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Mass dolphin strandings at Cape Cod
January 25, 2012
At least 85 dolphins have beached themselves in a shallow inlet of a US nature reserve at Cape Cod, officials said on Tuesday, adding that the cause of the mass strandings remained a mystery. A spokesman for the International Fund for Animal Welfare said the huge number of beached mammals over the last two weeks, with most of them dying, was close to the amount usually recorded in the course of a year. "We had a total of 85 confirmed strandings since January 12 and that number might be as high 101," shill Cady said. "There are still about 16 dolphins reported in difficult locations we haven't been able to confirm."
[link to www.smh.com.au]






[link to www.pressofatlanticcity.com]
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
OCEAN CITY — The second largest animal on Earth created an equally huge mess on the Seventh Street beach. Ocean City Public Works crews raced the tide Tuesday to dispose of a dead finback whale that washed ashore Monday creating an oily, smelly mess within sniffing distance of the island’s most populous north-end neighborhoods.





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30-foot beached whale found dead at Ft. Pierce inlet
January 24, 2012 1:07 PM
FT. PIERCE, Fla. -- A humpback whale died overnight in Fort Pierce after beaching himself on a sandbar in the inlet, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Apparently the animal washed in overnight. FAU's Harbor Branch Marine Mammal Rescue Team along with Sea World and the FWC are trying to figure out exactly what happened. A local fisherman spotted the whale in distress about 11:00 Monday night and called the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard immediately alerted Florida Fish and Wildlife, but by 2:30 a.m. the whale had died.




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Jacksonville, NC Team evaluating stranded whale
January 25, 2012 4:55 PM
A live minke whale was found Wednesday afternoon beached along the shore of Cape Lookout National Seashore. A team with the Marine Mammal Stranding Network and at least two veterinarians were at the scene evaluating the whale, according to Michael Rikard, a resource management specialist with Cape Lookout National Seashore. Rikard said he was not at the scene but the whale was found beached on the ocean side of Power Squadron about 1.5 miles west of Cape Lookout point. The whale was reported to be about 9-feet, 11-inches in length.



Wednesday, January 25th 2012 02:41pm
[link to www.kbnd.com]
Two whales have washed ashore on the Washington coast. Keith Chandler with the Seaside Aquarium says tests will be done to determine how the whales died. One is a gray whale; a type of whale commonly seen by whale watchers on the coast. The 13-foot newborn was found near Oysterville. The other is a 39-foot sperm whale, which is not as easy to find. They swim in deeper waters further from the shoreline. It beached near Seaview.



Refloated whales beached again in NZ
January 24, 2012
[link to news.smh.com.au]
Forty whales are again stranded on the northern coast of New Zealand's South Island after failing to move out with the tide. The pilot whales were refloated by rescuers when high tide arrived around on Tuesday morning after having spent much of Monday on the on Farewell Spit. Rescuers had hoped they would move out to sea but by 1.45pm, local time, they were stranded again."We tried to encourage them to move to deeper water, but they wouldn't move.


33 whales shot after beaching in New Zealand
January 26, 2012
THE last 33 pilot whales from a pod of 99 that stranded on Farewell Spit in New Zealand's Golden Bay have had to be shot after washing back onto the beach.
Only 17 whales have survived the third mass stranding this summer. The group of 33 whales - seen swimming to safety yesterday - were found again back on the spit in extreme distress this morning and the decision was quickly made to shoot them, Department of Conservation spokesman Nigel Mountford told NZ Newswire.
[link to www.news.com.au]


5,000 fish found dead in Perth's Swan River
Updated January 24, 2012 18:53:49
[link to www.abc.net.au]
About 5,000 dead fish were discovered between the Middle Swan Bridge and the Ellen Brook in the upper reaches of the river. Swan River Trust spokesman Mark Cugley says recent rain and hot weather have decreased oxygen levels in the waterway and that particular area is outside the reach of the river's oxygenation plants.


Worst fish-kill in recent times off Guyana and
Wednesday, 25 January 2012 14:34
[link to www.demerarawaves.com]
In what authorities believe is one of the worst fish-kills in recent times, a lot of Curiass is being washed up on the Guyanese and Surinamese foreshores, apparently due to murky Atlantic Ocean waters and the discharge of freshwater into the sea.

Monday, Jan. 23, 2012
RADIATION STORM IN PROGRESS: Solar protons accelerated by this morning's M9-class solar flare are streaming past Earth. On the NOAA scale of radiation storms, this one ranks S3, which means it could, e.g., cause isolated reboots of computers onboard Earth-orbiting satellites and interfere with polar radio communications. An example of satellite effects: The "snow" in this SOHO coronagraph movie is caused by protons hitting the observatory's onboard camera. [link to spaceweather.com]

M8.7 Solar Flare and CME with Proton Event January 23, 2012




Thread: Amazing Eagle in the sky after this recent solar event.


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