Omnibyte

Issik Kul is a remote deep-water lake located in the northern Tian Shan Mountains, in the Transiliysk
Ala Tau area of Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia). The name means “warm water”; the lake is surrounded by snow-capped peaks but it never freezes.
According to a well-informed Ukrainian writer V. Krapiva, in the late 1930s a Russian researcher of the [...]

Little penguins are dying in their hundreds, leading conservationists to fear they are starving as a result of the La Nina weather system.
Other seabirds are washing up dead on beaches, raising concerns that species could become extinct if climate change causes extreme weather events to become more frequent.
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The Julian calendar, named and established by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, structured the calendar year in 365 days and the added a day every 4 years (leap year), in order to compensate for the lack of balance of almost 6 hours between the calendar year and the solar one; on the basis of that [...]

I’ve been checking out the (minor) earthquakes in the region (Central Europe) for the past few days and came across this dated article. This news story is dated April 10, 2009 (2 years ago). I include it here because of the way people described this event, pretty wild…
Hundreds of Carinthians were left terrified [...]

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Sempronius buffalo farmer Peter Head has lost 55 animals to a mysterious illness since October, but autopsies have shown no clear cause of death.
“We’re going nuts down here trying to figure out what’s going on,” he said. “This is going to put me out of business. That’s half my frickin’ herd.”
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So sad… poor creatures and, it doesn’t seem to be ending.
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With all the horror stories this past month concerning our feathered and scaly friends I thought these links would give another, lighter perspective.
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