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Tropical Storm Fay expected to hit Fla. 3rd time

Florida, USA
Image: This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Storm Fay about 35 miles southeast of Daytona Beach Florida. Very heavy rains are continuing along the east coast of central Florida.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - Tropical Storm Fay hung offshore Thursday and poured more rain on Florida's central Atlantic coast after flooding hundreds of homes, trapping residents and leaving much of Florida a soggy mess.

Alligators, snakes and other wildlife were spotted in some flooded neighborhoods after high water drove the animals from their normal lairs.

Forecasters expected the storm to continue a zigzag course by hitting the state for a third time in a week, along with Georgia, but didn't think it would strengthen to a hurricane over the Atlantic.

Mysterious Booms Labeled Homeland Security Issue

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Punjab flood situation grim

India
Image:UNDERWATER WORLD: The Sutlej waters breached the embankments of the river by 150 feet.

Story: Thousands of acres of fertile land with sown paddy crop has been inundated by flood waters. Livestock was also washed away. This is the worst flooding in Punjab, which contributes over 50 per cent of the foodgrain to the national pool, since 1988. Hundreds of villagers were still waiting for help while being perched on rooftops of submerged houses and on train tracks.
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MIT solves puzzle of meteorite-asteroid link

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For the last few years, astronomers have faced a puzzle: The vast majority of asteroids that come near the Earth are of a type that matches only a tiny fraction of the meteorites that most frequently hit our planet.

Since meteorites are mostly pieces of asteroids, this discrepancy was hard to explain, but a team from MIT and other institutions have now found what they believe is the answer to the puzzle. The smaller rocks that most often fall to Earth, it seems, come straight in from the main asteroid belt out between Mars and Jupiter, rather than from the near-Earth asteroid (NEA) population.

"Dead Zones" Multiplying Fast

"Dead zones" are on the rise, says a new study that identified stark growth in the number of coastal areas where the water has too little oxygen to sustain marine life. There are now more than 400 known dead zones in coastal waters worldwide, compared to 305 in the 1990s, according to study author Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

Torrential Rains and Floods Cause Misery

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UK
Image: Streets in Giffnock were badly affected by flash flooding
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TORRENTIAL rain lashed much of the UK yesterday leaving two people dead and dozens of homes flooded.
A full scale clean-up operation was under way in Fife after properties in Cupar and Freuchie were swamped with up to five feet of floodwater.
According to meteorologists, almost half a month's rainfall fell in one night. A total of 31mm of rain was recorded at RAF Leuchars through the night, compared with 13mm in Edinburgh and the Borders.

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Flooding has affected several areas in the west of Scotland after heavy rain fell across the area for a third day.

Two feet of water covered streets in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, while streets in Giffnock in Glasgow and Greenock in Invercylde, were also badly affected.

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Volcanoes triggering volcanoes?

Alaska, USA
There's lots of volcanic action in the Aleutians arc at the moment, with three volcanoes: Okmok. Cleveland, and Kastochi, all erupting at various points in the last month or so.

Could the eruption of one have triggered the others?

Aleutian volcanos continue to cause problems

Alaska, USA
Satellite image of ashcloud
(Image: Alaska Volcano Observatory)

Aleutian volcanoes continue to cause problems - The ash cloud from Kasatochi Volcano has drifted over 1650 miles into the flight paths of aircraft in Anchorage and caused more than 50 flight cancellations Sunday and Monday. The oval shaped ash cloud was 300 miles at its widest point and moving around 39,000 to 40,000 feet in the air. This is an old ash cloud emitted during the initial eruption last Thursday. The ash might cause more delays over the next few days. Kasatochi may not be through erupting. "Our opinion is that it's still a restless volcano and it would not be a big surprise if we saw some more activity out at Kasatochi." They don't expect more large earthquakes in the region like were experienced last week. "That was VERY UNUSUAL. It's typically PRETTY RARE to see earthquakes that big associated with a volcano. We typically don't see that kind of seismic intensity."

Mount Cleveland also seems to be perking up again. AVO raised the volcano from yellow to orange Monday afternoon because of satellite images of new lava at the summit. "A lot of times when Cleveland produces a strong thermal anomaly at the summit, it's sometimes followed by an explosive ash emission. Sometimes these ash emissions can go high, above 30,000 feet."
Okmok is also at orange. Penair representatives say they are monitoring ash from all three volcanoes to see when they can resume flights to Nikolski and Atka.

Lava flow resumes at Kilauea vent

Hawaii, USA
Kilauea has started up again and lava is flowing from the Thanksgiving Eve Breakout vent. After a pause for several days without any lava activity on the surface of Kilauea, scientists Sunday reported a small surface flow moving northward and lava was once again reoccupying the tube system. However, no lava was flowing into the ocean. The paused flow indicates that the eruption, which began Jan. 3, 1983, and over the last several months delivered spectacular lava flow into the ocean at Waikupanaha, had shut down. Lava from the TEB vent, just inside the eastern border of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, had been flowing down the mountain, through the beleaguered Royal Gardens subdivision and eventually into the ocean at numerous places along the shoreline.

INDONESIA - Mt Anak Krakatau in the Sunda strait had 120 eruptions and quakes throughout Monday, prompting the Volcanological and Geological Disaster Mitigation Centger to declare the volcano and its surroundings in level-2 alert status. "Even now the volcano is still spewing red-hot lava and thick smoke." However, the frequency of the eruptions and quakes had been declining compared to those in the last two days.
Image: Satellite view of Anak Krakatau and surrounding islands in Indonesia. NASA Earth Observatory.

Live Interactive Broadcast: The Changing Poles

Strange Events At The South Pole

The Earth's Poles are Changing Fast
What Could be Causing This?


Nancy Lieder
Radio Commentator, Author & Lecturer
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Live Interactive Session Rescheduled for 11:30am CST

Listener Call-In: New CLICK TO TALK Feature. Listeners who wish to participate during our live internet radio show, must simply have a microphone connected to their computer and be logged onto our site. All questions directed to our guest should be short and specific.


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Despite it still being the winter season in the Antarctic, with temperatures as low as minus 85 Fahrenheit, the massive Wilkins Ice Shelf is collapsing with astonishing speed.In addition penguin populations are plummeting due to climate change and pollution And then there's the "FREAKY SNOW". Nancy Lieder an enhanced contactee and emissary of the Zeta Reticulians will discuss what's happening to the Earth's poles in an interactive broadcast you won't want to miss.

About Nancy Lieder

Nancy Lieder is an alien contactee and emissary. For more than a decade she has led the campaign to inform and prepare the public about the passage of the "Planet X", and to quell the controversy surrounding the existence of the rogue planet.

Nancy was featured in the April 2001 edition of Art Bell's After Dark magazine, predited pole shifts, and appeared on the Coast to Coast radio show and Out There TV most recently in 2007. Nancy recently had a weekly radio spot called "The Connection" on BBS Radio

ZetaTalk which debuted in 1995, has a well documented track record of earth changes while "Troubled Times" (a non-profit organization) has become a leading authority to offering solutions for surviving the predicted pole shift.

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Mystery deepens surrounding Kincardine area explosions

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Sudan floods displace more than 40,000

Sudan, Africa
Image: Sudanese people carry their shoes and sandals as they struggle through the flood waters east of the capital Kartoum, in 2007. The United Nations is scrambling emergency aid to more than 40,000 people displaced by floods in southern Sudan, a top regional official said on Thursday. (AFP/File/Isam al-Haj)

JUBA, Sudan (AFP) - The United Nations is scrambling emergency aid to more than 40,000 people displaced by floods in southern Sudan, a top regional official said on Thursday.

Seasonal heavy rains in Northern Bahr el-Ghazal state caused the Kuom river to overflow in the town of Aweil, making 39,000 people homeless in the region, officials said.

"This is an area of concern for us and we are looking to getting people on the ground quickly," UN regional coordinator for southern Sudan, David Gressly, told journalists.

The 2008 Perseid Meteor Shower

The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th and it should be a good show.

"The time to look is during the dark hours before dawn on Tuesday, August 12th," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "There should be plenty of meteors--perhaps one or two every minute."

About water on Mars, the origins of life and the future of Earth

MOSCOW. (Alexander Bagrov for RIA Novosti) - "Martian water has been touched and tasted" by NASA's Phoenix lander spacecraft, which has identified water in a sample of soil collected from Mars. This will expand our so far fragmented and incomplete knowledge about the origins of the Solar System.

It will also benefit evolutionary biologists looking for the origins of life. Currently they can study life on Earth, which is not enough for learning the origins of life and the rules of its development. Water is life, and finding extraterrestrial life would be extremely important for learning more about the world around us.

Wildfires ravage northeastern Spain

Spain
Several hundred firefighters backed by 16 water-dropping helicopters and airplanes battled Spain's first major wildfire of the summer on Wednesday, the authorities said.

The fire, which has ravaged over 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres) in northeastern Spain, broke out amid scorching temperatures on Tuesday afternoon in a pine forest near the town of Zuera.

Some 250 firefighters tackled the blazes, which the regional government said in a statement had started when a car hit a tree on the road linking the towns of Villanueva de Gallego and Castejon de Valdejasa.

Dallas expects 11th straight day over 100 F

Texas, USA
DALLAS - Temperatures across the Southern Plains were expected to be in triple digits on Monday, continuing a long stretch over recent weeks that have led to several heat-related deaths.

On Sunday, the nation's high was 109 degrees at Ardmore, Okla.

The Dallas area saw 107 F on Sunday, the hottest day of the year. A high of 105 F was expected for Monday, which would mark the 11th straight day of triple-digit temperatures there.

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Tropical Storm Edouard aims for Texas, La. coast

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Gulf of Mexico
Image: Tropical Storm Edouard formed near a major oil and gas producing area of the northern Gulf of Mexico August 3, 2008. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)

NEW ORLEANS - Tropical Storm Edouard took aim at the coasts of Texas and Louisiana on Monday, threatening to pick up strength from warm Gulf waters and gain near-hurricane speeds over the next 24 hours.

Edouard was expected to make landfall somewhere in Texas or southwest Louisiana on Tuesday morning. It was moving west near 8 mph, and forecasters said the warm waters of the Gulf provided the right conditions for the storm to intensify and approach hurricane strength with winds of 75 mph or more.

A tropical storm warning was in effect from the mouth of the Mississippi River westward to San Luis Pass in Texas. A hurricane watch was in effect from west of Intracoastal City, La. to Port O'Connor, Texas.

Edouard had maximum sustained winds near 50 mph with higher gusts at 8 a.m. EDT Monday. The storm's center was located about 80 miles south-southwest of Grand Isle, La., and 285 miles east-southeast of Galveston, Texas.

Ukraine: Worst Floods in 200 Years

Ukraine
Severe floods in western Ukraine have claimed the lives of 30 people and left nearly 20,000 homeless, Minister of Emergency Situations Volodymyr Shandra said Thursday.

Speaking at a special session of parliament, the minister said 23 people were drowned, three were struck by lightning, another three were electrocuted and the last one died in a landslide.

A total of 767 residential areas were flooded, 553 automobiles and 728 bridges damaged, and 660 km of roads washed away in western Ukraine, said Shandra.

In addition, 349 towns and villages were without electricity, the minister said.

Gloomy summer headed toward infamy

Alaska, USA

Right now the so-called summer of '08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 degrees.

That unhappy record was set in 1970, when we only made it to the 65-degree mark, which many Alaskans consider a nice temperature, 16 days out of 365.

This year, however -- with the summer more than half over -- there have been only seven 65-degree days so far. And that's with just a month of potential "balmy" days remaining and the forecast looking gloomy.

So if the cold and drizzle are going to continue anyway, why not shoot for a record? The mark is well within reach, Albanese said:

"It's probably going to go down as the summer with the least number of 65-degree days."

Montserrat volcano collapses

Montserrat, Caribbean

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: A dome over the crater of Montserrat's volcano has partially collapsed, spewing ash an estimated 40,000 feet (12 kilometers) into the Caribbean sky, scientists said Tuesday.

The collapse sent bursts of volcanic material sweeping into the abandoned former capital of Plymouth, which was buried in a 1997 eruption that killed 19 people, and on into the sea, according to the observatory.

Stewart said the dome of the Soufriere Hills volcano is expected to crumble further, leading to more explosions and lava flows.

Tanana, Salcha rivers flood Interior Alaska

Alaska, USA
Image: Charles Tressler wades his way along Howell Road as a pickup truck braves the rising waters as Salcha residents struggle with another flood caused by rising waters in the Tanana and Salcha Rivers due to recent heavy rains Wednesday, July 30, 2008

FAIRBANKS ? Downpours across Interior Alaska caused waterways including the Salcha and Tanana rivers to spill their banks Wednesday in a continuation of some of the worst flooding here in decades.

Much of the flood-prone community of Salcha woke to find flood waters had surrounded homes and filled crawlspaces after overnight showers brought two-day rainfall levels to a combined 4 inches.

The Tanana River, at well over 26 feet Wednesday evening, had risen to its highest level since the flood of 1967, National Weather Service hydrologist Ed Plumb said. The forecast was for more rain Wednesday night and this morning ? up to another inch in Fairbanks and another two to the northeast.

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Earth Frenzy Radio Show: Planet X-2012

Today on the Earth Frenzy Radio Show
More than half of Americans are convinced UFOs exist. And 75 percent of us believe the government knows more about them than it is letting on. Get ready for a story so shocking/revealing that it will make The X-Files look like a kid?s bedtime story.

Dr.Rand, a respected Ufologist and Researcher will reveal why an explosion in paranormal activity is set to occur between now and the year 2012, and why life on Earth will be fundamentally changed by what we experience.

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July 31, 10am CST

The Return of Planet-X: Wormwood

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7-square-mile ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

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Hundreds stranded by New Mexico flood

New Mexico, USA
Image: This photo provided by Ruidoso News shows flood waters turning a dirt road into a raging river at the River Ranch RV Park along Highway 70 between Glencoe and Ruidoso Downs, N.M. on July 27, 2007. About 300 people _ both residents and tourists _ were evacuated from homes, campgrounds and a recreational vehicle park as flooding hit around the resort town of Ruidoso after the remnants of Hurricane Dolly dumped an estimated 6 inches on the mountainous area. (Marty Racine/Ruidoso News/AP Photo)

RUIDOSO, New Mexico, July 28, 2008 (Reuters) ? One man was killed and hundreds of people were stranded in the New Mexico mountain town of Ruidoso by flash floods triggered by the remnants of Hurricane Dolly.

400 people fled from homes, camps and recreational vehicles, as the water rose. Another 200 people who had been camping in the forests near the town were cut off by the floods.

The deluge also destroyed 12 bridges in the area. About 60 homes were flooded, according to the office of Gov. Bill Richardson

Mysterious Noises Heard During Sunset

One reader, Natalie Tonking, emailed us with the following: "I was wondering if there was any explanation for the rumbling we heard yesterday afternoon. It could very clearly be heard in Horseshoe and Nelly bays (different people I spoke to) and at first sounded like distant thunder. But it continued at fairly regular intervals for at least an hour - just before sunset - if not longer."

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