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Red alerts for torrential rain reduced to orange after morning of flooding chaos on the Costa Blanca, Spain

Tom Thirkell
Euro Weekly News
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:38 UTC
Alicante province was inundated this morning
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Alicante province was inundated this morning
THE RED alert, advised by the Spanish met office AEMET, for torrential rainfall on the Costa Blanca has ended and has been replaced by a less severe orange level threat as the worst of today's weather subsides.

This morning, the province of Valencia and much of the province of Alicante were placed on a red, severe threat to life, level of advisory ahead of treacherous weather conditions arriving to Spain's east coast.

This red level warning was deescalated after 3pm on Monday afternoon, with an orange, medium risk to life, advisory enforced in its place.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: (NASA) What they mean about Earth cooling and atmosphere shifting


Adapt 2030
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:34 UTC
Snow
More articles out about our planet cooling for a decade or two before the global warming march continues in 2030's. NASA saying look out for global cooling, beer prices doubling, 40 foot waves rip apart apartments Canary Islands, 30F below normal record breaking temperatures on tap for Canada and USA plus ice storms and crop destroying fronts in Asia.


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Comment: View video: Enormous waves wipe away balconies in Tenerife, Canary Islands

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Teenager bitten on leg and arm in second shark attack in Australia over weekend


The Guardian
Sun, 18 Nov 2018 19:39 UTC
A 17-year-old suffered ‘deep lacerations’
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A 17-year-old suffered ‘deep lacerations’ when he was bitten by a suspected reef shark about 30km offshore from Nhulunbuy on Sunday.
A teenager has been attacked by a shark while spearfishing off the Northern Territory coast.

The 17-year-old was bitten on his arm and leg about 30km offshore from Nhulunbuy in Arnhem Land on Sunday morning, NT police said.

He was treated by paramedics who reached his vessel with police, before being taken to hospital in Gove.

The boy was later airlifted to Royal Darwin hospital suffering "deep lacerations", a Careflight spokesman said.

The ABC reported that authorities believe the teenager was bitten by a reef shark.

Sunday's attack comes after a man was airlifted to hospital after a shark bit him at a beach south of Wollongong on Saturday.

Comment: Related article: Man dies after stingray attack while swimming near Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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Monkey bites CHUNK out of toddler's head after climbing in through balcony door in Parana, Brazil


Daily Star (UK)
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:30 UTC
Return of the monkey: Video footage shows the same howler monkey returning to the flat a week after it broke in and attacked the toddler

Return of the monkey: Video footage shows the same howler monkey returning to the flat a week after it broke in and attacked the toddler
Julia Balardim's mum Luciana desperately tried to wrench the animal off her 21-month-old daughter after hearing her screams.

She saved her from the wild animal's jaws, but the child has had to undergo emergency plastic surgery to reconstruct part of her forehead after suffering a horrific bite.

The monkey bit down into her skull, exposing the bone underneath, Julia's dad says.

And relatives believe little Julia would have been killed if her mother hadn't reacted so quickly.

Comment: This is the third attack by primates on a human within a week, the other 2 involving fatalities: Woman killed by monkeys in Agra, India just days after baby dies in similar attack

Newborn baby is killed by MONKEY after being snatched from his mother's arms indoors in India

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Mysterious bird deaths, including a bald eagle, under investigation in Hillsboro, Oregon

Marja Martinez
KPTV
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:50 UTC
Mysterious mass bird deaths in Hills

Mysterious mass bird deaths in Hillsboro
Several protected species of birds, including one bald eagle, dropped from the sky in north Hillsboro and their deaths are now a mystery.

Nearly two dozen birds were discovered in a field across from Lipman Lighting on Monday.

One of the men who found them says Oregon State Police picked the animals up earlier this week, but when FOX 12 visited the property Thursday, two additional dead birds were found.

There's no answer yet as to what's killing them.

Comment: Local station KGW8 adds:
Dozens of red-winged blackbirds and European starlings were found dead in a field off West Union Road, along with a bald eagle and a red-tailed hawk. There were no obvious signs of death. The birds are being tested by wildlife officials to figure out how they died.

A man who works nearby first spotted the eagle in the field on Monday and checked it out. Then he found the hawk nearby along with many small birds.

It is unusual and concerning for this many birds to die at once and for there to be several species involved, according to Bob Sallinger, conservation director for the Audubon Society of Portland.

Sallinger is not connected to the case, so can't speak to specifics about it. But he did share a general concern.

"The things we do think about are poisons and toxins. In these kinds of situations it can be an intentional situation, it can be something that they got into that was unintentional," Sallinger said.


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Seismic records show Newfoundland was literally shaking from vicious windstorm


CBC.ca
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:51 UTC
Giant waves in Canada

Seismometer in St. John's shows how intense Thursday's winds were

The waves crashing into the rugged shoreline of Newfoundland and Labrador this week led to waves of a different kind.

The squiggly black lines produced by a Natural Resources Canada seismometer show the seismic activity of a vicious windstorm that whipped across the province on Wednesday and Thursday.

The wind and waves were so strong, the island was shaking.

"What we saw over the past 48 hours was quite a dramatic change in [activity]," said John Cassidy, an earthquake seismologist with Natural Resources Canada.

"It was very noticeable and in our seismic data, our plots, it just jumped off the page. You could just see that shaking."


Comment: The windstorm that struck Newfoundland and Labrador was the "most intense storm" on the planet, according to a meteorologist in Gander. Wild, whipping winds gusting upwards of 130 km/h caused huge waves, delays, cancellations and closures across the province reports CBC.

According to the Weather Network the effects of the incredibly strong low pressure system that moved through Atlantic Canada would cause more than ripples across the Atlantic Ocean this week, causing giant waves to track towards Europe and Africa. See also: Enormous waves wipe away balconies in Tenerife, Canary Islands



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Woman killed by monkeys in Agra, India just days after baby dies in similar attack

Dave Burke
Mirror
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:18 UTC
A woman has died after a monkey attack in Agra
© AFP/Getty Images
A woman has died after a monkey attack in Agra, India, just days after the death of a baby (file picture)
Bhoomi Devi, 58, bled to death after being attacked outside her home in Agra, India

A woman has been killed by a monkey - just days after a 12-day-old baby died nearby in a similar attack.

Authorities confirmed Bhoomi Devi was fatally injured by primates in the Indian city of Agra.

The 58-year-old suffered severe injuries, and medics were unable to save her.

A relative said that she bled to death as a result of the attack, which happened outside her home.

A family member told NDTV : "She had lost so much blood that doctors could do nothing to save her."

The latest tragedy, which happened on Wednesday, happened just five days after the child, called Arush, was snatched from his mum as she breastfed him.

Comment: See also: Newborn baby is killed by MONKEY after being snatched from his mother's arms indoors in India

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NewsReal: California Wildfires, Climate Change, And The Impossible Brexit


Sott.net
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:00 UTC
newsreal california wildfires brexit
When Trump weighed in on the record-breaking California wildfire season last week, he was - as usual - roundly condemned in the media for 'insensitivity', 'stupidity' and 'ignorance'. But what if his comments about forest management and climate change were actually well-informed?

This week on NewsReal With Joe & Niall, your hosts discuss the raging California wildfires and the pretentious ideological beliefs that lead federal and state authorities to go way beyond their station by attempting (and repeatedly failing) to tackle local environmental problems via hare-brained measures intended to 'save the planet'.

Also discussed on this episode is the interminable 'Brexit' fiasco. This political wildfire flared again last week when May's govt announced that 'a Brexit deal' had been settled with the EU. 'Brexit' in name only, the deal effectively keeps the UK in the EU, which led to the mass resignation of govt ministers and the threat of an imminent leadership challenge.

Watch to learn why the UK cannot leave the EU...


Running Time: 01:27:46

Download: MP3

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Fire truck on the way to an emergency falls into a sinkhole in Kiev, Ukraine


RT
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:44 UTC
firetruck sinkhole
© Kyiv OperativeFacebook
Kiev's infrastructure woes were highlighted on Sunday when a fire engine responding to an emergency failed to reach its destination because it fell into a sinkhole on the road.

Kyiv Operative, a news outlet specializing in crime, fires and other emergencies in the Ukrainian capital, published footage showing the aftermath of the incident on its Facebook page.

It was not immediately clear what exactly caused the sinkhole to form. But a similar incident happened in Kiev last Tuesday when a hot-water pipe burst filled streets with streams of steaming water and caused traffic chaos in the city. The road then collapsed right under a car.
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6.7-Magnitude undersea earthquake off Fiji, but no tsunami


NDTV
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:06 UTC
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A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fiji Monday, the United States Geological Survey said, but it was too deep to cause any damage.

It was centred 534 kilometres (331 miles) deep and 283 kilometres east of the capital Suva where residents said they did not notice any shaking.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami threat from the tremor which occurred at 9:25 am (2025 GMT Sunday).

The area is prone to deep undersea earthquakes and was hit with a 7.8-magnitude tremor two months ago.

Source: Agence France-Presse
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