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Thursday, November 01, 2012

Global Warming is the biggest threat to our survival... ours and all the other animals who depend on the precious balance of Nature.

Please live your day.by.day more aware of your footprints....

Happy 2015/16/17/18... to all of us... all of us.

Our precious blue planet being used as a never ending resource...

We have to act now, each and everyone. We need that balance to survive

Reduce, reuse, recycle and above all... respect!

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Dead Penguins Washing up in Brazil
TIME in partnership with CNN Sunday, Jul. 20, 2008 By AP

(AP / RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil) — Officials say more than 400 dead penguins, most of them young, have been washing up on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches.
While it's common for some birds to get swept up in fast-moving currents off Antarctica and Patagonia, a Brazilian environmental official says there have been more this year than at any time in recent memory.
Rescuers and those who treat penguins are offering several theories.
One veterinarian says overfishing is forcing the birds to swim farther out for food, where they're more likely to be sucked in by strong ocean currents in the Strait of Magellan. He says his zoo has already received about 100 penguins for treatment, and many of them were drenched in oil.
An environmental official says pollution is lowering the animals' immunity, leaving them vulnerable to funguses and bacteria that attack their lungs.
But a biologist says he doesn't believe pollution levels are high enough to affect the birds so quickly and suspects weather patterns could be at fault.