and America, ending up swirling around the Arctic Ocean.
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The study by researchers from Dartmouth College, the University of Maine and the University of New Hampshire, shows modern snowfall levels in the Alaska Range at the highest in at least 1,200 years, averaging some 18 feet per year from around 8 feet per year from 1600-1840.
"We were shocked when we first saw how much snowfall has increased," said Erich Osterberg, an assistant professor of earth sciences at Dartmouth College and principal investigator for the research. "We had to check and double-check our results to make sure of the findings."
The research was based on an analysis of two ice core samples collected at 13,000 feet from Mount Hunter in Alaska's Denali National Park. The study suggests that warming tropical oceans have driven the increased snowfall by strengthening the northward flow of warm, moist air.
Comment: It's worth noting that Ice Ages begin with warming oceans which trigger increased precipitation in northern regions. Interested readers should check out Pierre Lescaudron's excellent book Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.
The research builds on a previous study using the same ice cores that showed an intensification of winter storm activity in Alaska and Northwestern Canada, driven by the same strengthening "Aleutian Low" system.
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An image of the Earth constructed from NASA’s Terra satellite.
An image of the Earth constructed from NASA’s Terra satellite.
"The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for small, natural fluctuations in the circulation patterns of the atmosphere and ocean to result in a 1% or 2% decrease in global cloud cover. Clouds are the Earth's sunshade, and if cloud cover changes for any reason, you have global warming - or global cooling."Today, we have news of something that modulates cloud cover in a new paper by Henrik Svensmark in Nature Communications.
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