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Large locusts forming huge bands in Northwest NSW

This seem to be an expected, but this year unusually high amount of locusts. This problem dates back to first emerging in 2008.


http://theland.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and-general/general/here-come-the-locusts/1946185.aspx

News Video: http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/09/23/3020450.htm


Surveillance aircraft have captured images of "supersized" bands of locusts in northwestern NSW that are more than three kilometres in length.

NSW Primary Industries Minister Steve Whan has released the footage of the locusts near Walgett, taken during the first aerial surveillance mission of the plague season.....

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1362346/Locust-bands-found-in-northwest-NSW

Locusts swarm to northern NSW

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Millions of Tiny Spiders Spin Mystery in a British Columbia Clover Field

Sorry Old news .

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mudra wrote:Millions of Tiny Spiders Spin Mystery in a British Columbia Clover Field

Did you notice it was a news from 2002?

metaw3 wrote:

mudra wrote:Millions of Tiny Spiders Spin Mystery in a British Columbia Clover Field

Did you notice it was a news from 2002?

You are completely right.
Thanks for pointing this out metaw.
No I did'nt notice this .
I'll edit my post .

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Yet another area flooding and closing in on possible record levels due to again heavy torrential rainfall.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/24/midwest.floods/index.html?hpt=T2

The Iska River in Slovenia vanished overnight after residents reported hearing loud crashing sounds.
24 september 2010

source: http://gazbom.blogspot.com/

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Translated
"On Tuesday night the river Iska vanished between the villages of Iska Vas and Strahomer."... (Now here comes the official explanation)... "Slovene Environment Agency statement says that the water is flowing into the underground chamber underneath the water bed. This is the way the river disappears and reappears later down stream.This time this characteristic of the river is stronger because of the damages to the river bed."

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mudra wrote:The Iska River in Slovenia vanished overnight after residents reported hearing loud crashing sounds.
24 september 2010

source: http://gazbom.blogspot.com/

It's back! Weird stuff...
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Scientists investigate massive walrus haul-out in Alaska ‎
Scientists fear declining Arctic sea ice may have caused an unprecedented mass migration to dry land
13 September 2010 18.24 BST


Walrus high on the barrier beaches near Pointt Lay, Alaska, 2010. Photograph: USGS

Scientists in the Arctic are reporting a rare mass migration of thousands of walrus from the ice floes to dry land along Alaska's coast.

Researchers from the US Geological Survey (USGS), who have been tracking walrus movements using satellite radio tags, say 10,000 to 20,000 of the animals, mainly mothers and calves, are now congregating in tightly packed herds on the Alaskan side of the Chukchi Sea, in the first such exodus of its kind.

"It's something that we have never seen before in this area," said Geoff York, of the WWF's global Arctic programme. "As the ice decreases, the walrus are abandoning it earlier and earlier. They are having to swim ashore, or to linger on less suitable drift ice for long periods of time."

The flight of the walrus, first reported by the Alaska Dispatch, has reinforced warnings from scientists that the lumbering animal may be headed for extinction because of climate change.

Arctic sea ice dropped to its third lowest level in recorded history this month. The USGS study noted that the entire Chukchi shelf could be completely ice-free during August, September and October by the end of the century.

Read full article here : http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/13/walrus-haul-out-alaska


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Record high temperature in LA, California. National Weather thermometer stopped working.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/los-angeles-heat-wave-bak_n_740936.html

Stunned scientists warn world could run out of breathable air

Professor Ralph Keeling of Scripps Institute is worried. In fact, he's very worried.

SNIP

According to the data Keeling has meticulously collected since 1989 the world is running out of breathable air—and the rate that it's losing oxygen is now on the verge of accelerating.

Monitoring oxygen levels around the world is Keeling's job. He's very good at his job. And the data confirms that Earth's oxygen supply is dwindling.

Keeling created the famous ‘Keeling Curve,’ a graph that extrapolates the current trend of the oxygen depletion in the atmosphere. [1]

[The Cape Grim Observatory chart also depicts the ongoing depletion of breathable oxygen in the atmosphere.] [2]

Less oxygen equals less life

A long time ago, the Earth was very rich in oxygen. The air contained such an abundance of the element—close to one-third of the atmosphere was oxygen—that animals and insects grew to gargantuan sizes. For instance, the ancestors of dragonflies once had four foot wingspans.

But now, due to overpopulation by humans, animals—even insect colonies—and deforestation, the oxygen in the air is become a diminishing resource.

Pollution has had a significant impact and events like the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf disaster pumping up to a million times more methane into the ocean water serves only to speed up the already accelerating process.

Concerned scientists watching potential eruptions of super volcanoes—like the ones at Yellowstone or the Canary Islands—have already calculated the oxygen levels that would be displaced in our atmosphere should any of them erupt.

And the calculations' sums are enough to cause those in the know chronically sleepless nights.

The numbers have been crunched and the stark results stare researchers in the face: climate change is the least of our problems.

As heliophysicists have been pointing out, much of the global climate change has been driven by significant changes in the sun. A decade ago many astronomers took notice of the sun acting in ways never quite seen in history.

Now the sun is expected to reach solar maximum during the next several years and some scientists are making dire predictions about the havoc that solar flares may cause with our high tech civilization.

END SNIP

http://www.helium.com/items/1965918-keeling-curve-co2-and-loss-of-atmospheric-oxygen

Brazil Crops Shrivel as Amazon Dries Up to Lowest in 47 Years

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-24/brazilian-crops-shrivel-as-amazon-river-dries-to-lowest-level-in-47-years.html


Drought in Brazil, the world’s biggest producer of coffee, sugar and oranges, is harming crops and drying the Amazon River to its lowest in 47 years.

The Amazon’s 18-meter (59-feet) level on Sept. 20 was the least since 1963, disrupting transportation of food, fuel and medicines in northern Brazil, the National Water Agency said in an e-mailed statement. Growers in Brazil’s Southeast expect the drought will pare output of the nation’s key commodities.



Planting Delays

Soybean farmers in Brazil, the world’s biggest producer after the U.S., are delaying planting for the next crop as they wait for rains in center-western Brazil, Somar’s Bini said. Planting in Mato Grosso state, which produces about 30 percent of the country’s soybeans, usually starts in mid-September.

Soybean futures have risen 11 percent in Chicago this month on concern dryness in Brazil and Argentina may delay planting and reduce sowing of the oilseed.

Regarding the Amazon becoming dry: I think she/he is a being, too. The rain feeds the river and the rain has stayed away. The ones who kept the balance of the rainfall must be busy, or have been drawn away, or worse. Who is calling the rain there? Did the "machine wielders" eradicate all pure energy there? Who can go? Who is doing ceremony there if the rightful ones are gone? Ah, well, even the ones who disrespect will start paying attention now. Too bad it had to go so far. Linda

Evidence of Solar Scientists Raise Fears of Imminent Ice Age
By John O'Sullivan
Last Updated Sep 23, 2010,

New study by American solar experts identifies a sharp fall in sunspot activity since 2007 that fits the hallmarks of a soon arriving ice age.

read more: http://www.suite101.com/content/evidence-of-solar-scientists-raise-fears-of-imminent-ice-age-a288855

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Flood risks remain after heavy rains lash East Coast


http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/02/east.coast.rain/index.html?hpt=T2


CNN) -- A flood warning remained in effect for northeastern North Carolina on Saturday as heavy rains left some businesses underwater and scores of roads closed.

Flooding in North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania and New England killed at least eight people, officials said.

Bertie County in North Carolina was the hardest hit with waters as high as stop signs in some areas. Most roads were closed or partially closed.

"A lot of people cannot get to their homes," said County Manager Zee Lamb.

Rescue shelters were set up and animals in a small zoo were taken to higher ground.




North Carolina
"The county library is under 5 feet of water in the town of Windsor," Lamb said. "You cannot get to the courthouse by road. I got here by boat today."

Many businesses in the city are underwater, Lamb said, adding that the county has asked for state emergency assistance. Historic homes in the town were also damaged.

This is not necessarily an Earth Update, but this White House getting solar panels installed strikes me more as a means for government continuity when the grids are down, opposed to sending a message to further support solar energy.

Solar Power coming to White House
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/05/white.house.solar.power/index.html?hpt=T2

http://rt.com/prime-time/2010-10-04/coldest-winter-emergency-measures.html

After the record heat wave this summer, Russia's weather seems to have acquired a taste for the extreme.

Forecasters say this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in the last 1,000 years.

The change is reportedly connected with the speed of the Gulf Stream, which has shrunk in half in just the last couple of years. Polish scientists say that it means the stream will not be able to compensate for the cold from the Arctic winds. According to them, when the stream is completely stopped, a new Ice Age will begin in Europe.

http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/051010/nz___snow_hits_farmers_big_time_.aspx

NZ - Snow hits farmers big time 05 Oct 2010

Following a reasonably benign winter, the Southland region of New Zealand (NZ) has in the past week been hit by “the worst spring storm in living memory” according to the NZ Herald.

Six days of blizzards have caused deaths among new lambs numbering in the hundreds of thousands, and raised concern over the welfare of ewes yet to lamb.

Besides the effect of the cold weather itself, the continued snowfall has not allowed snow on the ground to thaw, making it much harder for stock to feed.

This makes ewes about to lamb particularly susceptible to metabolic illnesses from a lack of nutrients.

Reportedly, lamb mortality in the area may be as high as 15% for some farmers. With average prices for lambs expected to be around NZ$80/head this season (NZ Herald), the financial loss to NZ producers will be significant, estimated to exceed NZ$50 million (NZ Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry).

Hungary declares emergency after toxic spill
Hungary PM: sludge spill may be due to human error

Toxic sludge floods Hungary villages (01:22) Report
By Marton Dunai
KOLONTAR, Hungary | Tue Oct 5, 2010 1:10pm EDT
(Reuters) - Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties on Tuesday, a day after a torrent of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant tore through nearby villages, killing four people and injuring 120.

The waste, produced during bauxite refining, poured through Kolontar and two other villages on Monday after bursting out of a containment reservoir at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt plant, owned by MAL Zrt.

On Tuesday, the Natural Disaster Unit (NDU) said four more villages were affected and put the death toll at four. Six people were missing.

Others suffered from burns and eye irritations caused by lead and other corrosive elements in the mud. The flood, estimated at about 700,000 cubic meters (24 million cubic feet), swept cars off roads and damaged bridges and houses, forcing the evacuation of about 400 residents.

"We have declared a state of emergency in Veszprem, Gyor-Moson-Sopron and Vas counties," government spokeswoman Anna Nagy said. "In Veszprem county, it's because that is the scene of the disaster and the sludge is headed toward the other two counties."

Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the spill may have been caused by human error.

"We have no information at our disposal... we do not know of any sign which indicates that this disaster would have natural causes," Orban said. "And if a disaster has no natural causes, then it can be considered a disaster caused by people. We suspect that this may be the case."

He said tests had shown there was no threat of radiation.

People in Kolontar, which lies closest to the burst reservoir, were trying to recover their belongings but police were not yet letting them back into their flooded homes.

"My bathtub is full of this sludge ... when the dam burst, it made a terrible noise. I was in my yard, and I had to run up the steps to the porch but the water was rising faster than I could run," Ferenc Steszli, 60, told Reuters.

He said he escaped by standing on a table.

Farmland around the village was covered in the sludge and many livestock were killed.

PROTECTING THE DANUBE

The disaster unit said clean-up crews were pouring plaster into a nearby river to help neutralize the spill and attempts were being made to prevent the sludge getting into the Danube, a major European waterway.

A Greenpeace expert said the impact from the mud spill could be much worse than a cyanide spill at Baia Mare in Romania ten years ago, when cyanide-tainted water was discharged from a gold mine reservoir, polluting the Tisza and Danube rivers.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69415O20101005

I have a feeeling it was done on purpse..the moment I heard the news...

gscraig wrote:This is not necessarily an Earth Update, but this White House getting solar panels installed strikes me more as a means for government continuity when the grids are down, opposed to sending a message to further support solar energy.

Solar Power coming to White House
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/05/white.house.solar.power/index.html?hpt=T2

gscraig: You have a thought there! I imagine it would be highly practical in any event. If we had only listened to Jimmy Carter, we would all be ready to be at least partially off the grid. Demand creates further innovation. I'm about ready to bite the bullet as they say on solar panels. Trouble is, I live in a heavy forest. I'm into solar panel research on Amazon, if anyone finds any good links or advice to share...

Carol, I have the feeling that the Ice Age predictions may well be manifesting soon. It is just a feeling that there will be migrations toward the South, to Spain and Greece. I have one big question: how did the researchers pick 1,000 years? How do we know what the climate was like, really? We have fossil evidence and ice core samples, I presume. My guess is that it will take more than one winter to freeze out the northern part of Europe. If these changes are truly upon us, that's a tremendous movement of families. It makes me tired just thinking about how the Southern European countries will assimilate the millions...Where I lived we took on so many Katrina homeless from Louisiana into Georgia. In comparison to all of the European countries, it's a drop in the bucket. Time to pull out the compassion for these people, if they can get out and away in time. I have experienced Siberian winds in Berlin in the dead of winter. I couldn't imagine it being any worse, and I'm from big snow country originally. Are there any groups preparing for this potential? How about the Belgian and Deutsch (German) leaders preparing, does anyone know?