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Environment
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BBC Weatherman Predicts Bucket Loads Of… Wait, What? [VIDEO]
21 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
BBC weather forecaster, Alex Deakin, managed to predict what no other weather forecaster has previously forecast on Saturday evening’s BBC World weather report. He meant to say “sunshine”, but he definitely didn’t, and instead conjured up a very strange weather prediction indeed. N5FW.
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Capetonians Are Reminded To Register Their Dogs With The Municipality By July
21 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Capetonian dog owners have been reminded to make sure their pets are registered with their local municipality by July this year, or risk having them impounded. The by-law received further attention from the City following an incident where a three-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of strays in Philippi last year.
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The Yosemite Park Firefall Has Begun [VIDEO]
21 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For around two weeks each February, the sunset turns the Horsetail Falls in Yosemite Park, California into an incredible bright orange “firefall” that looks like flowing lava. And it’s happening right now – take a look at the video after the jump.
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Elephant Poaching In Cameroon – Almost 300 Dead This Year Alone
21 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It would seem that South Africa is not the only country facing a poaching crisis. Demand for ivory has led to a massive spree of poaching in Cameroon, which has left almost 300 elephants dead since mid-January. This is according to the country’s minister of forestry and wildlife.
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Swedish Man Survives Being Trapped In Snowed-In Car For Two Months
20 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
I think we may have found wolverine. A Swedish man went for a drive a little while ago, December the 19th to be exact. Whilst on his drive, he was caught in a snowstorm which left him trapped in his car. On February the 17th, just two days shy of two months in a car, he was found. Alive.
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The Daily Show Gloriously Trolls PETA Over “Whales Are Slaves” Campaign [VIDEO]
20 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
PETA recently took up a lawsuit against SeaWorld on behalf of five killer whales. The animal rights campaigners even went so far as to compare the condition of these orcas to human slavery. The Daily Show responded by sending a black guy to interview someone at PETA. After watching this, pack up and go home, because this is the best thing you’ll see all day.
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Check Out The Awesome Underwater Dog Photography Of Seth Casteel [PICS]
16 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Seth Casteel is an award-winning photographer famed for his pictures of peoples’ pets. Check out this awesome gallery of underwater dog photos he produced after the jump!
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Heartland Institute Paid Scientists To Discredit Climate Change Research
16 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A bunch of emails have been leaked from the Heartland Institute, the think tank vaguely infamous for being at once massively skeptical of climate change and funded by billionaire global warming deniers, the Koch Brothers. The emails suggest that the Institute has been paying scientists and bloggers to discredit climate change research.
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Pit Bull Mauls Durban Pensioner To Death
16 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
65-year-old Allan Lorton, of Knight Road, Sherwood in Durban, died of his wounds on Tuesday after being viciously mauled in an attack by his neighbours’ pit bull. Neighbours and bystanders could only watch in horror as the pensioner bled profusely during the attack.
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Shakira Narrowly Escapes Cape Town Seal Attack
15 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
The Colombian pop singer and woman with the hips that don’t lie, Shakira, appears to have narrowly escaped the menacing attack of a Cape Fur Seal on the weekend. She’s been in Cape Town on holiday, and escaped with some minor cuts and bruises while attempting to take photographs of seals.
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New Woolly Mammoth Footage Was A Hoax, Repeat Hoaxer Caught Out Again
14 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last week 2oceansVibe correctly doubted the authenticity of footage that claimed a woolly mammoth had been spotted by a government-employed engineer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia. The video became an internet sensation, making headlines around the world. But now everyone is having a laugh at The Sun, Michael Cohen and Barcroft Media.
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Girl Pulled Alive From Avalanche Using Cellphone
13 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Nine people were recently killed in Kosovo when an avalanche covered their house under 10 feet of snow. A little girl, only five years old, was pulled alive from the snow after being buried for more than 10 hours. How do you find someone buried under a storey of snow? With their cellphone.
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Swiss Guy Installs Wood Stove As Heater In His Volvo, Beats The Cold
13 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
As the death toll from the bout of extremely cold weather in Europe has surpassed the 500 mark, a Swiss man is doing his best to stay warm. He’s installed a wood-burning stove to heat up his car when he needs to drive.
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Gender Bender: Man Gives Birth In Britain
13 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A man in his thirties has given birth to a healthy child, in what is Britain’s first “male mother” case in recorded history. The man, whose name has not been made public, was born a woman but underwent a sex change as an adult. The news has been met with much tsking from Brits, wondering whether the kid’s going to call him “Mummy” or “Daddy”.
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Calm After The Storm – A Wrap Up Of CT’s Weather Week In Photos
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Commenting on the weather is usually as insightful as commenting that a pregnant chick’s belly “is growing”. It’s obvious, a bit silly and we all still do it. But in Cape Town this week the weather really was worth mentioning – and worth looking back at.
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As The World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens, Check Out This Eco Radvertising Featuring The Cape Town Towers Demolition
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The 102 turbine Walney Offshore wind farm located approximately 15 kilometres off Walney Island, Cumbria, in the Irish Sea in the UK, is about to start harvesting the wind. It will provide electricity for 320 000 homes and the project has cost £1 billion.
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EPIC FAIL: Rhino Dies In Anti-Poaching Demo By Conservationists
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 9 Comments
I just had to look up the words “EPIC” and “FAIL” in the dictionary, and would you know, this story was listed underneath each description. A South African conservation group demonstrating an anti-poaching method for reporters accidentally killed the rhinoceros they were using in the demonstration.
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Scientists Retrieve Sample From Freshwater Lake Buried Under Ice For 20 Million Years
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Scientists have done something they have been working on for over two decades: successfully drilled more than three kilometres through sheer Antarctic ice into a freshwater lake to take a sample. All they really know now is that Lake Vostok has had no contact with atmospheric pollutants for millions of years.
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Rescued Dog Bites News Anchor In Face During Interview [VIDEO]
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
There have been two incidents recently where “rehabilitated” dogs have attacked people. Each time it sparked online discussions about whose fault it is – the owner, the dog or the victim? But these situations are much more complex. Check out this clip of a dog biting a news anchor, unprovoked, in the face during a recent interview.
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The World’s Oldest Works Of Art Have Been Found
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Scientists believe they have discovered the oldest works of art known to mankind. Although the six pieces are supposedly of seals, they’ve been described as somewhat of “an academic bombshell”. That’s because they’re 42 000 years old, and are the only known pieces created by Neanderthal man, who preceded homo sapiens, more commonly known as humans.
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Dolphins Swim And Jump Alongside Surfer [VIDEO]
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A teen surfing in the wake of a yacht off the Gulf of Mexico was pleasantly surprised when two animal friends decided to join him. Watch this very cool video – featuring a pair of curious Bottlenose dolphins swimming and jumping beside the boy – after the jump.
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Finally: SA And Mozambique Hold Urgent Rhino Poaching Meeting
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Monday, the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs in South Africa, Edna Molewa, met with the Minister of Tourism in Mozambique, Fernando Sumbana Junior. They met in Pretoria to discuss solutions to the rhino poaching epidemic occurring in the Kruger National Park. This is what they’ve concluded so far.
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Five Killer Whales Sue SeaWorld
07 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Peta, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has launched a lawsuit against SeaWorld in which five killer whales have been named as the plaintiffs. The court case argues that they deserve the same constitutional protection from slavery as humans.
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European Cold Death Toll Surpasses 300
06 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Overnight temperatures in Finland have been plummeting to minus 40 degrees Celsius, all forms of travel have begun to become severely effected, and the cold is expected to continue for days to come.
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Rare Pictures Of Amazonian Tribe First Sighted Last Year Released
03 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last year we reported about a tribe in western Brazil that had, until then, not been contacted by modern man. But they were a bit shy and even fired arrows at tourists in passing boats, resulting in the death of one man. Check out these rare images of them, taken from 120m away using a telescope mounted on a camera.
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Worldwide Malaria Deaths Grossly Underestimated
03 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
New research funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and published in the British medical journal the Lancet, suggests 1,24 million people died from the mosquito-borne disease in 2010: nearly twice the number previously estimated for that period. Oh, and six cases of infection were diagnosed in Pretoria recently too.
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Being Overweight May Be Linked To People-Pleasing Behaviour
02 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A question for all those hyper-nice, socially aware, dream dinner party guests out there – have you ever considered that your people-pleasing tendencies may be making you fat?
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Elephant Goes For A Surf
02 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
This does not happen, but it has: an elephant has decided it would like to go for a few waves and has been spotted surfing the beach breaks in Nuarro bay, just off the coast of northern Mozambique. Elephants don’t go into the sea, period, so this is definitely a rare sighting.
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European Freeze Claims Dozens Of Lives
01 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Dozens are dead and countless more are seeking medical attention as an icy winter rages on in Eastern Europe. At last count 58 people were reported dead in the last week, most of them succumbing to hypothermia and severe frostbite.
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Thai Elephant Meat Industry Growing
31 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A potentially devastating custom could pose a new threat to the survival of the species in Thailand – the taste for eating elephant meat. People are now eating everything from the trunks and sex organs, to straight up elephant sashimi.
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