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End Of Days: Randomly Dead Birds Found In Same Arkansas Town On New Year’s Eve For The Second Year In A Row???

Y’all keep thinking these things mean nothing if you want to… Someone went into a large roost of blackbirds in Beebe, Arkansas, as the clock struck midnight Saturday and set off fireworks, contributing to the deaths of scores of blackbirds, a state wildlife spokeswoman said. Last New Year’s Eve, roughly 5,000 birds were found dead in a square-mile area in Beebe, a central Arkansas town about 35 miles northeast of Little Rock through which birds migrate and that is home to a large roost for the birds. Fireworks last year caused otherwise healthy birds to become disoriented and “fly all over the place” into stationary objects, such as trees and buildings, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokeswoman Ginny Porter said. Those birds’ deaths were likely “not intentional,” Porter added. But questions remain about the intention of the person or persons who set off fireworks that killed about 200 blackbirds this weekend. In light of the fatalities one year earlier, a state wildlife officer and Beebe police officers were patrolling the area mindful of the dangers that fireworks posed to the blackbirds, the wildlife spokesman noted. Even so, 50 birds died when fireworks went off around 7 p.m. Saturday, said Porter, who added, “We don’t know where or who shot them (fireworks).” The majority of the blackbird deaths occurred five hours later at midnight, in a bunch of trees, or roost, in a residential area. “Someone went into the roost and set off fireworks,” the spokeswoman said. ” We didn’t catch them, we don’t know who.” How bout because your explanation sounds suspect as hell! Over in Europe, another dead animal mystery unfolded. AP reported that on Kvaenes beach in Norway, an estimated 20 tons of dead herring washed ashore on New Year’s Eve. And then, the tens of thousands of dead fish vanished. So how are they explaining this one? As for the vanishing herring, it’s suspected that the fish were forced ashore by predators or a large storm. Jens Christian Holst of Norway’s Institute of Marine Research told AP that the fish probably simply washed back into the sea. Yeah. Okay. Sure. Source 1 Source 2 More On Bossip! *Exclusive* Chris Brown’s Girlfriend “Karrueche Tran” Exposed As Crack Slore Doing Chris For A Come Up [Video] Eclectically Fresh: Solange Shows Off Her Boo And Juelzy In New Photoset From The French Countryside More Divorce Drama: Deion Sanders’ Daughter Says Pilar Is A Liar, Divorce Has Been Going On For Months And She’s Been Getting Chopped Down By Young Boys

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End Of Days: Randomly Dead Birds Found In Same Arkansas Town On New Year’s Eve For The Second Year In A Row???

Two huge icebergs let loose off Antarctica’s coast

Mammoth iceberg could alter ocean circulation AFP . SYDNEY – An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg that struck a glacier off Antarctica and dislodged another massive block of ice could lower the levels of oxygen in the world's oceans, Australian and French scientists said Friday. The two icebergs are now drifting together about 62 to 93 miles (100 to 150 kilometers) off Antarctica following the collision on Feb. 12 or 13, said Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Neal Young. “It gave it a pretty big nudge,” Young said of the 60-mile (97-kilometer) -long iceberg that collided with the giant floating Mertz Glacier and shaved off a new iceberg. “They are now floating right next to each other.” The new iceberg is 48 miles (78 kilometers) long and about 24 miles (39 kilometers) wide and holds roughly the equivalent of a fifth of the world's annual total water usage, Young told The Associated Press. Experts are concerned about the effect of the massive displacement of ice on the ice-free water next to the glacier, which is important for ocean currents. This area of water had been kept clear because of the glacier, said Steve Rintoul, a leading climate expert. With part of the glacier gone, the area could fill with sea ice, which would disrupt the ability for the dense and cold water to sink. This sinking water is what spills into ocean basins and feeds the global ocean currents with oxygen, Rintoul explained. As there are only a few areas in the world where this occurs, a slowing of the process would mean less oxygen supplied into the deep currents that feed the oceans. “There may be regions of the world's oceans that lose oxygen, and then of course most of the life there will die,” said Mario Hoppema, chemical oceanographer at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. added by: JanforGore