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Man killed by pack of 5 dogs in Beniarbeig, Spain

9news.com.au
Wed, 22 Feb 2017 13:03 UTC

A Spanish man has been mauled to death in what police believe was a vicious attack by his neighbour's five dogs.

The 66-year-old was discovered by his son lying on the ground covered in wounds "caused by animal bites" which police suspect were the work of the dogs, all crosses between pit bulls - considered dangerous - and bull terriers.

The victim left his home in Beniarbeig, southeastern Spain, on Saturday to tend to his vegetables nearby, the Guardia Civil police force said in a statement on Tuesday.

When his son realised he had been gone a long time, he went to look for him and found him lying on the ground in a "horrific scene", they added.

Police said the state of his arms and legs suggested the man fought hard before he died.

Two of the five dogs, all crosses between pit bulls and bull terriers, in a cage of a kennel of Els Poblets, that fatally attacked a man in Beniarbeig on February 18, 2017.

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Two of the five dogs, all crosses between pit bulls and bull terriers, in a cage of a kennel of Els Poblets, that fatally attacked a man in Beniarbeig on February 18, 2017.

Comment: Other recent noteworthy reports of dog attacks on humans:

Child suffering from serious injuries after being attacked by family dog in Palmetto, Florida

2 pit bulls viciously attack man in Victorville, California

Tenant's 5 year old child attacked by 3 of his landlord's dogs in Lagos, Nigeria

Man's arm amputated following Pitbull attack in Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Giant basking shark found dead in winter on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Jason Claffey
Martha's Vineyard Patch
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:45 UTC

Basking shark

A basking shark — which grows up to 30 feet and 5 tons — recently washed up on Cape Cod.

A mammoth basking shark washed up on dead on Cape Cod this week. The adult shark was spotted Sunday in Wellfleet Harbor.

Adult basking sharks can grow up to 30 feet and 5 tons. The only bigger shark is the whale shark, measuring about 35 feet and 10 tons. By comparison, great white sharks are only about 18 feet and 2 tons.

Basking sharks have giant mouths measuring about 3 feet that filter plankton, their primary food source. The sharks are not dangerous to humans.

Abnormal seismic swarm detected under Lanin volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina

The Watchers
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 06:56 UTC

An energetic seismic swarm has been detected under Lanin volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina, prompting the Chilean National Geological and Mining Service (Sernageomin) to raise the volcanic alert level to Yellow. The last known eruption of this volcano took place in the year 560 (± 150 years).

According to Sernageomin's special report issued February 15, a swarm of earthquakes, associated with the movement of fluids inside the volcano, started at 18:24 UTC and lasted 59 minutes and 45 seconds. The strongest earthquake had a magnitude 1.8.

No changes have so far been observed at the surface.

Sernageomin said the seismicity continued after they issued the report and estimated that there could be a destabilization of the volcanic system.

Given the relevance of this unusual activity, the agency has raised the alert level to Yellow.

This has activated the Civil Protection System and the notification to the Argentine Mining Geological Service to take measures to safeguard the population on both sides of the border.

Record drought to record rain in 3 months: Many rivers in northern California at or above flood stage

The Watchers
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 22:08 UTC

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered in parts of Northern California Monday, February 20, 2017, as another heavy rainmaker slammed the region.

Many rivers in Northern California are at or above flood stage after a series of powerful storms hit the state in recent months. There are reports of flooded streets and trees and debris crashing into roadways. More than a dozen reports of flooding and debris flows have come in Monday from as far south as Monterey and as far north as Santa Rosa, according to The Weather Channel.

Two people have lost their lives Monday morning on a rural road between Oakdale and Waterford after head-on crash due to wet road, bringing the total death toll in California to 9 in just a few days.

I-80 westbound is currently closed from the Nevada state line through Donner Pass due to multiple vehicle collisions.

Comment: What a phenomenal turn-around by Mother Nature: 3 months ago, California's reservoirs were bone dry - now they're bursting at the seams!

Summer snow for Australia and 58 glaciers growing across New Zealand

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 20:48 UTC

The base camera at Mount Mawson in Tasmania

Summer snows blanket New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Coldest temperatures in Perth breaking records back to 1879 and new report out shows that 58 glaciers in New Zealand are advancing. The repeated summer snow events are showing a clear trend that growing seasons are becoming shorter.

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Disappearing honey bee population could spell trouble for some crops

Terace Garnier
wgmd.com
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 20:24 UTC

Honey bee

The honey bee contributes to a third of the country's food supply but the population is declining. Last year eight percent of the bees disappeared according to the American Beekeepers Federation. The situation was more severe between 2015 and 2016 when there was a 44 percent decrease in colonies.

Dr. Dennis vanEngelsdorp, the President of the Bee Informed Partnership, says if this trend continues it could limit the food American's eat. "If we didn't have honey bees, we certainly would lose a lot of our diet," vanEngelsdorp said. He told Fox that would include blueberries, strawberries and vegetables.

The honey bee is the only insect that produces food eaten by humans. The species can pollinate over 75 percent of flowering plants and crops, making it one of the top pollinators in the U.S. That means the bee can travel up to 6 miles a day and pollinate between 50 to 100 flowers per trip. The pollination process occurs when the pollen sac from one flower sticks to a honey bee's legs and is transferred to another plant. The pollen within the sac spills out when the bee lands on the plant, causing it to be fertilized.

Brutal ivory trade: Poachers are decimating elephant populations in Africa's most important nature preserve

George Dvorsky
Gizmodo
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:30 UTC

The population of forest elephants in Gabon's Minkébé National Park—one of Central Africa's largest and most important nature preserves—has declined by a whopping 81.5 percent since 2004 due to poaching. It's considered a major setback for the preservation of this endangered species, of which less than 100,000 remain in the wild.

A discouraging new study published in Current Biology shows that 25,000 elephants were poached in Minkébé National Park for their ivory between 2004 and 2014. That's a lot more than expected, amounting to approximately six to seven elephants killed each day over a 10 year period.

At the turn of the 21st century, the 7,570 square kilometer Minkébé National Park featured the highest population density of forest elephants in all of Central Africa. Given that half of Central Africa's forest elephants, which are distinct from the more well-known savannah elephants, live in Gabon, these losses represent a major setback for the species.

Comment: African elephant populations facing extinction due to hunting and poaching for ivory

Old man in critical condition after bear attack in Odisha, India

Odisha Sun Times
Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:46 UTC

An elderly man was seriously injured this morning after a bear attacked him when he had gone to attend nature's call at a farmland near his home in Balasore district of Odisha.

The injured was identified as 70-year-old Bhagaban Nayak of Mahishapata village under Nilagiri police limits in the district.

According to reports, a bear attacked the old man's waist in the morning when he was in a farmland to answer the call of nature.

Bhagaban screamed following the attack and villagers rushed to rescue him from the claws of the wild animal.

He was rushed to Balasore District Headquarters Hospital in a critical condition where on duty doctors suggested to shift him to SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH) in Cuttack.

Later, he was shifted to SCBMCH for treatment.

Rare 'fire rainbow' lights up the sky over Singapore

Jon Sharman
The Independent (UK)
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:28 UTC

Observers say fleeting phenomenon lasted 15 minutes

Singapore was treated to a rare weather phenomenon as an apparent "fire rainbow" lit up the sky.

Weather watchers on the island state in south-east Asia were treated to the multi-coloured glow yesterday.

The stunning scene may also have been cloud iridescence. Both phenomena can be caused by the refraction of light through ice crystals, or in the case of iridescence, by water droplets.

For iridescence to occur clouds must be thin so the sun's rays encounter very little water.

The technical name for a fire rainbow is a "circumhorizontal arc".

The light show persisted for about 15 minutes and could reportedly be seen across the island.

Strong 6.5 magnitude tremor strikes Bolivia

BNO News
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:53 UTC

A strong earthquake (terremoto) with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 has struck a mountainous region in central Bolivia, with shaking felt in Sucre, Potosi, Padilla and other cities across the region,.seismologists and residents say.

The earthquake, which struck at 10:09 a.m. local time on Tuesday, was centered about 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of the town of Padilla in the Chuquisaca Department, or 143 kilometers (89 miles) east of the city of Sucre. It struck at a depth of 596 kilometers (370 miles), making it a deep earthquake.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) put the preliminary magnitude of Tuesday's earthquake at 6.5. The depth of the earthquake is likely to have minimized the effects of the quake and there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Tuesday's tremor is the strongest tremor to hit Bolivia since November 2011, when a 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck southwest of Trinidad in north-central Bolivia.

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Earth Changes

Man killed by pack of 5 dogs in Beniarbeig, Spain

Giant basking shark found dead in winter on Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Abnormal seismic swarm detected under Lanin volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina

Record drought to record rain in 3 months: Many rivers in northern California at or above flood stage

Summer snow for Australia and 58 glaciers growing across New Zealand

Disappearing honey bee population could spell trouble for some crops

Brutal ivory trade: Poachers are decimating elephant populations in Africa's most important nature preserve

Old man in critical condition after bear attack in Odisha, India

Rare 'fire rainbow' lights up the sky over Singapore

Strong 6.5 magnitude tremor strikes Bolivia

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