Earth Changes

Radioactive wild boars running rampant in Fukushima after people evacuated

Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura
NY Times
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC

Radioactive boars have settled into where people have evacuated. Can you blame them?

They descend on towns and villages, plundering crops and rampaging through homes. They occasionally attack humans. But perhaps most dangerous of all, the marauders carry with them highly radioactive material.

Hundreds of toxic wild boars have been roaming across northern Japan, where the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant six years ago forced thousands of residents to desert their homes, pets and livestock. Some animals, like cattle, were left to rot in their pens.

As Japan prepares to lift some evacuation orders on four towns within the more than 12-mile exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant later this month, officials are struggling to clear out the contaminated boars.

Comment: The Japanese government has tried to keep under wraps, the true extent of the damage that the Fukushima Nuclear Plant fallout has caused. And with these boars showing signs of being irradiated 300 times what's considered the safety limit, is it any wonder most people don't want to move back to the area?

State of emergency declared following floods in Amazonas, Brazil; Juruá river 4 metres above flood level

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:12 UTC

Floods in Amazonas state, Brazil, March 2017.

The Juruá river in the northern state of Amazonas, Brazil, has overflowed affecting more than 6,000 families in four municipalities.

Civil Defence officials have been monitoring the situation since heavy rainfall in early January. However levels of the river recently increased dramatically and a state of emergency has been declared in the municipalities of Guajará, Ipixuna, Eirunepé and Itamarati.

As of 07 March, 2017, the Juruá river in Guajará reached 16.68 metres where the flood level is 12.64 metres.

Amazonas Civil Defence have started to distribute food and other emergency supplies including medicine, hygiene kit, sleeping equipment and water purification kits.

Elsewhere in the state increasing levels of the Juruá have placed on alert communities in the municipalities of Juruá, Carauari and Envira.

38 killed, 53,000 displaced in Madagascar cyclone

PressTV
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:29 UTC

small building damaged by a tree in a street in Sambava, Madagascar, on March 8, 2017.

Nearly 40 people have lost their lives and 180 others sustained injuries since a powerful cyclone battered the island nation of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean mid-last week.

The national disaster management office in Madagascar (BNGC) made the announcement on Friday, saying that 38 people had been killed countrywide by tropical cyclone Enawo and an estimated 53,000 people displaced by storm waters.

More than 32,000 people have been affected in the capital city of Antananarivo alone, the agency said in an emailed statement.

"The damage is enormous wherever the cyclone has gone," said Thierry Venty, the executive secretary of the BNGC agency, without providing further details on overall damage and casualties.

At least 12 injured after stray dogs attack locals in Guntur, India

The News Minute
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:36 UTC

Image for representation

At least 12 people were injured on Friday after stray dogs attacked residents of Lingamguntla and Pedakurapadu, two villages in Andhra's Guntur district.

Most of the victims were reported to be agricultural labourers, who were rushed and treated at the Pedakurapadu Primary Health Centre (PHC).

Other reports added that the absence of dog sterilisation in the villages was the main reason behind the increase in the number of dogs.

Guntur has been plagued with stray dog attacks over the past year, as many victims are rushed to the Government General Hospital (GGH) every month.

Lightning bolt kills 5 in southern Tanzania

en.apa.az
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:24 UTC

A lightning strike on Friday killed five people, including two pupils, in Tanzanian southern region of Lindi, local official said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

The lightning strike followed heavy rains that were accompanied by strong winds, said Shaibu Ndemanga, the Lindi District Commissioner.

Ndemanga added that three people were admitted to hospital following injuries they sustained after a roof of their house collapsed due to the strong winds.

Ndemanga said at least 53 houses were destroyed by the rains leaving at least 250 families homeless.

Comment: Other reports of recent deaths: Lightning strike kills labourer in Purulia, India

Lightning strike kills farmer in Sherpur, Bangladesh

Lightning kills woman in Tamil Nadu, India

Early season tornado forms near Würzburg, Germany

The Watchers
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:25 UTC

A single small cell produced an early season tornado near Würzburg, Germany on March 9, 2017. Pictures and videos of this rather photogenic twister soon started circulating social media.

According to local police reports, the tornado destroyed a lot in the Unterfrische Kürnach near Würzburg, some 20 to 30 roofs were damaged and at least two trees uprooted. Nobody was hurt.

The thunderstorm that produced it developed during the afternoon hours in the Main-Kinzig circle in Hesse and then moved on in the direction of Würzburg. It was a single small cell that later produced the tornado near Würzburg.

German Meteorological Service said it was not unexpected, but not very likely as tornadoes are not unusual at this time of the year. It is a bit early for them, but not unheard of.

EPA Chief Pruitt: Carbon dioxide isn't "primary contributor" to global warming

RT
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:34 UTC

Scott Pruitt, President Trump's new administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, does not think carbon dioxide is the primary contributor to global warming, a belief his own agency contradicts.

On Thursday, CNBC "Squawk Box" host Joe Kernen asked Pruitt if he believes that carbon dioxide has been proven to be the "primary control knob" for climate change.

"I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see," Pruitt said.

"But we don't know that yet. ... We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis," he said.

Pruitt's statements run contrary to the EPA web site, which definitively states: "Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change."

Comment: Pruitt happens to be right.

Signs and Portents: Hunters in East Texas find a '1 headed, 2 bodied, 8 legged pig'

Ryan Osborne
Star-Telegram
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:31 UTC

Hunters in East Texas made an interesting discovery Tuesday night when they came across an eight-legged pig.

That's right, a "1 headed, 2 bodied, 8 legged pig!" as hunter Jesse Garcia put it in a Facebook post, which included a picture of the rare swine.

Garcia, 21, was hunting about midnight with friends Toby Taylor, Cody Cooper and Bret Taylor near Garrison, northeast of Nacogdoches, when their hog dog got a hold of a sow, a grown female pig.

After cutting her open, Garcia and his buddies started finding babies. That's when they noticed something they'd never seen before.

One of the little pigs "had two legs coming out of the chest and two legs coming out of its back," Garcia said.

Dog attacks reported to police in Wales increase by 25% in a year

BBC
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:29 UTC

There were 634 reported dog attacks in Wales in 2016, up by 124 from the year before, according to latest figures.

In total, 99 were seized by police under the Dangerous Dogs Act, down 60 from 159 in 2015.

Figures were obtained from all Welsh police forces using a request under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.

National Police Chiefs' Council spokesman Deputy Chief Constable Gareth Pritchard said many people bought dogs without knowing their temperament.

North Wales Police said attacks rose from 158 to 246 in the area. In south Wales, it went up from 298 to 332 and in Dyfed-Powys' area the numbers increased from 45 to 53.

Gwent Police recorded number decreased from nine to three, in the figures obtained for BBC Radio Wales' Jason Mohammad Show.

Lightning bolt kills 2 pupils in Khulna, Bangladesh

Business News 24
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:15 UTC

Two female Madrasah students were killed as lightning struck them in Mundapara area of Patharkhali village under Koyra upazila of the district on Thursday.

The deceased were identified as Rabeya Khatun, 13, daughter of Didarul Gazi and Rahima Khatun, 13, daughter of Atiar Rahman. They were the students of class nine in Bedkashi Habibiya Khatun Madrasa.

Locals said that the victims were stuck by lighting on the way to their private tutor's home around 2:00pm, leaving them dead on the spot.

Bedkashi union UP Chairman Sardar Nurul Islam confirmed the matter to risingbd.com.

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Earth Changes

Radioactive wild boars running rampant in Fukushima after people evacuated

State of emergency declared following floods in Amazonas, Brazil; Juruá river 4 metres above flood level

38 killed, 53,000 displaced in Madagascar cyclone

At least 12 injured after stray dogs attack locals in Guntur, India

Lightning bolt kills 5 in southern Tanzania

Early season tornado forms near Würzburg, Germany

EPA Chief Pruitt: Carbon dioxide isn't "primary contributor" to global warming

Signs and Portents: Hunters in East Texas find a '1 headed, 2 bodied, 8 legged pig'

Dog attacks reported to police in Wales increase by 25% in a year

Lightning bolt kills 2 pupils in Khulna, Bangladesh

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