Budleigh Salterton, on the south coast of Devon, sits above the most frightening cliffs on Earth. They are not particularly high. Though you don’t want to stand beneath them, they are not especially prone to collapse. The horror takes another form. It is contained in the story they tell. For they capture the moment at which life on Earth almost came to an end.
The sediments preserved in these cliffs were laid down in the early Triassic period, just after the greatest mass extinction in the history of multicellular life that brought the Permian period to an end 252m years ago. Around90% of species died, and fish and four-footed animals weremore…
An Aurora hunter recently died in the woods off Massbach Road in rural Elizabeth, according to police.(Google Maps)
ELIZABETH, IL — An Aurora man died over the weekend after an apparent hunting accident in northwest Illinois, according to police.
Russell P. Ory, 66, was reported missing shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday in the 8300 block of South Massbach Road in rural Elizabeth after he had not been heard from for about three hours, according to the Jo Daviess County Sheriff’s Office. Police used a K-9 to find Ory, who was in the woods on the property, below a tree stand after an apparent fall, authorities said.
North Korea fired a total of 23 missiles that were a combination of ballistic and surface-to-air weapons.
The tests included four short-range ballistic missiles fired at 6:51 a.m. local time from its North Pyongan Province into the West Sea. Two hours later, the North fired three short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) one of which landed in the waters below south of the NLL, or North Limit Line.
A woman walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with live footage of the…
A huge asteroid is heading toward Earth’s orbit – but astronomers aren’t worried.
A hugeasteroidis heading towardEarth’sorbit — but astronomers aren’t worried.
The rock has a diameter of 1.1 to 2.3 km and has been named 2022 AP7, discovered between the orbits of Earth and Venus.
The study, written up in theAstronomical Journaland conducted by the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, said it was the largest planet killer-sized asteroid seen in eight years.
It was found through the Blanco 4-meter telescope in Chile.
2022 AP7 is one of three “rather large” space rocks which could be hazardous, and may even be in the top 5% of the largest ever found, according to the astronomers.
GRAHAM COUNTY – A man was flown to an out-of-area hospital for surgery on Wednesday, Oct. 26, after being shot in the face with a shotgun in a hunting accident.
According to a Graham County Sheriff’s Office report, the victim was quail hunting with his friend when some quail flew out of the bushes between them. The victim’s friend fired without realizing where the victim was and accidentally shot him.
The victim reportedly had pellet holes in his face, right arm, and chest. Due to how close some of the pellets were to the victim’s nerves, he was flown from Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center to another hospital for more specialized surgery.
The incident was listed as a hunting accident with no further action…
Wildlife and vehicle collision data from 23 states show that drivers would hit and kill 37,000 fewer deer if the U.S. stuck to daylight saving time year-round. It would also prevent dozens of human deaths.
Drivers would hit and kill 37,000 fewer deer each year if the United States stuck to daylight saving time year-round, according to estimates in a new study published Wednesday in the journal Current Biology.
The study predicts that keeping year-round daylight saving time — and reducing the amount of time that rush-hour traffic takes place during darkness — would prevent 33 deaths and some 2,000 injuries among people, and save about $1.2 billion in collision costs.
“The numbers are surprisingly large,” said Laura Prugh, an associate professor of wildlife science at the University of Washington and an author of the study. “It’s just noticeable that a seemingly simple change — not changing the clock back in the fall, not falling back — would lead to such a marked reduction in collisions throughout the country.”
The research highlights how subtle changes in human behavior can have major impact on animals. It also adds more ammunition to the charged debate over seasonal time changes and could bolster political arguments for moving the U.S. to permanent daylight saving time.
Daylight saving time is when many parts of the world set clocks ahead by one hour to shift sunlight later in the day.
About 2.1 million vehicle crashes in the U.S. each year involve deer, the study says. These crashes account for 440 human deaths each year.
To understand the effect of seasonal time changes, researchers gathered wildlife and vehicle collision data from 23 states and then created a model to estimate impacts nationwide.
Deer are most active on both sides of dawn and dusk, and the data showed that drivers are far more likely to hit deer when it’s dark.
“If you drive two hours after dark, you’re 14 times more likely to hit a deer than if you drive before dark,” said Calum Cunningham, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington and an author of the study.
The data also showed that car crashes involving deer spiked in the fall.
For deer, there could be no worse time of year for humans to suddenly shift their schedules.
“The time switch occurs pretty much exactly smack bang in the middle of the mating period, in particular, for white-tailed deer,” Cunningham said.
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During the rut, as mating season is called, male deer “go a little bit crazy, they increase movement and are fixated on reproducing,” he said.
Deer move about 50% more during the rut and are more vulnerable to being struck by vehicles, the study says.
That means when people’s schedules switch to standard time, the clock aligns the heaviest traffic with darkness and during the peak of mating season. The researchers found that collisions with deer increased about 16% in the week after the switch.
“It’s like the perfect storm. These deer are going crazy. They’re really most at risk already and we have this additional change of adding more driving after dark in this switch,” Cunningham said.
After the time switch, fewer deer are killed in the mornings because there’s more light. But not enough drivers set out before dawn to offset the increase in collisions during evening rush hour.
States in the northern U.S. would reduce collisions most from permanent daylight saving. Locations on the eastern edge of their time zone — where it gets dark earlier — would also benefit more.
Some states don’t keep high quality data on wildlife crashes, so the study’s overall numbers are just estimates. But the trend the researchers found runs parallel to what a separate analysis found in New York state.
Tom Langen, a professor of biology at Clarkson University who studied the effect in the state, praised the new study, saying it answered questions about what impact would be nationwide and did a good job accounting for data gaps.
“The bottom-line message is that it’s a big number,” he said. “It’s likely correct that the time shift, and particularly the shift from daylight saving time to standard time in the fall, results in some human deaths and a lot of accidents that would not happen.”
Doctors and researchers, particularly those with the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have opposed a permanent switch to daylight saving time. They argue that standard time is more beneficial to health because our bodies function better with more sunlight in the morning.
But a change to permanent standard time would worsen deer-vehicle collisions significantly, the model predicts, causing nearly 74,000 more crashes, 66 human deaths and more than 4,100 human injuries.
“On the whole, we need a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of the way daylight saving time impacts our health and environment,” Cunningham said.
CORRECTION (Nov. 2, 1:21 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated how daylight saving time works. Clocks are set ahead by one hour in the spring, and back an hour in the fall.
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WASHINGTON — Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to discuss when and how Moscow might use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, contributing to heightened concern in Washington and allied capitals, according to multiple senior American officials.
President Vladimir V. Putin was not a part of the conversations, which were held against the backdrop of Russia’s intensifying nuclear rhetoric and battlefield setbacks.
Arock climber discovered a large desert bighorn sheep carcass near a state highway in western Colorado on Monday, Oct. 31. Now, Colorado Parks and Wildlife isasking for the public’s helpto find the poacher who killed it.
The ram, whose horns made a 5/8- to 3/4-turn, laid dead next to Highway 141 between Grand Junction and Gateway. Responding officers determined the ram was shot more than 24 hours prior to the discovery. The bullet was lodged behind the ram’s front shoulder.
“The ram was shot and left there with nothing removed from it,” CPW wildlife officer Kevin Duckett says in the press release. “There is a desert bighorn sheep hunting season in that unit, but it [did] not start…
I Sent an Email to Filmmaker Michael Moore Asking Why Aren’t Our Fellow Animals on Your Progressive Agenda?
Alienation and isolation from the living world of planet Earth
Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns, October 30, 2022, responded to Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #31 <https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/midterm-tsunami-truth-31> by emailing Michael Moore at michaelmoore+mikes-midterm-tsunami-of-truth@substack.com.
Dear Michael Moore,
You and I are on the same side of social justice and politics. I appreciate your commentaries and exhortations on behalf of victimized human beings and, in a general way, the environment and the “climate.”
But I would like to know why you and the majority of “progressives” show no awareness of or interest in or compassion for the animals who share the planet with us. Progressives talk about the planet and climate change in a very abstract way. To read you and others, it’s as if nothing and nobody exists outside the human isolation chamber – a self-constructed prison containing only ourselves and our ever-mounting mountains of trash. “Out there” is “the climate” which we have to consider because our abuse of the earth and its creatures, whom we are either exterminating or incarcerating, is affecting the human animal’s pursuit of happiness (shopping, money, materialism) adversely.
Perhaps my memory is faulty, but I seem to recall hearing you on MSNBC a few years ago speaking in a somewhat jocular manner about shooting birds, for fun, with your friends growing up. Pretty soon, there will be few or no birds left, the rate of their decline, because of us, is so dramatic. The only birds will be the countless chickens, turkeys, ducks and various others condemned to live in humanity’s toilet bowls and sewers, i.e., industrialized sheds in preparation to be tortured – TORTURED – with paralytic shocks prior to having their throats partially cut before millions and millions are scalded alive each year, in this country alone, in slaughterhouse scald water tanks – all this maniacal, human-manufactured FASCIST evil for “KFC” and depraved culinary savagery.
Let us not omit the countless birds, mammals, and other poor souls being tortured, with impunity, in NIH-funded laboratories in the U.S. and elsewhere. Let us not forget the countless millions of chickens, turkeys and ducks who are being intentionally suffocated and baked alive, in laboratories and on factory farms, all to protect the poultry industry, which is itself responsible for the ever-mutating strains of avian influenza viruses, and that taxpayer are footing the bill for agribusiness indemnities paid through USDA programs. Let us not forget all the wolves, coyotes and others being shot from helicopters and poisoned by U.S. Fish and Wildlife and its state affiliates for the livestock industry. The rainforests in Brazil and Asia are being destroyed for this industry: 75-80% of soybeans grown in the Brazilian rainforest are grown to feed chickens and other industrially-confined farmed animals.
I will conclude by saying, simply, that our species is the one species on Earth that no other species, animal or plant, needs in order to thrive, except perhaps for certain host-specific microbes. We bring misery, terror, depletions and poisons everywhere we penetrate ourselves into. Is this going to continue into Eternity? Are mainstream “progressives” congenitally incapable of even acknowledging the existence of beings outside ourselves? We are ruining the planet for all these creatures who are NOT ruining the planet. Are these beings really not in your consciousness at all? It isn’t just “Trumpism,” narrowly construed, that’s the problem. Toward our planet and its other-than-human individuals, species, homes and habitats, our species, with miniscule exceptions, is ALL TRUMPISM: brutal, callous, pitiless, selfish, sociopathic.
I would appreciate a meaningful response from you. Please do not bother with a pro forma. Thank you for your time.
The following is a joint news release from Idaho Fish and Game and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office. Photos: Madison County Jail, Idaho Fish and Game
REXBURG — Brayden Froehlich was sentenced in District Court in Madison County Monday for multiple wildlife crimes including one felony count of unlawfully killing, possessing or wasting wildlife and one misdemeanor count for hunting with a revoked license.
Froehlich’s initial 2-year license revocation stemmed from a prior prosecution in 2020 after officers received a tip from the Citizens Against Poaching hotline, alerting them that Froehlich had killed a deer with a rifle during archery season. In addition to his wildlife crimes, Froehlich was also convicted of a felony burglary charge that occurred in Madison County.
An intensive investigation by Idaho Fish and Game Conservation…
