Almost completely dried up…
On Monday, the water had disappeared... And they found this giant 30 meters by 20 meters fissure in the ground.
Before / After. Segments of the River Atoyac are completely dry.
Earth Changes
Almost completely dried up…
On Monday, the water had disappeared... And they found this giant 30 meters by 20 meters fissure in the ground.
Before / After. Segments of the River Atoyac are completely dry.
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The volcano was shrouded in clouds for most of the week, but volcanologists said the ash column above the volcano at one point reached some 4,000m high. Experts said ground vibrations could also be felt during the eruptions, but they did not have exact measurements for the height of the ash columns. The Geophysical Institute believes ongoing activity and varying degrees of intensity will continue in coming days.
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A 10-foot-long dolphin was found on Wednesday morning at Bhuigaon beach in Vasai.
A 10-foot-long dolphin was found on Wednesday morning at Bhuigaon beach in Vasai.
A 10-foot-long dolphin was found on Wednesday morning at Bhuigaon beach at Vasai. Residents from the area spotted the mutilated carcass around 6.30am and informed local municipal authorities and the forest department.
"The dolphin had several injuries on its head, body and tail," said Mecanzy Dabre, a local.
"The carcass remained on the beach even in the evening since nobody took it away."
On Tuesday, the body of a six-and-a-half-foot dolphin was washed ashore at Gorai beach and was seen by locals around 10am.
Chicken has an extra set of legs
Li Guanglin, 67, a chicken farmer in Hefei area, said he was preparing to slaughter the hen last month when he discovered it had four legs and four feet.
The chicken, born last August, walks on two legs while the others are folded near its bottom.
The farmer said he is keeping the chicken in its own separate living quarters to prevent it from being bullied by the other chickens.
Li said he has been offered more than $100 for the chicken, but he decided to keep the unusual animal and have it continue to produce eggs, which he believes could prove especially valuable.
Bizarre: The lamb was born with two penises and seven legs
Farmer Batyrbek Sulaymanov was stunned when he went to help a ewe giving birth and found that the lamb he pulled out had more than four legs.
However, he found that the newborn was able to walk easily around his farm in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan.
It also appeared to be healthy apart from three extra non-functioning legs.
The man from the village of Kyzyl-Ay then decided to put it back with the rest of the flock after feeding it fresh milk.
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Yet another sinkhole has opened up along Beach Boulevard. A snapshot shows the depression in the sidewalk of the Beach Boulevard Promenade that was reported to the city's Department of Public Works on Saturday afternoon.
It was first thought to be 4 feet by 6 feet, but when crews opened it up, they found that the erosion underneath was much larger than that. It was 14 feet by 10 feet, and 8 feet deep, according to Van Ocampo from the public works department. The sinkhole is located right in front of the Pacifica Pier. The hole has now been filled in and patched over. This is the third sinkhole the city has had to deal with.
There were two more at Beach and Paloma that opened up within days of each other in February. And back in January, there was a breach of the seawall that had to be repaired.
And there has been other trouble too. Erosion of the cliffs caused the evacuation of an apartment building further north on Esplanade Avenue. What is behind it all is the strong waves being produced by this El Nino season, pounding the shoreline and, in the case of the sinkholes, eating away the soil underneath the promenade.
Those out enjoying the view on Wednesday said they are not sure what can be done about it. "When mother nature says she wants her land back, she's going to come and get it...," said Tony Martinez, who said he enjoys fishing on the pier.
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Floods Angola
Floods Angola
Angola news agency ANGOP reports that heavy rain fell for around 9 hours on Monday 29 February 2016. Local media report that two rivers - the Capitao and the Caculuvar - overflowed.
The worst affected areas were the Tchioco and Canguinda districts of the city. It is thought that the flood water may have swept through a local market in Tchioco, where many young people work washing cars. Many of the victims are aged between 12 and 30, ANGOP report. Local emergency services said bodies were found up to 500 metres downstream.
The funerals of the victims took place yesterday. During the ceremony, retired archbishop of Lubango, Dom Zacarias Kamwenho, called for an end to building houses in risk areas. Lubango has been the site of several forced mass evictions to make way for public infrastructure projects. Families were left with no alternative housing, according to Human Rights Watch.
Comment: Warning, some may find the following video upsetting.
The funnel-shaped waterspout (in circle).
"The average spout is around 50 meters in diameter, with wind speeds of 80 kilometres per hour," Technical Advisor (Marine Fisheries), WWF-Pakistan, Muhammad Moazzam Khan said, adding that a powerful waterspout could capsize boats, damage ships and endanger human life.
The WWF-Pakistan said that one of its trained fishermen, Mahar Gul, hailing from Lower Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reported the rare weather phenomenon that had been obscure until it was captured on phone camera. It lauded the fishermen for their keenness to record such rare events on the seas.
Moazzam Khan said that the fair-weather waterspouts were usually formed along the cumulus type of clouds. "This type of waterspout is generally not associated with thunderstorms, which usually dissipates in short time," he said, adding that such waterspouts lived between five minutes and 10 minutes normally but most up to an hour.
A great white pelican extends its wings near smaller American white pelicans on Sanibel
By night we sleep on the cliffs above;
By day we fish, and at eve we stand
On long bare islands of yellow sand
— From "The Pelican Chorus," by Edward Lear
Sanibel Island's a long way from the Nile, but a great white pelican has appeared at the J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge there — a good 4,000 miles from its home range, and the first time the Old World species has been recorded in North America.
Unlike the more common brown pelicans seen in Southwest Florida, which max out around 11 pounds and have a 6 1/2-foot wingspan, or even the larger American white pelican, which winters here, these birds can tip the scales at 33 pounds, with an almost 12-foot wingspan.
First spotted Sunday, the stray pelican immediately made waves in the birding community, including among "Ding" Darling staff, who promptly made it the refuge's Facebook cover photo.
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Lava flows from Fuego volcano during an eruption as seen from Alotenango, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 2.
Lava flows from Fuego volcano during an eruption as seen from Alotenango, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 2.
A spokesman for the country's disaster response agency, David de Leon, said the 3,763-meter (12,346-foot) high volcano had entered a new eruptive phase with increasing explosive activity, prompting an orange alert indicating danger.
The volcano sent ash plumes billowing more than 2,000 meters above the crater; they then spread as far as 40 kilometers to the west, southwest and north, the spokesman said.
He added that rural communities surrounding the volcano, as well as the urban municipalities of San Pedro Yepocapa and Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa de Escuintla, reported fine ash particles falling from the sky.
