UNION COUNTY, Ind. —A property caretaker was shot after confronting four people who were hunting on private property without permission in southwestern Union County.
The caretaker was inflicted with a gunshot wound after the conversation escalated in the morning hours of Friday, Jan. 6. They suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Information can be provided to Indiana Conservation Officer Central Dispatch at 812-837-9536, anonymously via TIP Hotline at 800-TIP-IDNR (800-847-4367), or online at theIndiana Department of National Resources website.
A hunter in the Pyrenees. According to figures by the French Office for Biodiversity, there were 90 hunting accidents in 2021-22.Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images
The French government has angered anti-hunt campaigners after refusing to ban hunting on Sundays during the season.
Instead, it has declared a ban on drinking alcohol and taking drugs while hunting, a move activists say is unenforceable, and will set up a voluntary application for hunters to indicate where they are active.
Bérangère Couillard, the ecology minister, said hunt organisers would be required to undergo training and there would be tougher sentences for those convicted of causing an accident.
The government bowed to pressure to address hunt safety after a senate inquiry prompted by the death ofMorgan Keane…
Killed by arrow in deer hunting stronghold, but in mid-town
STEELTON, Pennsylvania––Imagine an avid archery deer hunter, a poacher actually, who spots a big buck in rut just before dawn on Chambers Hill, overlooking Steelton, Pennsylvania.
Leaving his pickup truck, the archer follows the buck down into town through several cemeteries and/or the Dauphin Highlands Golf Course, south to the bank of the Susquehanna River, looking for a safe place to shoot, field-dress the carcass, and retrieve the remains without being seen.
Goldie Smith, right; deer on Chambers Hill, left; bowhunter, bottom. (Beth Clifton collage)
Spring Creek to the Susquehanna River
The most likely route to the river for a big buck in rut, old enough to be wary of being shot…
The world’s oceans were the hottest ever recorded in 2022, demonstrating the profound and pervasive changes that human-caused emissions have made to the planet’s climate.
More than 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions is absorbed in the oceans. The records, starting in 1958, show an inexorable rise in ocean temperature, with an acceleration in warming after 1990.
Sea surface temperatures are a major influence on the world’s weather. Hotter oceans help supercharge extreme weather, leading to more intense hurricanes and typhoons and more moisture in the air, which brings more intense rains and flooding. Warmer water also expands, pushing up sea levels and endangering coastal cities.
The temperature of the oceans is far less affected by natural climate variability than the temperature of the atmosphere, making the oceans an undeniable indicator of global heating.
Last year is expected to be the fourth or fifth hottest recorded for surface air temperatures when the final data is collated. During 2022, we saw the third La Niña event in a row, which is the cooler phase of an irregular climate cycle centred on the Pacific that affects global weather patterns. When El Niño returns, global air temperatures will be boosted even higher.
The international team of scientists that produced the new ocean heat analysis concluded: “The Earth’s energy and water cycles have been profoundly altered due to the emission of greenhouse gases by human activities, driving pervasive changes in Earth’s climate system.”
Prof John Abraham, at the University of St Thomas in Minnesota and part of the study team, said: “If you want to measure global warming, you want to measure where the warming goes, and over 90% goes into the oceans.
“Measuring the oceans is the most accurate way of determining how out of balance our planet is.
“We are getting more extreme weather because of the warming oceans and that has tremendous consequences all around the world.”
Prof Michael Mann, at the University of Pennsylvania, also part of the team, said: “Warmer oceans mean there is more potential for bigger precipitation events, like we’ve seen this past year in Europe, Australia, and currently on the west coast of the US.”
He said the analysis showed an ever-deeper layer of warm water on the ocean surface: “This leads to greater and more rapid intensification of hurricanes – something we’ve also seen this past year – since the winds no longer churn up cold sub-surface water that would otherwise dampen intensification.”https://interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/embed/2023/01/ocean_temperatures/giv-65622LVvystn8PP0/
Research released on Monday by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed that many extreme weather events in 2022 had been made more likely and more intense by the climate crisis, such as the heavy rain that caused devastating floods in Chad, Niger and Nigeria.
The analysis, published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, used temperature data collected by a range of instruments across the oceans and combined separate analyses by Chinese and US teams to calculate the heat content of the top 2,000 metres, where most of the heating occurs.
The oceans absorbed about 10 zettajoules more heat in 2022 than in 2021, equivalent to every person on Earth running 40 hairdryers all day, every day.
The researchers also analysed salinity, which along with temperature determines water density and is a vital driver of ocean circulation. An index of the variability in salinity across the oceans reached a record high in 2022, showing continued amplification of the global hydrological cycle.
Another important feature of the oceans is stratification, where the layering of water by density becomes stronger. This restricts the mixing of deeper, cooler and more nutrient-rich waters with surface waters.
The long-term trend of increasing stratification continued in 2022, the scientists found, with “important scientific, societal, and ecological consequences”.
One consequence, said Abraham, is that less mixing in the ocean means the surface layer absorbs less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, increasing global warming.
The researchers also said: “There are increasing occurrences of record-shattering heatwaves and droughts in the northern hemisphere, consistent with intensive ocean warming in the mid-latitude Pacific and Atlantic oceans.”
The heating of the oceans, and the impacts on extreme weather, will increase until humanity reaches net zero emissions.
In October, the World Meteorological Organization reported that the atmospheric concentration of all the main greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – had reached record highs. WMO head Prof Petteri Taalas said: “We are heading in the wrong direction.”
It is legal to recreationally trap and sell fisher pelts from Vermont on the international fur market. Photo: Front Porch Forum
Last year, the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department (VFWD) contracted with a leading natural resource survey firm, Responsive Management, to conduct a survey of Vermont residents’ knowledge and opinions of the department and their current furbearer conservation efforts. On November 29, 2022 VFWD received the final telephone survey report, which was conducted in October. VFWD staff says they will be analyzing the results from this science-based research project for many months to come and that the findings will be, “used to inform VFWD current and future furbearer management and outreach efforts.”
VFWD’s key takeaways from the survey include the claim that the majority of Vermonters support regulated trapping. But when those same Vermonters were asked whether they supported trapping for fur for clothing, recreation or “to make money”…
Sightings are so rare that no one has recorded the call of these elusive waders but a mission has begun to finally learn where they go when they disappear
Fewer than 350 Australian painted-snipes are thought to remain but the reason there are so few is not entirely clear because researchers lack knowledge about the species.Photograph: David Stowe
“Near-mythical” is how the ecologist Matthew Herring describes the Australian painted-snipe – one of this continent’s rarest birds.
“Some of these terms get thrown around,” Herring says, “but they really are.”
It is believed there are only about 340 individuals left, but that’s not all that makes them rare. Australian painted-snipes exemplify the saying “out of sight, out of mind”. Even birdwatchers with decades in the field forget they exist.
FILE – In this Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017 photo, a black bear checks out his surroundings in Granite Basin in Juneau, Alaska. The National Park Service is proposing a rule that would prohibit bear baiting in national preserves in Alaska, the latest in a dispute over what animal rights supporters call a cruel practice. The park service said Friday, Jan. 6, 2023 it is proposing a rule barring bear baiting in national preserves in Alaska.Becky Bohrer/AP
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Bear hunters in Alaska would no longer be able to use bait, such as pastries, dog food or bacon grease, under a proposed rule by the National Park Service on Friday that would prohibit bear baiting in national preserves in the state.
It’s the latest in a dispute over what animal rights supporters call a cruel practice. The…
Remsen, N.Y. — A man accidentally shot himself while hunting in Oneida County Saturday afternoon, deputies said.
Around 1 p.m., deputies received a report of a man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen in the woods off Old Stage Road in the town of Remsen, according to a news release from the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office. The man was walking to the nearest road, deputies said.
Deputies found the man and he was rushed to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Utica. He is expected to make a full recovery, deputies said.
The man shot himself while hunting in a tree stand, deputies said. He lost control of his gun and one round from his .22 caliber gun fired into his abdomen, they said.
The incident is still under investigation, they said.
Thirteen bison are dead after being hit by a semi-truck on a Montana highway on Wednesday night, police have said.
The semi-truck also collided with two vehicles, according to a statement from the West Yellowstone police department. No people in the vehicles involved in the accident were hurt.
Those Bison not killed outright by the crash but were severely injured were euthanized, according to the release.
The accident happened on U.S. Highway 191, just north of the town of West Yellowstone, which serves as a western entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
Only the semi-truck hit the bison, although an initial statement said that the other vehicles involved in the accident also struck the animals. Police wrote a correction in its latest press release.
An official investigation into the accident is being conducted, police said.
Hard to See at Night
Bison can be hard to see at night because of their dark brown color and because their eyes don’t reflect in headlights like deers’ eyes do, police said.
Bison are usually found in these areas and nearby roads because of the abundance of wildlife in the wider area. During winter months, they can also often be found “near paved roadways and snowmobile trails due to these areas being easier for them to travel,” police said.
“We are always saddened by any of these incidents, particularly when so many animals are lost,” they said.
“We would like to take this opportunity to remind all drivers to slow down and drive appropriate to the road and weather conditions. Although speed may not necessarily have been a factor in this accident, road conditions at the time would dictate travelling below the posted speed limit.”
Yellowstone National Park is home to a population of bison that fluctuates from between 2,300 to 5,500 animals, according to the National Park Service. The park is the only place in the United States where bison have continually lived since prehistoric times, says the service.
The Associated Press and CNN Wire contributed to this report.
Those Bison not killed outright by the crash but were severely injured were euthanized, according to the release.
A Rover Scout holds a placard and a banner amid traffic during a No Horn campaign in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Photograph: Sazzad Hossain/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock
Noise pollution is one of the gravest yet least recognized health threats of our time. Even moderate levels of noise – the kind that surrounds us in any urban environment – increase risks of cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, developmental delays and dementia. Now, scientists are revealing that non-humans, too, suffer from noise pollution – and that they are far more sensitive than humans.
Perhaps nowhere is this more urgent than in the global oceans. Marine animals see and sense the world through sound, which travels faster and farther underwater than light. Whales – which use sound to find prey and navigate…
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Exposing the Big Game 