Thousands of people, both citizens and tourists have died because of an earthquake that hit the coasts of the Indonesian Island “Sumatra” resulting in very powerful Tsunamis that hit not only Indonesia but also India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other neighboring countries. The earthquake is considered the strongest to take place in 40 years.

Besides the huge number of deaths, the Tsunamis left thousands dangerously injured and caused hundreds of thousands to lose their homes.
Many people are missing. And efforts are still eager to save the ones left to be saved and find the many reported missing people.
Other than the loss in souls and property, disease has a big chance of spreading!

The news broke so many hearts, those who lost loved ones and those who simply felt the size of this natural disaster. Many “after shots” are expected, mostly somehow as strong as the first. More tsunamis are also likely to form, but not as high and strong as the first ones… hopefully.

Let’s all pray things wont get worse, and the situation will remain under control.

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“Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? “Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.” ~The Washington Post

A mystery disease is killing off yellow-eyed penguin chicks in New Zealand in a fresh blow to efforts to conserve the world’s rarest member of the penguin family, a conservation group said on Thursday. The disease killed up to 80 percent of this spring’s chick’s in the worst affected areas on New Zealand’s South Island.

“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river”. ~Ross Perot

At least 80 whales and dolphins have died after beaching themselves on a remote island between the Australian mainland and the country’s island state of Tasmania.
It’s still unknown why the animals beached themselves. The deaths come a year after 100 pilot whales died on a remote beach on the southwest coast of Tasmania.

Via: 4eco.com
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Via: 4eco.com

Via: 4eco.com

We are consuming about 20% more natural resources than the planet can produce, WWF International has warned. “We are spending nature’s capital faster than it can regenerate,” WWF’s director general Claude Martin said following the launch of its “Living Planet” report. “We are running up an ecological debt which we won’t be able to pay off unless governments restore the balance between our consumption of natural resources and the earth’s ability to renew them,” he said. Each person occupies an “ecological footprint” equivalent to 2.2 hectares in terms of their capacity to pollute or consume energy and other resources including food. But the planet can only offer them 1.8 hectares each, the 2004 report said.
The country with the largest overall footprint in 2001 was the United Arab Emirates, with just below 10 hectares per person, mainly due to energy consumption that accounted for more than 70% of that. It was followed by the U.S. and Kuwait. Australia was the fourth largest burden on the world’s resources, followed by Sweden and Finland. The two Nordic countries have relatively low energy consumption, But they have the highest demand for “food and fibre” mainly due to the timber industry’s use of their forests. More Information.
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