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10/21/2017 5:14:44 PM

DHS Secretary Just Warned Of “Severe Threat” Of New 9/11-Style Attack By ISIS And Al-Qaeda

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10/21/2017 6:20:53 PM

FLYING INSECT NUMBERS FALL BY 75 PERCENT: WE ARE CREATING A 'PROFOUNDLY IMPOVERISHED WORLD'

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The total number of flying insects in protected areas in Germany has dropped by over 75 percent in the past 27 years. Scientists noted the major decline of bees, butterflies, moths and other winged creatures across 63 key areas and said it could not be explained by changes to habitat or weather, instead speculating that widespread pesticide use may be to blame.

Insects form the basis of many ecosystems, providing food for around 60 percent of bird species and playing a crucial role in pollinating wild plants. A decline in their numbers has the potential to cause huge disruption to the food chain—the valued of the “ecosystem services” provided by wild insects is estimated to be $57 billion annually in the U.S. alone.

Understanding insect numbers and the reasons behind changes to them is therefore vital to ensuring food security.

The latest research, published in PLOS ONE, looks at flying insect biomass in 63 protected areas across Germany. Scientists, led by Caspar Hallmann, from Radboud University, the Netherlands, used Malaise traps—tent-like structures—to assess their numbers each year. Researchers were aware numbers had been fallen, but they did not know to what extent.

A honeybee on a shamrock flower in a garden in Hede-Bazouges, western France, July 8.DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Their findings showed that between 1989 and 2016, total flying insect biomass had fallen by 76 percent. At some points in mid-summer, the number fell by as much as 82 percent. “This decrease has long been suspected but has turned out to be more severe than previously thought,” Hallmann said in a statement.

Analysis showed there was not one main contributing factor that could explain the decline seen across the study areas—including changes to land use, weather and habitat.

“The decline in insect biomass, being evident throughout the growing season, and irrespective of habitat type or landscape configuration, suggests large-scale factors must be involved,” the team wrote. “While some temporal changes in climatic variables in our study area have taken place, these either were not of influence (e.g. wind speed), or changed in a manner that should have increased insect biomass (e.g. temperature).”

They said that they have no yet looked at the full range of climatic variables, such as prolonged droughts and lack of sunshine. They also suggested “agricultural intensification,” including the use of pesticides, increased use of fertilizers and year-round tillage, could be a “plausible cause” for the decline.

Examples of operating malaise traps in protected areas in western GermanyPLOS ONE/HALLMANN ET AL

Concluding, they add: “Whatever the causal factors responsible for the decline, they have a far more devastating effect on total insect biomass than has been appreciated previously.”

One of the study authors, Dave Goulson, from the University of Sussex, U.K., said the rates of loss recorded are not sustainable. “Insects make up about two thirds of all life on Earth,” he said. “We appear to be making vast tracts of land inhospitable to most forms of life, and are currently on course for ecological Armageddon. On current trajectory, our grandchildren will inherit a profoundly impoverished world.”

Project leader Hans de Kroon, from the Radboud University in Nijmegen in The Netherlands, said the only thing we can do is exercise extreme caution by using fewer pesticides and maintaining wildflowers wherever possible.

“The fact that flying insects are decreasing at such a high rate in such a large area is an alarming discovery,” he said. “As entire ecosystems are dependent on insects for food and as pollinators, it places the decline of insect eating birds and mammals in a new context. We can barely imagine what would happen if this downward trend continues unabated.”


(Newsweek)

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10/21/2017 6:51:33 PM

Congress Is To Blame For The Opioid Epidemic Plus All Vaccine Tragedies; Investigate Both Now

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10/22/2017 12:38:05 AM
North Korea warns US it will 'respond to fire with fire' saying UN sanctions would be attempt to declare war

The Kim Jong-Un regime continues to ramp up the war of words, adding that the US will have to put up with North Korea's nuclear status

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Kim Jong-un's regime is not backing downNorth Korea has warned it will 'respond to fire with fire' as the war of words with the US continues.

An official for the country's foreign ministry made the alarming statement today, adding that the US will just have to put up with North Korea's military status.

Choe Son-hui, director-general of the North American department of North Korea's foreign ministry, said possession of nuclear weapons was 'a matter of life and death' for the regime as they are needed to respond to potential attack.

But the secretive state does not plan on having any talks with the US, the spokesman added.

Furthermore, the Choe told a non-proliferation conference in Moscow his country sees any attempt to 'strangle' North Korea via UN sanctions was an attempt to declare war.' which Kim Jong-un could use to launch country's nuclear missiles.

North Korea has issued another chilling threat to the US


Russia is pushing for a 'road map' to solve the North Korea crisis

Speaking at the same conference on non-proliferation in Moscow, Lavrov said that the break-up of a deal on Iran's nuclear programme would send an alarming message about international security mechanisms, and could impact the situation on the Korean peninsula.

The latest inflammatory rhetoric from North Korea comes as Kim Jong-un's country sent a letter to Australia's parliament warning their ally Donald Trump will "totally destroy the whole world".

"If Trump thinks that he would bring the DPRK, a nuclear power, to its knees through nuclear war threat, it will be a big miscalculation and an expression of ignorance," the letter, published by the Sydney Morning Herald, said.


NORTH KOREA 'BLOWS UP US AIRCRAFT CARRIER' IN PROPAGANDA VIDEO


Kim Jong Un also views UN sanctions as an attempt to "declare war"

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10/22/2017 10:33:22 AM

Ring of Fire latest: communities living in fear after latest massive earthquake

COMMUNITIES across Indonesia, Vanuatu and southwestern Japan are on edge after more rumblings from the earthquake and volcano hotbed dubbed the Ring of Fire.

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Increased activity around the Ring of Fire has put communities on edge

An earthquake struck Japan on Wednesday and was quickly followed by the latest eruption of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia - the latest incident in a worrying increase of seismic activity in the volatile region.

The 6.1 magnitude quake struck off Japan’s Ryukyu Islands at around 6pm local time, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Early reports suggested there were no damage or casualties but shaking was reported on inhabited islands nearest to the epicentre.

The tremors come just days after the Shinmoedake volcano in southwestern Japan started erupting for the first time in about six years.

It sent a plume of ash 1,700m from the crater and with cities and towns in the Miyazaki prefecture becoming covered.

Videos from the scene showed students wearing helmets and masks on their way to school at the foot of the volcano the following day.

Officials from Japan’s Meteorological Agency raised the volcanic alert level from two to three on a scale of five.

The 450 or so volcanoes that make up the Pacific Ring of Fire outline where the massive Pacific Plate rubs up against other plates of the Earth’s crust, creating a 25,000 mile-long zone prone to frequent earthquakes and eruptions.

It has lived up to its name in the past few weeks with a string if mass evacuations setting nervous communities in Indonesia, Vanuatu and now parts of southwestern Japan on edge.

Sinabung spewed a thick plume of smoke into the sky and sent lava spewing down the side when it erupted on Wednesday.

Sinabung
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A spectacular image of Mount Sinabung 's latest eruption

It has become a regular occurrence for the volcano in Karo, Indonesia, which began erupting in 2010 after lying dormant for four centuries.

Since then Sinabung has regularly spit hot ash into the air, and has often spewed lava.

Last year seven people were killed in a particularly violent eruption.

A five-mile exclusion zone has been set up around Sinabung.

Some 3,000 kilometres away on the Indonesian island of Bali, another volcano, Mount Agung, is also showing signs of erupting.

Mount Shinmoedake
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Japan's Mount Shinmoedake erupted for the first time in six years

More than 140,000 people fled Agung after its alert status was raised to the highest level two weeks ago.

Hundreds of tremors daily from the mountain indicate magma is rising inside it, prompting authorities to warn that a powerful eruption is possible.

The volcano spewed lava and fast-moving clouds of boiling hot ash, gas and rocks when it last erupted in 1963, killing more than 1,100 people.

The death toll from any new eruption would be much lower as officials have imposed a large no-go zone around the crater but it could paralyse tourism, which many on the island rely on for their livelihoods.

Mount Sinabung
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Mount Sinabung erupts in Indonesia

Indonesia has more than a tenth of the world’s active volcanoes and another two are also erupting.

Apart from the recent activity on Sinabung, Mount Dukono in the Maluku island chain is also periodically erupting.

The whole population of a Pacific island was evacuated in the space of a few days earlier this month to escape the belching Manaro volcano.

Agung
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Bali's Mount Agung has been threatening to blow for weeks

The 11,000 residents of Ambae island were moved by every boat available to other islands in Vanuatu, a Pacific archipelago nation, where they have been re-housed in schools, churches and tents.

Officials have since downgraded the volcano’s danger level but say the population must wait at least two more weeks before it is safe to return.

The island’s water supply and crops have been affected by volcanic ash and acid rain but most villages were spared major damage.


(express.co.uk)


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