Category: Nature
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Texas child dies from brain-eating amoeba, water testing underway
The death of a 6-year-old boy in southeast Texas has sparked an investigation into the area’s water supply. Josiah McIntyre died on September 8 in Lake Jackson, Texas from an often fatal brain-eating amoeba. Mireya Villarreal reports.
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Brain-eating amoebae are very rare, but warming waters may change that
Scientists are concerned that climate change may be making N. fowleri infections more common. “In theory as the world heats up there will be more surface water at around 30 degrees Celsius [86 degrees Fahrenheit] so there will be more N. fowleri habitat†Maciver wrote. However, many factors, not just water temperature play a role in its occurrence. There’s…
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‘My Octopus Teacher’ Stuns Audiences, Reinforces Power of Nature
In his latest documentary, My Octopus Teacher, free diver and filmmaker Craig Foster tells a unique story about his friendship and bond with an octopus in a kelp forest in Cape Town, South Africa. It’s been labeled “the love story that we need right now” by The Cut. See EcoWatch
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Swimmer Bitten on Head by Crocodile
A swimmer at Lizard Island in Queensland has reportedly been bitten on the head by a saltwater crocodile.
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Watch: Mountain Lion Swims Across Reservoir In Colorado
A mountain lion was spotted swimming across a reservoir in southwestern Colorado last weekend. Katie Johnston reports.
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This Woman is Making a Splash by Helping Dogs Learn to Swim
From the loss of her dog, Sassy, to a rare disease called Degenerative Myelopathy (DM). Alabama local, Sherri Griffin, learned how to help and heal dogs through hydrotherapy.
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Scottish swimmer ‘lucky to be alive’ after jellyfish sting
Libby Bligh had been swimming with a friend near Ardersier in the Highlands on Saturday when she was stung on her hand by a lion’s mane jellyfish. Within a short time she was left severely unwell and struggling to breathe. Her friend drove her to hospital in Inverness where she spent 12 hours receiving treatment.…
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‘Coach Rich’ vows to rebuild aquatic center after Hurricane Sally destroyed it
Rich Suhs was last inside the indoor aquatic center he’s owned for 11 years on Tuesday, checking chlorine levels in the two swimming pools where thousands of young girls and boys first learned how to swim. “I figured we would lose power at some point,†said Suhs, who is affectionately known as “Coach Rich,†and…
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Video shows huge alligator swimming in storm surge after Hurricane Sally hit
Hurricane Sally didn’t just bring massive floods and downed power lines to the Gulf Coast — it also left a few natural dangers in its wake. Tina Bennett, who lives in Gulf Shores, Alabama, shared video with CBS affiliate WKRG of a giant alligator swimming through the waters surging outside her residence after Sally made landfall on Wednesday.…