New climate report has grim predictions
A new report says that much of the world’s plant and animal life could be decimated by the effects of climate change over the next century. Worldwide levels of carbon dioxide are the highest they’ve been in almost two million years.
Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, Amazonia and Australia would lose the most species of plants and animals. And a major loss of plant species is projected in North Africa, Central Asia and South-eastern Europe.
Brutal.
Via Climate Adaptation
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
Thank you, beautiful African mothers, words alone cannot explain the appreciation we have for you.
We are forever grateful.
This is Africa, our Africa
Happy Mother’s Day.
Via We Speak For Earth
The Quantified Month: From Bomb Girls to the Boston Marathon Bombing, here’s a chartified look at what happened in April 2013: natpo.st/10pZI30
Via National Post
“I spent the entire day the building collapsed on the scene, watching as injured garment workers were being rescued from the rubble. I remember the frightened eyes of relatives — I was exhausted both mentally and physically.
“Around 2 a.m., I found a couple embracing each other in the rubble. The lower parts of their bodies were buried under the concrete. The blood from the eyes of the man ran like a tear.
“When I saw the couple, I couldn’t believe it. I felt like I knew them — they felt very close to me. I looked at who they were in their last moments as they stood together and tried to save each other — to save their beloved lives.
“…This photo is haunting me all the time. If the people responsible don’t receive the highest level of punishment, we will see this type of tragedy again. There will be no relief from these horrific feelings. I’ve felt a tremendous pressure and pain over the past two weeks surrounded by dead bodies. As a witness to this cruelty, I feel the urge to share this pain with everyone. That’s why I want this photo to be seen.”
— Photographer TASLIMA AKHTER, on his photo of man and a woman discovered in a final embrace amidst the rubble of a fatal building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh.
Mystery of why fluoride works close to being solved
Fluoride may be preventing all sorts of bacteria from being able to latch onto your teeth.
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