Oceans and the Great Dying
The world may end but the sun yet will shine and the stars yet will twinkle in the night sky and the moon wax and wane. And many creatures, the fittest amongst us, the insects mostly and the vermin, that survived even the Great Dying, may survive yet again. But it won’t be the iridescent corals and it won’t certainly be us.
Treasures Of The Sea. Watamu, Kenya
When you think of Africa you seldom think beyond the ‘Big Five’. Africa as the place of pristine soft sand beaches and turquoise waters that hides incredible marine life, or Africa as a place of our origin with evolutionary links dating back to 17 millions years, is lost in the mad touristy ticking –the- animals-off-the-list game.
In Africa, the spectacular terrestrial creatures overwhelm the senses completely and anything else on the continent is just a bonus.
Maldives: A Paradise on the Brink
If the global temperature keep rising, this paradise would be lost forever. Maldives is the lowest lying country in the world (the average height is 1.8 meters above sea level). Scientists estimate that melting polar ice caps could raise the ocean level by about 2 meters by the end of this century. This would swallow Maldives whole making its inhabitants the world’s first environment refugees.