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US: Hundreds of Fish Turn Up Dead in South Georgia

The Associated Press
Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:21 UTC

Albany - Drought conditions are being blamed for the deaths of hundreds of fish at Radium Springs in south Georgia.

Authorities say the creek that normally connects Radium Springs to the Flint River is dry, and the water level is so low that fish don't have enough oxygen to survive.

WALB-TV reports that the natural spring is usually 24 feet deep. Authorities say levels have dropped at least four feet, and all the fish have been pushed into one small area.

Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Supervisor Rob Weller says hundreds of fish have died, including large mouth bass, blue gill and gar.

Radium Springs is one of 15 major springs around Albany. State officials say that without rain, more of them could see the same problems as Radium Springs.

Queensland, Australia: Army of Rats "the Size of Possums" Invade Goodna

Anna Chisholm
The Courier-Mail
Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:34 UTC

Over-sized rats are taking up residence southwest of Brisbane at Goodna, as residents slowly move back into their flood-affected homes.

The Courier-Mail website was overwhelmed with comments from readers complaining of large rats creating havoc in homes from Caboolture and Narangba to the inner-city today.

Residents at Bellbowrie, Indooroopilly, Yeronga and Hendra also reported the number of rodents were on the increase.

Ipswich City Council plans to unleash a force of fox terriers and pest control council workers to stop the pests next week.

Goodna residents have complained rats "the size of possums" were nesting in their homes because of the cooler weather.

The situation is believed to be worse because many flood-affected homes are unoccupied.

Australian pest control service 1300 Pest Control CEO Paul Byres said the rats posed a real threat to homes in the area.

U.S.: Odd visitors in local waters a deep mystery

Craig Welch
The Seattle Times
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:01 UTC

© ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Ocean Sunfish Found locally: 1997 off Cape Flattery; Natural habitat: Warm and temperate waters

There was the brown booby, the plunge-diving tropical seabird that inexplicably hopped aboard a crab boat this spring in Willapa Bay.

And fishermen have caught spear-snouted striped marlin off the Washington coast and a 6-foot leopard shark in Bellingham Bay. The shark, in particular, is hardly ever seen north of Coos Bay, Ore.

Even Bryde's whales, which normally range from Chile to northern Mexico, have washed up dead on southern Puget Sound beaches. Twice. Just since early 2010.

Hundreds of cattle die of mysterious disease in Dadu, Pakistan

Pakistan Press International
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:28 UTC

Hundreds of cattle including sheep, goats, cows, buffaloes and camels have died of mysterious diseases in a month in different villages of Kachho area lying between Khirthar mountain range in the west and the plains along the river Indus on the east side.

The villagers told PPI, that animals so far included 700 goats, 300 sheep, 40 cows, 25 buffaloes and 15 camels.

The villagers said that 200 goats, 95 sheep and 3 cows died in Pat Gul Muhammad area of Kachho while 160 goats, 5 cows, 3 buffaloes and 6 camels died in village Raju Dero, Sim and Torr within 20 days.

Similarly, over 175 goats, 7 cows, 3 buffaloes and 4 camels died in village Bari, Heero Khan and surrounding areas.

UK: Cow with 'Unusual Intelligence' Opens Farm Gate with Tongue to Escape

The Daily Mail
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:20 UTC

Udder genius: Daisy the cow expertly picks the lock of her pen gate in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland

A farmer has been forced to beef up the security in his cowshed after an unusually smart heifer found a way for her and her friends to escape.

Daisy the cow, from a farm in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, has learned the trick to unbolting the gate to her pen with her tongue.

She deftly and accurately unfastens both bolts, allowing her and her bovine buddies access to the verdant fields outside for breakfast.

Farmer Tom Grant was left scratching his head after he found his cattle out munching grass in the morning, despite locking them up the night before.

He initially suspected cattle rustlers so, with the help of his brother, Vincent, Mr Brown set up a hidden camera to get to the bottom of the cattle conundrum.

Happy Feet? Emperor penguin found far from Antarctic home

Nick Perry
MSNBC / Associated Press
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:44 UTC

A young Emperor penguin took a rare wrong turn from the Antarctic and ended up stranded on a New Zealand beach - the first time in 44 years the aquatic bird has been sighted in the wild in the South Pacific country.

© Richard Gill / AP
This Emperor penguin got lost while hunting for food and ended up stranded on Peka Peka Beach in New Zealand on Monday.

Local resident Christine Wilton was taking her miniature Schnauzer dog Millie for a walk on Peka Peka Beach on the North Island's western coast when she discovered the bird Monday evening.

"It was out-of-this-world to see it ... like someone just dropped it from the sky," Wilton said. "It looked like Happy Feet - it was totally in the wrong place," Wilton said, referring to the 2006 animated musical featuring a young penguin who finds himself far from home.

Conservation experts say the penguin is about 10 months old and stands about 32 inches high. Colin Miskelly, a curator at Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, said the bird was likely born during the last Antarctic winter. It may have been searching for squid and krill when it took a wrong turn.

US: 6-Foot Python Found Atop Garbage Truck in Ohio

The Associated Press
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:24 UTC

The driver of a garbage truck found a 6-foot Burmese python on its roof after he emptied a trash bin into the truck at a Cincinnati fast-food restaurant.

Hamilton County sheriff's spokesman Steve Barnett says deputies who were summoned around 11 a.m. Thursday arrived to find the snake on the ground with its tail wrapped around a broom belonging to the driver. A deputy lifted the snake into a cardboard box using the broom.

Barnett says in a statement that the python appeared sluggish at first but revived once inside the box.

Animal welfare workers took away the snake.

The sheriff's office says it doesn't know how the python got to the trash bin area.

Tree Rings Record Changing Snowpack, Research Finds

Brett French
The Gazette
Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:06 UTC

Greg Pederson sees the recent publication of his research on snowpack declines in the West as a prime opportunity to reiterate the difference between climate and weather in this record-setting wet spring.

Pederson, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Bozeman, was the lead author of a paper published last week in Science magazine detailing the decline in snowpack observed by examining tree rings from the watersheds of the Columbia, Missouri and Colorado river basins dating back more than 800 years.

His findings: Not only has snowpack declined compared to past climate fluctuations, but there's also been a "decoupling" of precipitation in the Colorado River basin and that of the Northern Rockies.

What this means is the tendency for the north to have high snowpacks when the south is experiencing meager ones, and vice versa, has shifted to declining snowpack across the West. The long-term implications of reduced snowpack in the West, which provides water to an estimated 70 million people in just the three drainages Pederson studied, portends huge challenges for water managers in the future, he said.

Because the paper's publication has come during an unusually wet spring in many areas of the United States, Pederson has garnered a lot of interest from the media, including National Public Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

"It's actually rather fortunate timing if you have an intention or desire to re-emphasize what weather and climate is," Pederson said. "I saw it as an opportunity to teach people."

Serious horse disease dourine returns to Europe

Horse Welfare News
Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:15 UTC

International horse charity World Horse Welfare has been made aware of two outbreaks of the serious equine disease dourine in Europe. Evidence of the disease has been reported in Catania and Sicily and World Horse Welfare is monitoring the situation closely.

According to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which announced the outbreaks, no horses can be exported from Sicily for at least six months, and they recommend that horse owners and keepers of breeding animals understand the clinical signs for dourine. Dourine is a notifiable disease, so if you suspect your horse might have contracted it then you are legally obliged to notify your local Animal Health Office.

Defra reported that one of the affected horses was humanely euthanized while the second was still alive, but critically ill, at the time of notification (27 May 2011).

Synthetic Sea - Plastics in the Pacific Ocean

youtube
Fri, 06 May 2011 22:00 UTC

Captain Charles Moore describes the marine debris research he has conducted on behalf of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation over the past 12 years.

Current concerns include the ubiquitous presence of endocrine disrupting
synthetics in the marine environment, with pollutant loads being transferred up the food chain to haunt fish, cetaceans and humans.

Comment: To learn more about the synthetic sea and how the ocean has become The Biggest Dump in the World, read the following articles:

What is the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
Pacific Ocean garbage patch worries researchers
Huge Garbage Patch Found in Atlantic Too
Antarctic Garbage Patch Coming?
New garbage patch discovered in Indian Ocean
The world's rubbish dump stretches from Hawaii to Japan
A Passion to Clean up the Pacific Ocean's Great 'Garbage Patch'

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US: Hundreds of Fish Turn Up Dead in South Georgia

Queensland, Australia: Army of Rats "the Size of Possums" Invade Goodna

U.S.: Odd visitors in local waters a deep mystery

Hundreds of cattle die of mysterious disease in Dadu, Pakistan

UK: Cow with 'Unusual Intelligence' Opens Farm Gate with Tongue to Escape

Happy Feet? Emperor penguin found far from Antarctic home

US: 6-Foot Python Found Atop Garbage Truck in Ohio

Tree Rings Record Changing Snowpack, Research Finds

Serious horse disease dourine returns to Europe

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