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Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Jan 2nd, 2012,
A beach in Nordreisa, Norway is now completely blanketed in dead herring. It is unknown what caused the herring to die; whether it was tides, predatory fish or something else. Scientists would like to test the dead fish to discover the cause of death. From the Guardian: For doom-mongers, the fish were the second a sign in as many days that 2012 would live up to the apocalyptic prediction of the ancient Mayans, after hundreds of blackbirds reportedly dropped dead in Arkansas. To see a large picture of the starling scene check out this article in the Daily Mail.
Tags: beach, dead, fish, herring, Norway
Climate Change, Wildlife & Flora, Dec 6th, 2011,
‘A million seal pups dead’ – this was the headline (in Swedish) for a brief article in Friday’s Sydsvenskan, a newspaper for the southern Swedish province of Skåne. But it was enough to make me want to know more. The lack of ice cover on Canada’s east coast has contributed to massive die off of seal pups, which are born on ice sheets. If there is not enough sea ice cover or the ice melts before the pups learn how to swim, the pups drown. A study by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada determined that 45% of the…
Tags: Canada, dead, ice, pups, seal
Nature, Sep 21st, 2011,
As powerful Typhoon Roke approaches Japan’s mainland authorities are appealing to 1,3 million residents to evacuate their homes and move to higher ground. 5 people are already believed to be dead from heavy rains, flooding and strong winds, which are set to increase as the typhoon makes landfall in central Japan. From AFP: In Nagoya, in central Japan’s Aichi prefecture, officials have advised about one million residents to leave their homes because of fears that rivers might burst their banks. The storm is expected to move northwards up the coast to Tokyo. So far over 200 domestic flights have been…
Tags: dead, flooding, japan, Nagoya, Typhoon Roke
Conservation, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 16th, 2010,
Dozens of dead seals marked by strange corkscrew wounds have washed up on beaches in Norfolk, England and Fife, Scotland this year. The cause of the mysterious injuries is as of yet unknown, but they look as if they were caused by some kind of mechanical blades rather than attacks by larger bull seals. From a report in the Telegraph: A bizarre spiral of wounds on all the seals suggests that all the victims have passed through some form of sluice where they have been caught by a bladed instrument. In Norfolk, the seal deaths are being investigated by the…
Tags: beach, dead, deaths, injuries, mysterious, Norfolk, Scotland, seals, UK, wildlife
Climate Change, Nature, Aug 10th, 2010,
On Saturday heavy rains fell on Gansu province in northern China, resulting in landslides which buried at least three villages. The death toll from the mudslides has now reached 702, according to Chinese officials, with more than 1,000 people still missing. China has been experiencing its most severe flooding in a decade – and more rain is forecast for later in the week. Rescue efforts are at their most intense in Zhouqu county, the area worst hit by the floods. From an AFP report: More than 7,000 soldiers and rescuers were hunting around-the-clock for survivors in Zhouqu, the county seat,…
Tags: China, dead, death, flooding, floods, mudslides, Pakistan, people, rain, worst, Zhouqu
Nature, Jul 29th, 2010,
It was only three months ago that southern China was suffering from its worst drought in living memory. Now the heaviest rains in over a decade are causing floods, mudslides and other destruction there, as well as threatening the integrity of the massive Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in Hubei province. According to a BBC report, Chinese authorities have stated that the recent flooding left 823 people dead and 437 missing, the latest count including 37 deaths after a bridge collapsed in Henan province and a further 21 who are feared dead due to mudslides in Sichuan province….
Tags: China, dam, dead, death, flooding, floods, Gorges, Hubei, river, three, Yangtze
Wildlife & Flora, Jul 22nd, 2010,
Over a period of only 10 days, more than 500 dead penguins have washed ashore on Brazilian beaches. The penguins’ bodies exhibit signs of death by starvation. During the past few years Magellanic Penguins have been discovered on of the beaches of Rio de Janeiro state with increasing frequency. For some reason – perhaps due to pollution and/or overfishing – they sometimes become lost while migrating north from Antarctica and Patagonia in search of food. But those penguins – a few hundred per year – are normally alive. From a BBC report: Thiago do Nascimento of the Peruibe Aquarium says…
Tags: beaches, Brazil, Brazilian, dead, penguins
Nature, Jul 15th, 2010,
According to China’s Civil Affairs Ministry, rainstorms and floods have left at least 118 people dead and a further 47 missing in southern China this month. Damage from the flooding includes the destruction of some 101,000 houses, the relocation of 1.1 million people and an estimated financial toll of around $3.3bn (€2.6bn). From a xinhuanet.com report: By 4 p.m. Wednesday, more than 32.3 million people in 10 southern provinces and Chongqing Municipality had been affected by continuous rainstorms and floods, the ministry said. Euronews reports that Japan’s northern Kyushu and Chugoku regions have experienced severe flooding, resulting 85,000 evacuation orders….
Tags: Asia, China, dead, extreme, flooding, floods, japan, Philippines, rainstorms, storm, typhoon, weather
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Jun 8th, 2010,
One of the world’s rarest mammals moved a step closer to extinction recently. The remains of a critically endangered male Javan Rhino were found 2 weeks ago in Ujung Kulon National Park of West Java, home to some of the last remaining Javan Rhinos. The park is home to approximately 44 of these rhinos, which are also some of the last of their kind. Unlike the rhino that was poached last month at Vietnam’s Cat Loc Reserve, it is believed this most recent death was of natural causes. The head of the Rhino Foundation of Indonesia, Widodo Ramono, speculated the…
Tags: critically endangered, dead, Javan Rhino, Nature, rare, Ujung Kulon National Park, West Java, wildlife
Natural disasters, Wildlife & Flora, May 30th, 2010,
Hurricane season is officially here: 16 people in Central America were killed by tropical storm Agatha. The storm hit land between Guatemala and Mexico, with wind speeds up to 45 mph (75 kph). Although the storm weakened to a tropical depression, it was still enough to trigger deadly landslides. One in Guatemala City killed 4 people and left 11 others missing; another killed 4 children in Santa Catarina Pinula, and in Quetzaltenango a loose boulder crushed a home–killing the 2 children and 2 adults trapped inside. On top of that, an additional 10 to 20 inches of rain was expected…
Tags: Agatha, Central America, dead, El Salvador, flash floods, Guatemala, Guatemala City, homeless, landslides, Mexico, missing, mudslides, Pacaya volcano, tropical depression, tropical storm, volcano eruption
Natural disasters, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 18th, 2010,
A tornado that ripped through part of India last week killed at least 131 people and made any attempt of aid a real trying task. Aid and rescue workers had to make their way through uprooted trees and downed power lines blocking roads to provide food and shelter to the hundreds of thousands of victims left homeless by the storm. In West Bengal state alone, at least 250,000 people became homeless, thanks to the cyclone. Srikumar Mukherji, minister for civil defense of West Bengal, stated: “We are facing a crisis in the relief operation. There is a shortage of manpower…
Tags: aid, Cyclone, dead, help, homeless, homes destroyed, India, relief, storm, struggle, tornado, victims, workers
Uncategorized, Apr 14th, 2010,
A series of earthquakes – the largest having a magnitude of 6.9 – struck a Tibetan region of western China today, killing at least 400 people according to an AP report. A further 10,000 were injured as houses collapsed and many remained trapped under fallen buildings – particularly schools – in Qinghai province. From a Wall Street Journal report: The quake hit shortly before 8 a.m. local time Wednesday, jolting Yushu prefecture, part of the Chinese province of Qinghai near the edge of the Tibetan plateau. About 97% of the population in Yushu is ethnically Tibetan. Many earn their living…
Tags: 400, China, dead, earthquake, earthquakes, Qinghai, Tibetan, Western
Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Mar 13th, 2010,
A flock of over 100 starlings plummeted to the ground and died in a woman’s front garden in the county of Somerset in England last Sunday. According to the London Times, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is investigating the strange and sudden death. Mrs Knight was told by a neighbour that the flock “fell” from the sky at 4pm on Sunday, half an hour before she arrived home. She said: “One of my neighbours said they literally seemed to just fall out of the sky. About 70 were dead straight away. –London Times Being…
Tags: birds, dead, fall, FlashForward, flock, london, starlings, sudden, Times
Videos & Documentaries, Feb 21st, 2010,
Heavy rains on the Portuguese island of Madeira have caused flash flooding and mudslides resulting in deaths and injuries this weekend. Streets in the main city of Funchal became rivers and several sections of road were washed away, making rescue efforts difficult. So far the death toll is estimated to be 38 with the number of injuries at 100, according to a report in the London Times. Those numbers are expected to rise Temporary shelters have been set up for the hundreds of people cut off from their homes or whose homes have been damaged. –London Times Homes, bridges and…
Tags: dead, death, flooding, floods, injuries, Madeira, Portugal
