From Fukushima … to your plate

Des poissons pris dans l'environnement de Fukushima ,montrent un niveau très élevé de radioactivité.
Fish caught in Fukushima environment, show a very high level of radioactivity.

Contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant likely escapes into the sea, said Wednesday the Japanese nuclear monitoring agency. The plant managers have so far denied this problem, which experts fear long.

The Regulatory Authority strongly suspected nuclear leak and urged the company Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) to determine where she could come and limit risks, including the environment and the food chain.

The monitoring agency will convene a committee of experts to look at ways to limit the damage.

TEPCO has again cast doubt on the existence of a leak Wednesday. His spokesman, Noriyuki Imaizumi, defended the company saying that the increased level of cesium in samples collected from wells does not necessarily mean that the contaminated water from the plant flows into the ocean.

The company analyzes and other water suspect that previous increases in the level of cesium have been caused by contaminated dust samples have slipped into the samples.

However, Mr. Imaizumi added that TEPCO is open to preventive measures proposed by the monitoring agency.

The Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima was ravaged in March 2011 by an earthquake and tsunami. She feels for leakage problems of the water used to cool the reactors, slowing decontamination efforts.

Marine biologists have raised the possibility that radioactive water flows continuously into groundwater. Analyzes of fish collected near the plant have demonstrated a high level of radioactivity.

While TEPCO has recorded increases levels of cesium and strontium in the surrounding waters, she says most of the contamination was made at the time of the accident. She claims not to have detected a « significant impact » on the environment.

According to the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, contaminated groundwater are likely to have reached the ocean.

 

 

In the spirit to save the « Planet Earth »

Boudha en communion avec le dieu Nâga : la médiation sur le sens de la Vie.Le conseil entre le monde des humains et celui des Dieux.
Buddha in communion with the god Naga: mediation on the meaning of life.The board between the world of humans and the gods.

 

Environmental degradation poses a major threat to humanity, yet most people seem oblivious to the urgent need to tackle the problem. It remains to be seen whether efforts to create « global awareness » will succeed. Perhaps humans will just wait until the crisis deepens. As the saying goes, « A tear is not shed until a coffin is seen. » The environment is being destroyed for four main reasons:
_ Too many people still believe humans are its masters and can do whatever they want with its natural resources. They deal with it antagonistically, as an underling.

_ The industrial revolution ended the simple agrarian approach that met basic needs at a slow rate and gave nature a chance to heal. It no longer gets the time to regain equilibrium. We cannot now turn back the clock, but if we show concern for the environment and adopt appropriate rates of production and consumption, we can ease the degradation.

_ Humans in the age of capitalism are motivated to consume more and more. They are led to believe that consumption creates happiness. The accepted « wisdom » is that more consumption leads to economic expansion, but this overlooks the fact that more consumption means quicker depletion of natural resources.

In his book « The World without Us », environmentalist Alan Wesiman notes that millions of apes once inhabited the Amazon forests and humans honoured them as their ancestors. The population is now in the hundreds of thousands because people began killing the apes for food, simply because they had nothing else to eat.

When humans start to eat their revered ancestors, is it not the writing on the wall, warning of tragedy for humanity as a whole? What will happen if, one day, no apes are left to hunt? Will the environmental crisis begin hunting down humans?

_The world’s human population is simply too big to conserve natural resources. Considering large-scale food production, this should not add to the problem, but, as Mahatma Gandhi said, « There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need, but not for man’s greed. »

Our problem is that, today, people the world over are devoted to globalisation, capitalism and the kind of marketing that drives greed. Greed now dominates everything, even democracy, once hailed as the politics of the ordinary man – by the people, for the people.

Those who know how to consume with awareness need not consume a lot, but they are far outnumbered by those who consume senselessly and become dreadful hunters and destroyers of natural resources. The US population is a fraction of the world’s tally, but its citizens consume significantly more than those of any other country.

Consumption in response to real need is not a problem. What creates problems is consumption in response to « artificial needs ».

The environmental crisis originates from the crisis in people’s minds. Therefore, the main methods to solve it should start with a revolution of the human mind:

_ The misconception that humans are masters of the environment must be replaced with the understanding that we are merely a part of the environment. Destroying it destroys us.

_ Large-scale manufacturing to feed vast markets should be scaled down so that nature can heal itself enough to accommodate future generations.

_ Consumption in response to greed should be replaced by consumption in response to need. Real need does not derive from advertising or social trends that emphasise glamour. Garments should be used until they are worn out, and food never wasted. We should return to basics and appreciate the true value of everything we consume.

_ Humanity must awaken to the danger of globalisation, this uncontrolled domination through capitalism and senseless consumption. If not, the passenger bus called humanity will inevitably head towards a deep abyss.

The environmental crisis has its origins in human beings’ error-prone minds. « With our thoughts we make the world, » the Lord Buddha said. Our false conceptions have led us to a world of peril. If we begin correcting our course with the « belief » and the « attitude » of humanity, it should lead to real fundamental changes.

V.Vajiramedhi en méditation.
V.Vajiramedhi in meditation.

 

(Source : Many texts of V. Vajiramedhi ,a great boudhist preacher living in Taïland  give me the inspiration  for  this vision ,today)

 

 

 

Conga and Cajamarca, Peru … or the choice between life and death

What is the most important thing between these two groups of choice: life, water and nature or gold, capitalist profit and economic growth dreamed of by the international bankers?

I chose life, water and nature!

While the world’s eyes turned to the events in Turkey and Al Qaeda in Syria or setbacks they fight on behalf of Islam and the New World Order (with the blessing of the CIA), a huge financial scandal ecological prepares to operate in Peru, in the Andes, threatening with Belo Monte, the fragile ecological balance of the entire planet.

 

Une vaste étendue sera touchée!
A vast area will be affected!

Conga no va or hoy or nunca! – Not to Conga, today or tomorrow!
Call Solidarity Committee Cajamarca – Paris
Demonstration in Paris: Saturday, June 8, at 16:00, the Fontaine des Innocents, M º Châtelet-Les Halles, Paris 75003
Are there any plans to denounce the capitalist savagery … Montreal, Ottawa, New York …?

« NEW OFFENSIVE OF GOVERNMENT
MINING AND MULTINATIONAL TO CONGA

 

Une mine à ciel ouvert qui légitimera le pillage des ressources naturelles par le 1% ;et laissera les problèmes environnementaux aux mains du 99%.
An open pit mine that legitimize the plundering of natural resources by 1% and leave the environmental problems in the hands of 99%.


An open pit mine that legitimize the plundering of natural resources by 1% and leave the environmental problems in the hands of 99%.

An open pit mine that legitimize the plundering of natural resources by 1% and leave the environmental problems in the hands of 99%.

One of the largest companies in environmental destruction of the world is currently in Cajamarca in the northern Andes of Peru, where the Conga mining megaproject, which will destroy important water sources in the region comes from be relaunched this month by the government of President Ollanta Humala and transnational mining company Newmont-Buenaventura-Yanacocha.
This decision is very serious because, in addition to the environmental disaster it involves and implies in the future, it can result in immediate, like was the case in the recent past, with tragic human consequences.
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The government of Lima gave the « green light » to impose Conga megaproject that was officially « suspended » to the resistance of the population. The effects of the announcement of the government and the mining company are not expected. On May 28, nearly 1,500 « comuneros » Guardians of Lakes and other representatives of the people who walk in the mountain to inspect the recovery work, were violently repressed by the police, who did not hesitate to shoot them. This time the victim was the farmer José Guillermo Huaman Cueva, wounded by a shot with buckshot. A year ago, the shooting of the police and the army killed five people and injured fifty, and to Celendín Bambamarca.

 

Conga affrontement
Conga clash
It is clear that, after two years of peaceful resistance of the people of Cajamarca, President Humala and the mining company have decided to no longer respect or principles or forms and impose the Conga project by force.
To achieve this sudden shift in power, the government of Lima has just adopted new rules that change the laws and unrestricted open doors to multinationals, allowing them to circumvent the rules of environmental protection and heritage conservation Archaeological and make fun of the right to health, life and self-determination of the affected population.
We call on all social organizations, trade unions and political in France and Europe to speak out against this very serious crime against humanity, because even if it occurs in a remote area of ​​the Peruvian Andes, its consequences are still global. Indeed, the destruction and contamination of water sources Conga will affect the Amazon basin and the rivers flowing into the Pacific Ocean. Ultimately, not only the people of northern Peru will pay the consequences of the current wild Extractivism. France and the world are concerned.
Conga event August 21, 2012

Conga manifestation 21 08 2012

• For self-defense, water, health and life facing the open pit and leaching, destructive technology employed by Newmont to extract gold in Cajamarca, Peru.
• To respect the decision of the people of Cajamarca, who spoke to 78% against the imposition of the Conga project, and respect their right to determine its own development strategy and its own vision of the future .
• In Memory of César Medina Aguilar, Joselito Vásquez Jambo, José Antonio Sánchez Huaman, Paulino José Eleuterio García Rojas, José Faustino Sánchez Silva, five people were killed in July 2012 by the firing of the troops in cities and Celendín Bambamarca and for the prosecution and punishment of those responsible for these murders.
• In Defense of El Perol and threatened other lakes in the region.

https://www.facebook.com/paroles.indiennes

**PETITION OFFICIELLE FORCA E CORAGEM:
STOP AUX MASSACRES DES PEUPLES D’AMAZONIE
http://www.avaaz.org/fr/petition/STOP_AUX_MASSACRES_DES_PEUPLES_INDIGENES_DAMAZONIE_petition_officielle_Forca_e_Coragem/

**PETITION OFFICIELLE EUROPÉENNE:
STOP A L’EXPULSION DU PEUPLE GUARANI-KAIOWA DE SES TERRES:
http://www.petitions24.net/forca-e-coragem-petition-contre-expulsion-peuple-d-amazonie

**POUR LA DÉFORESTATION ZÉRO:
http://ligadasflorestas.com.br/

** NON AU BARRAGE DE BELO MONTE:
http://www.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Petition_Mondiale_contre_le_barrage_de_Belo_Monte_en_Amazonie/?cAUFybb

** NON A TOUT PERMIS D’EXPLOITATION AURIFERE DANS UN PERIMETRE DE 10 KMS AUTOUR DU VILLAGE DE SAÜL. ( Guyane ):
http://www.mesopinions.com/petition/politique/permis-exploitation-aurifere-perimetre-10-kms/9481

** SAUVONS LES DERNIERS AMÉRINDIENS WAYANA ET TEKO DE GUYANE FRANÇAISE:
http://www.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Sauver_les_derniers_Amindiens_Wayana_et_Teko_de_Guyane_francaise/?choBcdb

** PETITION D’Envol Vert « LE CUIR TANNE LA FORET »
http://www.change.org/LeCuirTanneLaForet?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=url_share&utm_campaign=url_share_before_sign

 

conga grenouille

(Sources:  Forca é coragem!!!)

An island in the ocean, the Earth in the universe

L'humain de la Terre face à l'Univers
Which position for the Human Being face to the Universe?

The great feature of an island is its geographical  isolation .View from  the sky, we see « cut off from the world. » Our maps or our terrestrial globe we show as a small dot in the blue ocean. For its inhabitants, this small point is equally fondamental.Important for people who dream to expand on its beaches.

Our land is extremely isolated in infinite cosmos.View from outside our solar system, we do not even see: more noticeable Saturn and Jupiter the Sun itself.The pictures taken from the moon we show all blue in space, away from all the other planets.

Vision touching this little blue planet carrier of life,is precious.De endearing and makes our days, we can easily go from one island to the other, even distant from one continent to another and vice versa.

Only a few people were able to travel (? … True or false!) In the space to the moon and back!

Interstellar travel is still imaginary, although short trips to the ISS have trivialized the information and that the « wonder » of my youth fades gradually! A mission to Mars would require some travel hundreds of millions of miles … It is not for tomorrow, the great adventure already so romanticized by Hollywood!

All the islands of the Earth are greatly threatened by the immediate consequences of global warming and the ultimate climat.It is insured  this will provocate a rapid rise in sea level and all oceans.Menaced, they are irremediably because their altitude is low.The  tourist beaches will be submerged, and places highly prized, will disapear forever in the eyes of  the futur humanity .The  inhabitants of some islands are already back on the farthest points or emigrate.

Continents of the world have their threatened coastline, each being a huge island … finally Similarly the Earth is a very small island, directly threatened by even the smallest of the big wave turbulence driven by the spatial motion of our galaxy: the Milky Way!

Earth in Danger-awakening of Yellowstone

Yes my friendsThe Yellowstone caldeira...view from the webcam on  the top of the  mount Washburn, all of our North American civilization, even our Western civilization is not only threatened, but will perish with certainty.

 

I did a lot of personal research on the famous giant volcano Yellowstone and I can not help but reflect on the sudden changes observed recently by scientists from the University of Utah. The news is alarming and we are simply reconsider the meaning of our life, our daily habits and our relationship with nature and … the entire cosmos.

Currently, all humans living in North America is too busy with work, capitalist greed and equipment and their daily routine to really worry about the dangers that threaten us all …!

Numerous studies have established links between solar activity and earthquakes on Earth … or similar eruptions volcaniques.Si the solar maximum of 2012 surprises us by his power, if a major solar storm shakes us with a very very intensive, we will be in trouble. Solar activity when intense, increasing the number and intensity of earthquakes on the planet, eventually producing plates and rearrangements in the evolution of the crust towards the core of the Earth. It is a chain reaction that will undoubtedly awaken many sleeping giants.

But what if there is a super volcano, which is already showing signs of activity?

The super volcano near Yellowstone National Park in the western United States shows signs of activity « explosive » that could eliminate up to two thirds of the United States.

The ground is inflated by 20 centimeters over the past three years (since 2009), a record.Une supervolcano eruption once activated, two-thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable.

During the last two weeks (since the beginning of October 2012), more than 100 small earthquakes of moderate intensity per day, on average, have shaken the region of Yellowstone National Park, putting scientists who monitor the park’s geology state of alert.

If the volcano erupt …

A force a thousand times more powerful than the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, a deadly cloud of ash, erase all living things by creating a layer of 3 meters within 1500 miles.

Limitation of the great caldeira of Yellowstone supervolcano.

Two thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable by simply sweeping winds toxic air, and millions of people were forced to leave their homes.

The caldera of Yellowstone National Park erupted three times in the last 2.1 million years. A trend in recent years has alerted the experts who closely follow the evolution of the volcano.

The super-volcano underneath the Wyoming park has increased its activity at a record rate since 2004. Its soil inflated at a rate of 7.5 centimeters per year over the past three years, the fastest pace since records began in 1923.

In the absence of other data, scientists are reluctant to give a warning and set a date for a hypothetical eruption.

An eruption of this volcano would far exceed the effect of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which erupted in April last year, causing travel chaos around the world.

The expert in Yellowstone volcanism and professor of geophysics at the University of Utah, Robert Bob Smith, told National Geographic:

« This is an extraordinary scientific development because it covers a vast area and research costs are so high, that at the beginning we were concerned that this could lead to an eruption. »

In 2004, Rob Smith wrote:

« When we saw the magma was at a depth of ten kilometers, we feel more relieved. If it had been at depths of two or three kilometers, then the story would be different. »

In 2012, with more efficient equipment and budgets, the great reservoir of magma was spotted six kilometers from the surface … and the thickness of the crust is very thin below Yelklowstone Park.

We are therefore faced with a sort of countdown to the whims of the cosmos itself.

Here’s why:

The consequences of the eruption of a supervolcano on Earth Humans

Toba, 74,000 years ago

 

The super-eruption of Toba (Indonesia today) occurred 74,000 years here gave birth to a lake in the caldera measuring 100 km long and 60 km wide. In short, it was a colossal explosion whose ashes were scattered over thousands of miles away.

Scientists are only beginning to understand the effects of the release of much volcanic ash in the atmosphere of the planet.

If we analyze geological samples found around the world on the ocean floor, and now carefully preserved at the American University of Columbia, you can find out what happened to the days when Toba erupted.

Professor Michael Rampino of New York University and studied the samples concludes
today that the size of the eruption of Toba was huge. We are talking about 3000 km3 of material that was ejected from the volcano. This represents approximately 10,000 times the size of the eruption of St. Helens in 1980 is considered one of the largest eruptions to this day.

The energy released by the great Toba eruption was equivalent to 1 GT of TNT, or about 67,000 times the Hiroshima bomb. This is a VEI August 10 times more intense than the minimum, producing effects similar to that of an asteroid at least 800 m in diameter on a granitic soil.

A 2500 km from Toba retouve on the ocean floor in a layer of ash 35 cm thick which was deposited immediately after the eruption. It reveals that Toba caused a super volcanic event of a power far greater than all other volcanoes known until today.

The ash analysis revealed that the eruption was rich in sulfur and have released a huge amount of sulfur dioxide and other gases into the stratosphere, where they are fallen aerosol acid compounds sulfuric affecting the Earth’s climate over the years.

June 12, 1991, eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines caused a decrease to 0 .5 degree Celsius global scale.

june 12,1991,the eruption of the mount Pinatubo,in Philippinas.

Following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, we know that the ashes transported to the stratosphere, over 18 km altitude at that latitude, have obscured the sunlight and caused a cooling of the climate scale World. The year after the eruption, we indeed witnessed a drop in average global temperature of 0.5 ° C.

By comparing the amount of material ejected by Pinatubo but also St.Helens (IEV 5), Krakatoa (IEV 6) and Tambora (IEV 7), Rampino assessed the temperature drop caused by Toba at 5 ° C. .

On the scale of global climate, a drop of 5 ° C is a global winter. High latitudes (50-70 °) this is a cool 15 ° C during the summer months: Europe supporting 30 ° C as 40 ° C in summer would fall snow in July, there would be a volcanic winter. Effects on agriculture, the growth of plants and ocean life would be catastrophic. This winter time when England, Scandinavia and Canada will experience a polar climate is expected to continue for years with a fatal blow to many living beings, animals and plants.

But what would be the impact on humans? The answer is unfortunately not in the rocks. We can get an idea if we go back to the time when Neanderthal man had to face the coldest 75,000 years ago, during the Würm glaciation that lasted more than 20,000 years. But these are indirect evidence (rock shelters, animal skins and some other utensils coarse).

You can learn more if we stay in Canada, the Scandinavian countries and Central Asia in winter is about the climate of Western Europe would have to bear during a volcanic winter, but with much smaller resources and knowing that these climatic and economic conditions harsh last throughout the year. When I spoke in a cold sweat, this time it is much more concrete …

Mitochondria help anthropologists

Having learned that ecological disruption, two professors specializing in human genetics at the University of Utah, Lynn Jorde, a geneticist at the School of Medicine and Henry Harpending, an anthropologist, has linked this event to the issue of genetic evolution Mitochondria , one of the oldest organizations today and fully integrated human biology.

By analyzing the mutation rate of mitochondrial DNA in ages, Harpending and Jorde noticed a strange phenomenon emerged from their results. It is expected to observe a relatively constant population size, with local peaks of growth and periods of stagnation or even decline, including mixtures of population. But they observed that the human population had decreased to frankly some time.

This observation confirmed that other geneticists thought already. It has long wondered why humanity today presented a genetic variant containing so little when he was so rich to begin with? Phenomenon which might well have been the cause of this trend down? There is indeed all human societies today, whether they live in Africa, Europe, Asia and America have virtually the same genetic heritage so that within a hundred thousand years we should get genetic diversity is much more abundant genetic combinations. What could be the cause?

The answer is that there was a dramatic decrease in population somewhere in the past. Scientists event there are less than 100,000 years: a bottleneck occurred for reasons that remain to be discovered.

The human DNA is so similar across populations today that scientists have concluded that there was certainly a catastrophic reduction in population in the past. How imagine it?

Harpending take the example of the current population is about 6 billion people. The event happened corresponds to almost total extinction where only a few thousand survived. In fact our species was on the verge of extinction.

But a corollary it speaks also to our evolution. In an extraordinary diversity prior to the eruption, our ancestors would have gone through a bottleneck which would explain the poverty of our genetic heritage today and fragility. Concretely, this means that we all descend from the same family.

According to Lynn Jorde, mitochondrial mutations are carried out with great regularity and the number of mutations can serve as a genetic clock to date the major events. In the case of our throttling Harpending and Jorde felt that occurred here 70 or 80 thousand years.

Remains to be seen how this event has caused major mortality which left on Earth that 5 or 10 thousand survivors?

Until now, geneticists had no idea what could have caused this accident. Henry Harpending began a lecture series in American universities to discuss this « bottleneck ». It was on this occasion he was invited by prof. Stanley Ambrose, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Illinois to give a lecture to his students.

It is by reading the history of the human population bottlenecks and asking that she might be the cause Ambrose found the explanation. He communicated his idea to immediately Harpending who read his message a week later. Ambrose spoke of the great eruption of a volcano called Toba in Sumatra …

As we have said, the research team went on the assumption that the strangulation occurred between 70 and 80 thousand years, although this date is still widely debated. The super volcano Toba erupted 74,000 years here, right in the middle of this period. The super-eruption of Toba would have led to the extinction of most human beings.

Remember that at this time the man had already conquered most of submerged lands in Africa, Europe, America and Asia, and this year 500,000 people were already several million people. Before the explosion is believed that hundreds of species of hominids branched and more or less affiliated lived on Earth. After the explosion a single species would have survived, which led to Homo sapiens.

If the two events are connected vraiments, this has implications on the future terrifying eruption of Yellowstone. Its eruption could be of the same magnitude as that of Toba and have a devastating effect, not only on the surrounding region, but all over the Earth.

Scenario Yellowstone super eruption

Michael Rampino, the Yellowstone super eruption was between 1000 and 2500 times more powerful than Mount St. Helens, a power that Yellowstone has implemented in the past.

Imagine over 1000 volcanoes like Pinatubo or St.Helens erupted simultaneously entering … The explosion release into the atmosphere between 1000 and 2500 km3 of ash and volcanic material. Incandescent magma blocks of several cubic meters fall on the ground at supersonic speed. In a few minutes hundreds of thousands if not millions of people will die in the United States instantly incinerated, pulverized. Large fertile plains are covered with ash.

If this happens in winter ashes mingle with the snow to form streams of mud, even more devastating lahars because of their high density and their higher inertia. In a few days the ash cloud will reach the Gulf of Mexico.

The transport of the blast in the upper atmosphere billions of billions of tons of ash, dust and sulfur dioxide which gradually darken the sunlight.

On the las eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano,the 2/3 of the United States land was recover by  a high amount of ashes (some places had  2 meters).

Extension of the two previous eruptions of Yellowstone. 2/3 of the United State are affected. This could he reproduce? Scientists think. Prepared by Dan Brennan and Mary Diman / UW-Madison News Graphics, translated and adapted by the author. All rights reserved.

The climate will be altered on a global scale in the space of a few months. We will undergo continuous volcanic winter will last several years. Crops will be destroyed for several seasons even for several years, and especially wheat reserves of the United States who are now the breadbasket of the entire planet.

The economic crisis is catastrophic and it will probably a generation or two to see life reborn, half a century during which deprivation of life will be extremely painful for everyone!

The pessimists predict that this event will be fatal for humanity because there will be no resources available with all the excesses that this social cause. If this theory seems to be confirmed by the events of the past, some scientists oppose this conclusion deemed too Ardie. For our survival, hope they are right.

If this theory is correct, and it seems subsequently confirmed by several separate events, we can better understand why scientists had cold sweats when they learned that was not only a Yellowstone super volcano, but he was ready to wake up … A story that could lead to the 6th extinction, that of humanity … and a very high percentage of other forms of life on Earth.

Given the state of the planet after the disaster, it might be better if we disappeared in the eruption, because I’d rather keep the memory of green grass and blue sky punctuated here and there, cumulus beautiful time rather than see dry grass, dead trees gnawed by sulfuric acid, a gray sky out of sight and have to live the rest of my life in the cold and artificial lights! … But let us hope, the earth has already experienced such disasters and man has always maintained its survival instinct.

Also, as Defender of the Earth, I propose ways to ensure a minimum of people can continue the extraordinary adventure of Humanity … on Earth or in outer space!

By joining together in abolishing war, trying to change the vision of humans on Earth, we will succeed in the future, despite the disasters that threaten us, to realize that we have failed in the past or live united in the harmony of all our communion with ecosystems

all life forms who share our beautiful blue planet … Earth … Gaia!

 

by Michel Duchaine ,

founder of the Defenders of the Earth

Truthseeker and Truthteller

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Catfish tropical species to save more than forecast

Published in the journal Nature, a British study shows that in communities catfish apparently identical rivers of tropical America, is hiding in various species. It highlights the mimicry, but also the fragile biodiversity in these species face the pressures of human activities in the region. In each river in South America where it was thought out a certain species of catfish of the genus Corydoras, in fact hides a large number of different species of this group have adopted during evolution , shapes and colors the same, finding there may be a mutual benefit. This was discovered by researchers at the University of Bangor (Wales). Biodiversity unexpected challenge that needs preservation measures, these fish have different needs, despite their striking resemblance. « Although these fish are apparently identical, our in-depth assessments of their genetic relationships, their diet, their morphology and colors, revealed that 92% of the communities we sampled include species that do not compete for resources, « said Markos Alexandrou, PhD student at the university. « In addition to biodiversity and little known interesting evolutionary system revealed by this study, this reinforces the urgent need to conserve and manage ecosystems in South America to avoid the loss of several species on the verge of being discovered and described « Complete Claudio Oliveira, the Brazilian agency .

Prelude to the 6 th massive extinction!

Blobs of jellyfish hit Spain beaches:by millions!

MADRID (AP) – A vast flotilla of small, virtually undetectable jellyfish have stung hundreds of people on Spanish beaches this week — a swimmer’s nightmare that biologists say will become increasingly common due to climate change and overfishing.

The blobs attacked three areas near the eastern city of Elche along a famed stretch of white sand beaches known as the Costa Blanca. On Tuesday alone, 380 people were stung, compared to the usual four or five swimmers a day, said Juan Carlos Castellanos of the Elche city tourism department.

There was no sign of the jellyfish on Wednesday, but since Sunday at least 700 people have been stung.

“In the five or six years I have been in this job, I have never seen anything like this,” Castellanos said.

The beaches were never closed but officials put up warning signs and stationed lookout boats offshore.

The tourism official blamed strong currents for sweeping the jellyfish onto the beaches and then calm seas for letting them hang around for three days. Particularly warm waters — which jellyfish like — also helped boost their numbers during Spain’s key summer tourism season.

One problem was these jellyfish were small and almost transparent were not readily visible and thinly spread out over five kilometers (3 miles) of coastline.

“The swimmers could probably not even see them,” Castellanos added

Far to the north, a much more menacing species looms — the Portuguese Man-of-War, a floating, violet-colored sack with meters-long tentacles. They have stung more than 300 people over the past three weeks in Atlantic waters off Spain’s northern coasts of Cantabria and the Basque region, officials said.

Spanish marine biologists say, in general, they are seeing fewer jellyfish this summer than in other years. In the Catalonia region and the Balearic islands — both hugely popular with British and German tourists — officials said this summer has been relatively quiet on the jellyfish front.