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Space Weather Update~POSSIBLE EARTH-DIRECTED CME:

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CME IMPACT: As expected, a coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field on March 15th at approximately 0500 UT. The impact was weak, but conditions for geomagnetic storming could develop as Earth passes through the CME's wake. High latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras on March 15th and 16th. Aurora alerts: text, voice.

 

POSSIBLE EARTH-DIRECTED CME: A magnetic filament snaking around sunspot AR1692 erupted on March 15th at about 0600 UT. The slow explosion, which took hours to unfold, produced an M1-class solar flare and a bright CME. SOHO (the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) captured the CME just as it was leaving the sun:

 

Toxic gas levels rise at tourist site Dieng

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The Jakarta Post Suherdjoko and Arya Dipa, The Jakarta Post, Semarang/Bandung | Headlines | Wed, March 13 2013, 4:05 PM

The alert status in the Dieng Plateau region of Banjarnegara, Central Java, has since Monday evening increased one level higher from Normal to Waspada (cautious) due to the discovery of the toxic levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the area.

The decision was made by the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center (PVMBG) following the increase in CO2 concentration in the Timbang crater area in Batur district since Sunday.

“Because the level of the gas is toxic and endangers humans, people are not allowed within a radius of 500 meters of the crater,” said Dieng observation post head Tunut Pujiraharjo when contacted by The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.

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Tough Winter Forces Owls South in Hunt for Food

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Weather.com-March 15,013-Steve Karnowski

Volunteer Claire Palmer holds a great horned owl, Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at the Raptor Center on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota

 

MINNEAPOLIS -- It's been a tough winter for owls in parts of North America, and the evidence is turning up on roadsides, at bird feeders and at a wildlife rehabilitation center in Minnesota.

Discovered: New Bacteria Buried Underwater in Antarctic

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The Weather Channel Elizabeth Howell, OurAmazingPlanet Published: Mar 8, 2013, 10:58 AM EST

Russia's Vostok Station, in a photograph taken during the 2000 to 2001 field season.

A new type of microbe has been found at a lake buried under Antarctica's thick ice, according to news reports. The find may unveil clues of the surrounding environment in the lake, according to scientists.

The bacteria, said to be only 86 percent similar to other types known to exist on Earth, was discovered in a water sample taken from Lake Vostok, which sits under more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of Antarctic ice. The freshwater lake has likely been buried, unaltered, under the ice for the past million years.

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Big Story Weather – March 14, 2013

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redOrbit March 14, 2013

Daily weather forecast and wrap-up provided by redOrbit meteorologist Joshua Kelly.

 

redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly

 

Big Story Weather from March 13: The storm system finally moved off shore over the Northeast, but it still brought rain showers to places in the Northeast. High pressure over the Southeast brought a cool evening to the South and Gulf Coast. High pressure over the Rockies kept a good portion of the West dry. A weak frontal boundary moved through the Northwest and brought showers to the region.

Thousands of dead fish wash up on Brazilian lagoon

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News Track India IANS Thu, 14 Mar 2013

BRAZIL: Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Up on Lagoon Shore

Rio de Janeiro, March 14 (IANS/EFE) Thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, a Rio de Janeiro tourist attraction, Brazilian authorities said.

A large amount of organic matter that entered the lagoon as a result of two recent large storms consumed oxygen and brought it down to critically low levels, Carlos Alberto Muniz, the municipal environment secretary, told Efe.

This situation caused a massive die-off of shad, whose number had risen since mid-February after the fish had entered the lagoon to spawn, Muniz said.

The government now is working to remove the rotting fish and the strong odour and had collected 12 tonnes of dead shad as of Wednesday, the official said.

 

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