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Cyclone Ockhi: Death toll reaches 25 in Kerala, India


Mumbai Mirror
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 03:04 UTC
cyclone Ockhi
© ANI
After causing havoc in and around the Lakshadweep islands on Sunday, severe cyclonic storm Ockhi has set its course north and is expected to make landfall in Maharashtra and south Gujarat in the next 24 hours.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an alert Monday, warning fishermen against venturing into the sea as coastal areas are likely to experience strong winds.

A cyclonic bulletin issued by IMD stated: "The very severe cyclonic storm Ockhi that lay centered over East central and adjoining southwest Arabian Sea, about 420 km west northwest of Amini Divi, 880 km southsouthwest of Mumbai and 1090 km south-southwest of Surat is very likely to move north-northwestward for a few hours and then recurve north eastwards during the subsequent 48 hours and weaken gradually."

The Gujarat government issued instructions to district magistrates, asking them to take adequate precautionary measures. NDRF teams have been put on alert and deployed at critical locations. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who is on a tour of cyclone Ockhi-affected areas, on Monday said that search and rescue operations in high seas would not be stopped or diluted till all fishermen, who have been missing since the cyclonic storm hit Kerala's shores, were safely brought back.
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Snowflake Cold

Major storm system to bring heavy snow, strong winds and thunderstorms to eastern US

Max Golembo
ABC News
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 11:17 UTC
Heavy snow western US December 2017
Winterlike conditions are expected to wallop the eastern half of the country, from Denver to New York City, as a significant change in the weather pattern takes shape.

A major storm is developing in the middle of the country with heavy snow, strong winds and thunderstorms, according to ABC News meteorologists.

More than a dozen states, from the Rockies to the Northeast, have issued winter weather warnings or watches.
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Blue Planet

A force to be reckoned with: Seismologists report that a volcano is building up under New England

Paul Seaburn
Mysterious Universe
Sat, 02 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
New Enland

Enjoy it while you can
Are you frustrated that your favorite team seems to always lose to the Boston Celtics, New England Patriots or Boston Red Sox? Help may be coming, if you can wait a few years.

"The upwelling we detected is like a hot air balloon, and we infer that something is rising up through the deeper part of our planet under New England."
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Attention

Unusual animal behaviour: 'Aggressive' wombat euthanised after attacking people in Tasmania


SBS
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:47 UTC
A rogue Tasmanian wombat has had to be put down after one person was hospitalised from an attack.
© AAP
A rogue Tasmanian wombat has had to be put down after one person was hospitalised from an attack.
A rogue wombat which routinely terrorised people at a sleepy Tasmanian beachside township has been caught and killed over fears for public safety.

The combative marsupial was attacking adults and children near Weymouth in the state's north, according to the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment.

Spokesman Ben Davidson said a number of people had reported a specific wombat displaying "aggressive behaviour".

One person was taken to hospital after an attack.
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Question

Dozens of dead sharks found on beach in Queensland, Australia

Kirby Spencer
Daily Mail
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:06 UTC
Dozens of dead sharks have washed up on a North Queensland beach, with mystery surrounding how the animals died

Dozens of dead sharks have washed up on a North Queensland beach, with mystery surrounding how the animals died
Dozens of dead sharks have washed up on a North Queensland beach, with mystery surrounding how the animals died.

Concerned resident Lance Payne made the grisly discovery last month while scouring Louisa Creek Beach, south of Mackay.

The 54-year-old said he found an 'alarming number' of carcasses during his first visit, with at least eight more, including juveniles, unearthed on Sunday.

Mr Payne first first came across the dead beasts in early November, while searching the beach for coal.

Taking to Facebook, he stated that there appeared to be only one species that had washed up on the shore.
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Arrow Down

Man falls into sinkhole as footpath opens up in southeastern China


NDTV
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:21 UTC
Footage from two separate CCTV cameras shows the moment an unsuspecting pedestrian disappears into a sinkhole.

Footage from two separate CCTV cameras shows the moment an unsuspecting pedestrian disappears into a sinkhole.
Shocking surveillance footage captures the exact moment a man plunges into a sinkhole that opens beneath his feet on a paved footpath on Thursday in southeastern China.

Footage from two separate CCTV cameras shows the moment an unsuspecting pedestrian disappears into the sinkhole in Jiangxi Province's Nanchang.

Video posted online shows the pedestrian, who was with three friends on the footpath, getting ready to cross the road. Suddenly, the man disappears from sight as the footpath caves in. His friends are left stunned. A number of passersby rush over to offer assistance as the victim's shocked friends reach out to help him out of the sinkhole.

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Cassiopaea

'Strange' Arctic rainbow and red 'summer' sprites in winter - rare atmospheric events on the increase


SpaceWeather
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 10:00 UTC
STRANGE ARCTIC RAINBOW
© Valtteri Immonen
December 3, 2017 @ Muonio, Lapland, Finland


STRANGE ARCTIC RAINBOW

Rainbows usually require liquid water. Droplets falling out of the sky intercept beams of sunlight, reflecting them back in a colorful spray of red, green, and blue. Yesterday, Valtteri Immonen saw such a rainbow over Muonio, Finland, but something was missing: the raindrops. "It was -6 degrees C, no rain and no snowfall," he says. "Yet there was a huge rainbow across the sky."

"I have never seen a rainbow during the winter and I didn't even know that it is possible for them to form when the temperature is below 0 degrees Celsius," he marvels.
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Bizarro Earth

Satellite images reveal extent of Earth's pollution

Karen Graham
Digital Journal
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 19:19 UTC
Images released by the European Space Agency on Friday are very revealing - Showing the level of air pollutants around the world, including the sulfur dioxide, ash, and smoke from the Mount Agung volcano in Bali.
The Sentinel-5P satellite
© ESA Earth Online
Artist's rendition of The Sentinel-5P satellite.
On October 13, this year, the ESA launched its UK-built Sentinel-5P, a pollution monitoring satellite. Sentinel-5P is the first Copernicus satellite solely dedicated to monitoring the Earth's atmospheric chemistry, 24-hours a day, every day., and it has lived up to its name.

The satellite's instruments, as it orbits over 800 kilometers (497 miles) above Earth, produces one million gigabytes of data that's about the same as 213,000 DVD movies. Pollutant levels are measured across individual countries, providing data on Ozone NO_2, SO_2, Formaldehyde, Aerosols, Carbon dioxide, Methane, and Clouds, according to the ESA website. The monitoring is in support of air quality, climate, and ozone operational monitoring programs.

In a statement, ESA says that "even though the satellite is still being prepared for service, these first results have been hailed as exceptional and show how this latest Copernicus satellite is set to take the task of monitoring air quality into a new era."
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Attention

Forester gored to death by rhino in West Bengal, India

Pinak Priya Bhattacharya
The Times of India
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 19:01 UTC
Greater One Horned Rhino

Greater One Horned Rhino
A forest beat officer, who was to retire in 2019 from service, was gored by a rhino in Jaldapara National Park on Wednesday night.

Chief wildlife warden Ravi Kant Sinha said 58-year-old Uttam Sarkar was on duty at the Shiltorsha beat of the national park. Sarkar was a resident of north Bengal.

"It was dark and the beat officer probably couldn't spot the rhino when it attacked him," added Sinha. State wildlife advisory board member Animesh Bose said Sarkar was heading towards his beat on a bike on Wednesday night when he came face-toface with the rhino.

"The animal attacked and killed him on the spot. Though deaths of forest guards in rhino attacks were reported earlier from the park, this is the first time a beat officer was killed in rhino attack," Bose added.
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Two labourers killed by landslide in Ramban, India


Web India 123
Sun, 03 Dec 2017 18:50 UTC
Farooq Ahmad, also a resident of Bagna, who was passing by was reportedly buried under the debris. (Photo for representation)

Farooq Ahmad, also a resident of Bagna, who was passing by was reportedly buried under the debris. (Photo for representation)
Two labourers died, when they got buried under debris due to labdslide in Batote area of Ramban district in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.

"Two local labourers working on the Seri-Sencha PMGSY link road this afternoon got burried under the debris of a landslide at Bhagnain Ramban," Mohan Lal, SSP Ramban, here told UNI. He said the labourers, who were deputed with the JCB machine, came under heavy boulders and soil, when the excavation work was going on.

The deceased were identified as Abdul Rasheed of Bhatti and Farooq Ahmed of Balihote, Ramban. "The rescue operation was carried out by the local police, SDRF, volunteers of QRT and locals, while one of the bodies was retrieved from the debris,"he added.

Source: UNI
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