Posts Tagged ‘cyclone’

Sott Exclusive: ‘Cone of silence’ over Fort McMurray following devastating wildfire – ANYONE going to ruined city must sign non-disclosure agreement

     One of the largest wildfires ever observed in Canada, the area burned by the Fort McMurray wildfire in Alberta, aka ‘The Beast’, currently stands at over half a million hectares, has spread to neighboring Saskatchewan, and may not stop burning ‘for months’. Canada has seen bigger wildfires, but nothing like this has ever affected […]

Giant oarfish emerges after being woken by earthquake off Taiwan

     A monster sea creature has surfaced from beneath the deep after being disturbed by earthquake tremors. This giant oarfish measures a massive five metres (16ft) long – almost three times to height of the fisherman who landed the catch. And the so-called “earthquake fish” is freaking locals out after emerging just two hours after […]

Signs and Portents: Rare two-headed python hatched in Wodonga, Australia

     Snakes are creepy enough, but a python that hatched with two heads is taking the Internet by storm. The baby snake is only a week old, born last Saturday. Owner John McNamara, who is an Australian snake breeder, thought he just had twins, but it was more. From the tail to the neck, the […]

U.S. Air Force Removes B-one Bombers From ISIS Campaign

B-1B Lancer bombers covering operations in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State/ISIS are to return to the U.S. for scheduled cockpit upgrades, according to the USAF Central Command. Russia Today reports: With the B-1 taking a back seat, the campaign may lose a “little flexibility,” but the USAF has plenty of other aircraft to […]

Bush fire blazes near New Jersey oil refinery

     A brush-fire nearing a Sunoco oil refinery in West Deptford Township, New Jersey has already covered 25 acres. The fire, which began at about 9:00 pm Friday remains at “one alarm,” meaning a small unit of firefighters have been dispatched, though a local NBC station reports backup has been called. Officials are saying there […]

Investigation reveals broken system that allows cops accused of sexual abuse to jump from job to job

     A “tattered network” of laws has allowed law enforcement officers accused of sexual abuse to hop from job to job, according to an AP investigation. Some of the officers were accused of additional misdeeds – including rape – after moving to new positions. AP found about 1,000 law enforcement officers who had lost their […]

Israeli Minister Says Stray Cats Should Be Deported!

An Israeli cabinet minister has sparked outrage and mockery after suggesting that the thousands of stray cats that walk the streets of Israel should be transferred to another country. In a letter to the environmental protection minister,  the agriculture Minister Uri Ariel,  offered to take the budget issued for the spaying and neutering of stray animals […]

New Species Of Coywolf Explode Across North America

A new hybrid of wolf and coyote called the coywolf or the eastern coyote have increased in population numbers in eastern U.S.A. This is one of the great success stories of interspecies animal breeding as the coyote-wolf hybrid ‘coywolf’ can now count its numbers in the millions. The Independent reports: This new animal, which has […]

New Species Of Coywolf Explode Across North America

A new hybrid of wolf and coyote called the coywolf or the eastern coyote have increased in population numbers in eastern U.S.A. This is one of the great success stories of interspecies animal breeding as the coyote-wolf hybrid ‘coywolf’ can now count its numbers in the millions. The Independent reports: This new animal, which has […]

Saddam-style: ISIS oil exports worth $500m a year ‘conducted through Turkey’

“It’s a question of priorities. They have never allocated enough resources to do so. Other goals and missions have been rated as having more urgent calls on intelligence and tactical resources,” John Kiriakou, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterterrorism officer and US Senate Foreign Relations Committee senior investigator, told Sputnik. He said Islamic State’s […]

Some like it hot: Moth and butterfly species respond differently to climate change

Morpho didius – Museum specimen. Credit: Wikipedia New research led by ecologists at the University of York shows that certain species of moths and butterflies are becoming more common, and others rarer, as species differ in how they respond to climate change. Collaborating with the Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the […]

Spirals in dust around young stars may betray presence of massive planets

A computer model reproduces the two-spiral-arm structure; the “x” is the location of a putative planet. The planet, which cannot be seen directly, probably excites the two spiral arms. Credit: NASA, ESA, ESO, M. Benisty et al. (University of Grenoble), R. Dong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and Z. Zhu (Princeton University) A team of astronomers […]

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