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Black bear attacks man near Sudbury, Ontario

Ashifa Kassam
The Guardian
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 16:26 UTC
Rick Nelson took on a black bear in the Canadian city of Sudbury.
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Rick Nelson took on a black bear in the Canadian city of Sudbury.
A 61-year-old man from northern Ontario said he was lucky to walk away with only scratches after facing off against a 320lb black bear with only his fists and the skills gleaned from years of featherweight boxing.

Rick Nelson was walking his dog outside the city of Sudbury on Sunday when a black bear cub poked its head out of a shrub some three feet away from him. "It was so close I could touch it. It let out a yelp, because I scared the heck out of it," he said.

As his dog barked at the cub, the former bear hunter knew he only had seconds to spare before the cub's mother would arrive to defend her cub. "I knew right away I was in trouble," he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. "It's calling for mommy."
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Bear kills man and injures another seven within an hour in India


The Times of Times
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:11 UTC
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A bear killed a man and injured seven persons in Ballari district on Tuesday morning.

The animal attacked Pura Basappa, Maliyamma and Hanumanthappa between 6.30 and 7am when they were walking to their fields in Siddapura village. Their screams alerted other villagers, who threw stones and drove it away.

Within minutes, the bear appeared at Siddapura Nala, on the outskirts of the village. It bit Kasturi Naik, 56, on the neck. It attacked Kalia Naik, 50, who tried to rescue Kasturi. Kala escaped with scratches, but Kasturi succumbed to his injuries in hospital.

The angry bear then turned on Peeki Bai, 50, and Thippamma, 50, who were heading to their fields, and left them injured.

The animal then moved towards Makanadaku village, and injured Thippeswamy, 42, in his right leg, thigh and left hand. It took shelter in bushes following the multiple attacks, which happened within a span of an hour.

The injured, undergoing treatment at the Kudligi government hospital, are out of danger.
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Category 5 Super Typhoon Nepartak heading for Taiwan

Andrew Freedman
Mashable
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:02 UTC
Super Typhoon Nepartak
© NOAA
Super Typhoon Nepartak, seen on July 5, 2016
Super Typhoon Nepartak has taken full advantage of mild ocean waters and ideal atmospheric conditions to skyrocket in intensity, hitting 175 mile per hour sustained winds as of Wednesday morning eastern time.

This makes it a powerful Category 5 storm — the first of the season anywhere in the northern hemisphere.

The storm has a monstrous appearance of meteorological perfection, with a central core of towering thunderstorms ringing a small, calm eye in the center.

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Japan Meteorological Agency and the Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan all forecast the storm will make landfall somewhere in central Taiwan on July 7 and 8.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt strikes moving vehicle on U.S. 277 near Wichita Falls, Texas

Christopher Collins
Times Record News
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 13:11 UTC
Lightning struck a moving truck Tuesday morning on U.S. 277, halting traffic both ways.
© Christoper Collins/Times Record News
Lightning struck a moving truck Tuesday morning on U.S. 277, halting traffic both ways.
Traffic came to a halt on U.S. 277 outside of Wichita Falls on Tuesday morning after lightning struck a moving pickup, according to an official at the Archer County Sheriff's Office.

The late-model Dodge truck was traveling north though a thunderstorm about 30 miles south of Wichita Falls when a lightning bolt shattered the front windshield and set the dashboard on fire, said Simon Dwyer, chief deputy at the sheriff's office.

The driver, unharmed, came to a stop and escaped before the entire truck went up in flames, sending thick plumes of oily smoke into the air.

"That's nothing I've ever seen or heard of," Dwyer said.

At about 8:30 a.m., first responders shut down traffic both ways on the highway while they fought the flames. The fire was out and traffic began moving again about 9:30 a.m.. though first responders didn't clear the scene until 11 a.m.

The Archer County Sheriff's Office, the Lake Kickapoo Fire Department, the Bowman Fire Department and the Holliday Fire Department responded to the call.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 7 and injures over 6 in Bihar, India


ndtv.com
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:21 UTC
Lightning
At least 7 people including women and children were killed and over half a dozen others injured after being struck by lightning in Bihar's Gaya district on Tuesday, police said.

A district police official said the seven belonged to a village under Chakand police station in Gaya, about 100 km from Patna.

An official of the disaster management department confirmed the deaths.

Last month, as many as 57 people were killed by lightning across Bihar within 24 hours.

Lighting strikes, during the monsoon season which started from June's second week, are common in Bihar.

Source: Indo-Asian News Service
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 2 construction workers in Zambales, Philippines

Allan Macatuno
Inquirer.net
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:10 UTC
Lightning
Two construction workers here were struck by lightning and killed on Tuesday beneath a tree where they took shelter from a strong downpour, police said.

Wilbert Hipolito, 23, and Ariel Gumanid, 21, both residents of this town, were building a perimeter fence in Barangay (village) Rabanes here when heavy rain fell at 4 p.m., said Senior Insp. Geoffrey Javier, San Marcelino police station commander.

Javier said the two decided to take cover under a Madre de Cacao tree but were hit by lightning.
The two were taken to San Marcelino District Hospital but were declared dead on arrival at about 5 p.m.

Last June 24, a farmer out in the field of Sta. Cruz town in Zambales also died after he was struck by lightning.
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Dead humpback whale found on beach in Western Australia

Michael Black
abc.net.au
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 18:06 UTC
The whale is believed to have died fron natural causes.
© DPAW
The whale is believed to have died fron natural causes.
People have been urged to stay out of the water at a popular beach in Western Australia's South West after a large whale carcass washed ashore.

The 12-metre humpback whale was found at Honeycombs Beach near Margaret River on Monday, with large shark bites visible on the carcass.

WA Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPAW) marine park coordinator Matthew Dasey said the carcass would be broken up into smaller pieces and carted away to a local government landfill site.

"Obviously 40 tonnes of rotting meat on the beach is going to attract sharks, so we want to be on top of that straight away," Mr Dasey said.

Rangers have been patrolling the beach, a well-known surfing spot in the Leeuwin Estate National Park, to warn people away from the area.
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Fish

Micro-plastics threaten ocean's ecosystem

number23
Natural Blaze
Sat, 02 Jul 2016 14:26 UTC
fish
© Angus MacAskill
Larval fish are becoming addicted to consuming micro-beads, according to a new study by a group of Swedish researchers.

The study, entitled "Environmentally relevant concentrations of microplastic particles influence larval fish ecology," was published earlier this month in the journal Science. As outlined in the study's abstract, the scientists discovered that when developing fish are exposed to high concentrations of micro-plastic particles, they exhibit altered behaviors and stunted growth, which in turn led to increased mortality rates.

Micro-beads, the tiny pieces of plastic we find in many everyday cosmetic products such as face wash, body scrub and toothpaste, are so small they easily travel down our plugholes, through the water filtration system and into the ocean. Once there, these tiny pieces of plastic cause havoc in the ocean's ecosystem.

Comment: Read more about the plague of plastic trashing the world's Oceans:

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Dead whale found in Port Hueneme, California


abc7.com
Mon, 04 Jul 2016 12:35 UTC
A dead whale washed ashore in Port Hueneme in Ventura County on Monday, July 4, 2016.
© Adrian Rodriguez
A dead whale washed ashore in Port Hueneme in Ventura County on Monday, July 4, 2016.
A whale carcass washed ashore at the beach in Port Hueneme on Monday.

The National Marine Fisheries Service said the dead whale appeared at about 3 p.m.

Officials with the Channel Islands Marine Institute were running samples of the whale.

The whale, which was believed to be a humpback whale, was dead for some time as pieces of it were floating in the water nearby, according to officials.

The National Marine Fisheries Service said they confirmed the whale was not the same one that washed ashore Dockweiler State Beach and was towed back out to sea.

The city of Port Hueneme was handling the investigation.

Comment: Reports of other dead whales that have washed ashore along the California coast in 2016 so far: Dead humpback whale washes ashore at Dockweiler State Beach, California

Dead whale washed ashore in Shelter Cove, California

Dead whale found on beach in Sonoma County, California

Dead humpback whale examined by authorities in Santa Cruz, California

Dead whale washes up near San Clemente, California

Dead gray whale found at Torrey Pines State Beach, California

Dead humpback whale washes ashore at Silver Strand State Beach, California

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Forklift falls into sinkhole on sidewalk in Ganzhou, China

Ben Hooper
UPI
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 12:19 UTC
Forklift in sinkhole

Forklift in sinkhole
A traffic camera in China captured the moment a sinkhole opened up in a sidewalk and partially swallowed a forklift.

The video, filmed Tuesday, shows the forklift driving across the brick walkway next to a road in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, when a sinkhole opens up underneath the vehicle.

The forklift was almost completely swallowed by the hole, but the driver was not injured.

Authorities said the cause of the walkway's collapse is being investigated.

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