Throughout the year, Sea ice in polar regions enables the production of algae that supports the Arctic food web. The ice offers refuge for migrating seabirds, hunting grounds for seals, polar bears, and other important species, and grazing depots for krill and fish. Increased carbon emissions from Human activity is causing Earth’s atmosphere to warm, melting polar ...
Nature Is Speaking – Water / Die Natur spricht – Wasser / A Natureza está Falando – Agua / La Naturaleza está Hablando – Agua
Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the past century - to the point that now about 1.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water; another 3 billion do not have adequate sanitation. Further, as climate change alters weather patterns, areas such as the Mediterranean region and ...
Nature Is Speaking – Forest / Die Natur spricht – Wald / A Natureza está Falando – Floresta / La Naturaleza está Hablando – Selva
Forests help to provide us the very air we breathe, yet we still cut down Portugal-sized chunks of forest every year. Tropical forests cover less than just 5% of the Earth’s surface, but global deforestation threatens their long-term survival, as well as the survival of the wildlife - and Humans - that rely on them. The ...
Addiction is Pain / Sucht ist Schmerz / Vício é Dor / Adicción es Dolor
Feeling alone, the sense that there has never been anyone with whom to share their deepest emotions, is universal among addicts. All adicts seek in their habit the same paradise; comfort, vitality, and freedom from pain. Addiction is a search that puts health, societal position, dignity, and freedom at risk. I am not afraid of death, I am ...
Things you didn’t Do / Dinge, die Du nicht getan Hast / Coisas que você não Fez / Cosas que no Hiciste
Remember the day I borrowed your brand new car and I dented it? -I thought you'd kill me, but you didn't. -And remember the time I dragged you to the beach, and you said it would rain, and it did? -I thought you'd say, "I told you so." But you didn't. -Do you remember the ...