- Nearly a hundred turtles 3 tons of shrimp along with lobsters and crabs wash up dead due to red tide at La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
- Freak storm turns holiday resort popular with Brits into a raging river: 153 liters of rain per square meter falls on Spanish city Malaga
- Kilometers of coastline covered in dead fish Just north of Brisbane Australia: Another mass die off leaving experts scratching their heads!
- Avian flu strain (H7N9) infecting humans: Taiwan's health authorities has reported this year's first case of a human infected by avian influenza (H7N9)
Nearly a hundred turtles 3 tons of shrimp along with lobsters and crabs wash up dead due to red tide at La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Posted: 20 Feb 2017 01:20 AM PST Photo BCS A red tide algae bloom is being blamed for the death of nearly a 100 turtles off the coast of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (Profepa) reported that the specimens had no evidence of fishing gear or any human activity, saying that the cause of death was the Red Tide. Each of the turtles found had been dead for more than 8 days, a further 3 tons of krill; a small shrimp like creature had also died. Photo BCS Dead lobsters and crabs had also been found in the area. Red tide is a disturbing phenomenon which is increasingly being blamed for the death of marine life and sea birds along the east coast of the Pacific from as far south as Chile all the way north to Alaska Red tide is also dangerous for humans causing breathing problems and has been known to kill pets. Home |
Freak storm turns holiday resort popular with Brits into a raging river: 153 liters of rain per square meter falls on Spanish city Malaga Posted: 20 Feb 2017 12:36 AM PST A road partially collapsed during the storm in Malaga last night (Photo: EFE) A storm sweeping across the south of Spain caused overnight flash flooding in the city of Malaga, where residents woke up on Sunday to survey the damages to infrastructure and property. Spain's weather agency, Aemet, said 153 liters of rain per square meter had fallen in the Andalusian city. Local emergency services reported over 200 incidents but confirmed that no-one had been killed or injured during the adverse weather conditions. They did report, however, an incident where a roof partially collapsed at an events arena during a concert. Malaga, which was founded by the Phoenicians, has steep city streets winding down towards the beachfront, making it susceptible to flash-flooding during times of heavy rain. Part of a main road running perpendicular to the slope of one of Malaga's sheer hills was completely collapsed by the previous night's heavy water flow. One resident's car had tumbled into the hole left behind by the road and it remained sandwiched between slabs of tarmac and broken subterranean pipes when emergency services surveyed the damage the following morning. Residents in other neighborhoods found that their cars had been picked up by the floodwaters and moved down the street. Several buildings were inundated during the storm, included an older people's home, a refugee center, a medical complex and a local government department where witnesses said streams of water had broken through the lower floor windows. A museum near the city's port area was also flooded in the course of the night. Along with the heavy rain, the storm brought with it a spectacular electrical storm - at least 456 lightning strikes were recorded by meteorological officials in the region. Aemet maintained a yellow alert for adverse weather in the Malaga region, advising the public to "be aware." Malaga's location on the Costa del Sol makes it a popular tourist destination during the summer months. Home |
Kilometers of coastline covered in dead fish Just north of Brisbane Australia: Another mass die off leaving experts scratching their heads! Posted: 20 Feb 2017 01:28 AM PST MASS DEATH: Many thousands of fish, thought to be a small species of leatherjacket, have washed up dead along the Cooloola Coast. After a week of extreme temperatures of nearly 50C and thousands of dead bats dropping from trees because of the extreme temperatures in parts of New South Wales and record rainfall in Sydney another disaster has unfolded along the Cooloola Coast as thousands of dead fish were reported to Department of Environment and Heritage Protection between Teewah and Double Island Point. Once again no one has a clue as to why thousands of fish have washed up dead along kilometers of the Cooloola Coast. And thousands more have been reported to The Gympie Times as lining the tide line along more than 1km at Rainbow Beach. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service rangers from Rainbow Beach had also noted dead fish during their beach patrols, an EHP representative said on Friday. The representative said the department had received two reports so far through its pollution hotline, involving large numbers of fish between Teewah and DIP. Rainbow Beach resident Ian Giesemann, who supplied the photograph (above), said they looked like leatherjackets, an assessment confirmed by Tin Can Bay fisher Joe McLeod. "They are a small species of leatherjacket that often gather in dense schools, sometimes in plague proportions and die. "They are also a common trawler by-catch fish. They float when they die and sometimes wash up. "It often happens on Fraser Island," he said. "There would be about 10,000 fish washed up on one 800m stretch alone," Mr. Giesemann said. "There were about 10 to 15 fish (about 100mm or a bit larger) a meter," he said. The EHP representative said fisheries officers had taken part in joint investigations with EHP and it seemed they might be trawler by-catch. "As in this case, the fish have mostly washed up over a large, relatively uninhabited area, the fish will be left to decompose naturally," the department representative said. Home |
Avian flu strain (H7N9) infecting humans: Taiwan's health authorities has reported this year's first case of a human infected by avian influenza (H7N9) Posted: 19 Feb 2017 08:32 AM PST RSOE ALERT MAP Click on image to enlarge red squares indicate human cases of bird flu. Taiwan's health authorities on Saturday reported this year's first case of a human infected by avian influenza (H7N9) and are actively tracking the health of as many as 108 people who came in contact with the patient over the past two weeks. Beijing on Saturday reported a human H7N9 avian flu case, the first human infection in the capital city in 2017, authorities said. The Centres for Disease Control (CDC) announced that a Taiwanese businessman in mainland China was confirmed to have been infected with the H7N9 virus several days after returning from the mainland on Jan. 25. The 69-year-old man, a Kaohsiung native, is now under intensive care and remains unresponsive. The man developed a fever on Jan. 23 while working in China's Guangdong province and had sought medical treatment there, said Lo Yi-chun, deputy director general of the CDC. He returned to Taiwan on Jan. 25 and went to a local hospital the following day. He was suspected to have been infected with avian influenza A. At the hospital, he tested negative for the H7N9 virus, said Lo. But on Jan. 29, the patient showed signs of a fever and coughing with phlegm and went to the hospital again, at which time doctors suspected that he had pneumonia. Home |
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