The spokesman for the USDA Wildlife Services, Carol Bannerman announces that “It’s estimated there are at least 4 million of them nationwide, but its impossible to count them all so there may be much more” reports say that this feral pigs cause more than $8 million worth of damage every year

Carol Bannerman added “That amount doesn’t include impact to the natural environment and native species, or to water. One disease humans can get, she said, by coming in contact with the beasts bodily fluids is called swine brucellosis, and is extremely painful.”

History research says that in 1500s Explorers coming from Spain has brought this hogs, after that the boars bred and spread and have chomped their way across the country ever since, devouring crops and small livestock. Texas is said to have the largest population of these feral pigs, for this pigs most prevalent in the South where the climate is most conducive.

Now a shoot on sight order has been ordered to the state that has estimated to have about 6,000 wild swine. This order means that anyone with any type of hunting license can legally kill a feral pig. In July 2011 it will become legal for a person to shoot a hog that comes onto his property as well.

Carol Bannerman announces that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking the problem very seriously saying “Because of the impact it has on everything from agriculture to natural resources and humans’ health and safety, its an extremely important problem”

The Sumatra volcano was sending smoke and dust 1500 meter into the air and spewing out lava last Sunday. The volcano has been rumbling for several days as villagers panicked and eventually evacuated the area. It was around midnight when the volcano started to erupt.

The volcano’s eruption have already caused the death of two person due to breathing problem and heart attack respectively and another two who were injured because of road mishaps.

Tropical Storm Danielle in late Monday afternoon was spotted far out to sea and it was moving west-northwest at about 17 mph and carrying top sustained winds of 75 mph this made Tropical Storm Danielle into a Category 1 hurricane.

The National Hurricane Center announced that Tropical Storm Danielle now Hurricane Danielle is expected to get stronger in the next two days, and may become a major Hurricane with a Category 3 Hurricane Level. The Category 3 or above Hurricane level have tope sustained winds starting at 111 mph and are capable of devastating damage.

Tropical Storm Danielle is heading its course to Bermuda, but it would take several days before Danielle approaches any land.

This is a very great showmanship of hope and determination. The six hour journey towards the summit of Mt. Washington is not that easy, There were several breaks of food and water. The canine companion of Lucy was topper who is a Chihuahua mix who was rescued from Puerto Rico.

The chairman of a House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass announced that “It seems to me that BP’s oil recovery effort comes in on the low effort of what was achievable 21 years ago, during the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.” “In my mind, that is not a passing grade, only 10 percent of the 4.1 million barrels actually having been recovered,”  ”I think we all saw this coming I think it’s important that, even using a 21-year-old grading system, that BP has done a very poor job in cleaning up the Gulf.”

In the hearing to government officials Rep. Ed Markey convened on the state of the BP oil cleanup. Senior scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Bill Lehr has testified that one quarter of the gusher was recovered, burned or skimmed from the beaches or in the Gulf. Another quarter evaporated or degraded, one quarter ended up “dispersed” in the water column and one quarter is still floating around.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that majority of the BP oil spill is now completely gone, 25 percent consists of residual oil that is buried in sediments and sand in the water or along the shoreline. In other reports it was found out that there was an oil plume at least 22 miles long, 3,000 feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico, suggesting that million gallons of oil that leaked from a broken BP well could persist far longer than expected, but its not clear Whether the plume’s existence poses a significant threat to the Gulf ecosystem and sea life.

This sinkhole appeared last sunday in a street intersection of Ciudad de Guatemala. Just looking at the photo gives me vertigo.

A sinkhole is a natural depression caused by the removal of underground soil by water. Usually, it happens when the substrate is formed by limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds or any other rock that is easily eroded by water streams. The process could be slow, but sometimes the land just cracks open without notice. In this case, it happened suddenly, swallowing an entire house. The cause: Massive underground water torrents created by tropical storm Agatha.

Sinkholes’ size ranges from low terrain depressions to hundred of meters. Unlike the similar sinkhole that killed two teens in 2007. At least one local newspaper is reporting one person dead, but the authorities have not confirmed it. Some neighbors claim that a whole three-story building and a house fell into the hole.

The official are still hopeful that the Plum Island will remain as is. And recently, the federal government invested about $50 million into upgrading the facilities.

In a lighter news the BP’S chief operating officer Doug Suttles that the over the weekend the insertion tube to suck out the outgoing oil spill has been settled. The suction power of the tube reached reached 3,000 barrels of crude. But still the crews hope that it will make haste, and the numbers increase in the coming days. The think that aided the fast action was the favorable weather conditions it helped hasten the clean up process.

Despite all this it has still reached the Louisiana Coastline, the oil there is thicker and heavier which has gone worst this past few days even reaching Louisiana Wetlands. BP is making every effort to move their equipment and begin to prepare the first effort to stop the oil flow. The real problem here is time; hope they will be able to stop the leak before all the oil cover up the wetlands of Louisiana.

As Paul Oliver and his fellow researchers observed the little fellow the have found out that this frog belongs to an unknown type of long-nosed frog. Scientist called it “Pinnochio” named after the Walt Disney Puppet “Pinnochio”.

The little fellow is dubbed as “Pinnochio” because when the frog is calling it’s nose points upward and when it’s not that active it deflates.

The Foja Mountain in Indonesia is found in the Western Side of the island of New Guinea and is rarely visited by scientist. So finding unknown species in this island is never that impossible.

The Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off Friday afternoon at Kennedy Space Center its latest is 32 flights since its first voyage in 1985, crew members aboard the Space shuttle Atlantis embarked on their first full day in space for the mission. On Sunday the astronauts aboard Space shuttle Atlantis performed an inspection as routinely done in the orbiter before their rendezvous with the space station.

The purpose of the crew of the Space shuttle Atlantis is to deliver an integrated cargo carrier and a Russian-built mini research module to the station and some batteries for the Space stations truss and dish antenna, along with other replacement parts.