Iceberg with 660 square miles exude of Antarctica

Scientists are monitoring an iceberg almost six times bigger than Manhattan, which snapped in Antarctica and follows now into the ocean. This is one of the largest icebergs.

Second explained last glaciologist Kelly Brunt, NASA, Reuters, the iceberg covers about 660 square kilometers and has a thickness of 500 meters. Known as B31, the iceberg broke away in November of the Pine Island glacier, in Antarctica

"It's one of those that is so large that it needs to be monitored," explained Brunt told Reuters. According to the scientist, the u.s. Government monitors about 12 icebergs per day.

Scientists are especially interested in the B31 for two reasons: the size and its location in the Southern Ocean. "It's a great piece of cake floating in the Antarctic Ocean," he explained.

The breaking of the glacier that originated this iceberg has been detected in 2011. This glacier has been studied closely in the last 20 years, incidentally, because it's getting thinner at a speed very fast, and can be an important contributor to sea level rise.

"We're doing some research on local ocean currents and trying to explain the movement [of the iceberg]. Surprisingly, there are times when he's practically stop, and other begins to float at high speed, "explained Reuters Researcher Grant Bigg, University of Sheffield, England.

According to scientists, however, the iceberg is not endangering any ship. "There's not much maritime traffic down there," concluded Kelly Brunt.

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Ollie, the dog who thinks he's human

Ollie, a weimaraner two years, doesn't have a dog's life. He reached the British press due to its day-to-day human: sharing an ice cream cone with his companions-these Yes, humans-, asleep in bed next to them or taking a shower.

With 1.2 meters and 40 pounds, he has a little careful feeding: eat cereal and drink tea. "Take a walk with him every day. When we return, he goes straight for the shower. It's not a dog, it's more a human ", explains one of the owners, Eliot Alexander, of 38 years.

But Ollie has other singularities. Is "crazy" when you hear the ice cream truck pass by the door, bypassing several children on the run to the place. Ollie eats ice cream so much that even their owners have to pay for it in advance.

Due to their independent lifestyle, the companions of the weimaraner have you considered putting him a driver around the neck. "He appropriated the House and don't have ways of being", jokes the owners of Ollie, who also have two cats.

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China wants to ban the dietary consumption of endangered species

China has approved a draft law to punish the dietary consumption of endangered species, with the aim of reducing poaching in the country. The law provides for imprisonment for those who ask for dishes that are prepared with protected species or for those who try to buy the meat of these animals for cooking.

Although hunting of endangered species is already illegal in China, this new law is intended to cover the high demand for the meat of these animals and to punish consumers who knowingly to consume or buy. Depending on the failure, prison sentences ranging between three to ten years, referred to the Dodo.

"This is the first time that concrete measures are proposed to prohibit the consumption of endangered species. In some parts of China the consumption of these animals is a tradition with many centuries ", writes the China Daily.

The list published by the Chinese Government are part 420 species of animals, which cannot now be hunted down, killed, sold or consumed. Among the most iconic species on the list belong to the pandas, Golden monkeys, the Asian black bears and pangolins. The proposal should be examined and voted on this week.

Here are some pictures of the most mammal Ding-a-Ling trafficked in the world.

Fotos: Marc Eschenlohr/PLeia2/Toro Mojado/Creative Commons/Wikimedia Commons

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Environmental Defense associations distinguish Carla Castle and Carlos Pimenta (with video)

Today, instead of Messenger, the green economy is notice. Or rather, the program coordinator and SIC journalist Carla Castle, which received yesterday the National Environmental Award, awarded by the Portuguese Confederation of associations of environmental protection (CPADA).

"Unlike the environmental activists, it's my job, to inform journalistic. But I think it's a fundamental work to raise awareness of this issue and for your connection to quality of life, "said Carla Castelo in Mãe D ' Água, Amoreiras, where took place the event.

In the same ceremony, the former ruler Pimenta received from the Minister of the environment, spatial planning and energy, Jorge Moreira da Silva, the Career Award. "We have a moral obligation to take care of the heritage that we have inherited, which is our Earth. We have an obligation to those who will succeed us, "explained Carlos Pimenta.

The CPADA awards are awarded since 1999 and, this year, gave an honorable mention to the draft keg and photographers Louis Fifth and Ricardo Warrior.

The National Environment Award is named after Fernando Pereira, one of the martyrs of the environmental cause who was killed aboard the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace vessel that was trying to stop nuclear testing at Muroroa atoll in the Pacific.

In previous years, the national prize of environment was assigned to the EPAL (Empresa Portuguesa das Águas Livres) Diário de Notícias, Arq. Ribeiro Teles, SEPNA â€" Special Service of protection of nature and Environment of the GNR, the journalist Pedro Almeida Vieira, the lawyer José Sá Fernandes, the magistrate and Prosecutor Helena Cluny, Cine Eco Jose Maria Saraiva, Sociedade de Advogados Miranda Correia Amendoeira and Associates, John Lawrence, the secondary school of Barcelos, José Carlos Marques, the Editors Always standing, and the Television Program biosphere.

The prize is intended to distinguish the person, institution or company that year, stood out in their activity as "environmentally friendly".

Released in February 2013, the green economy is the result of a partnership between the SIC Notícias, Green Savers and the Green Project Awards. All episodes can be seen on our page of Megavideo and the site.

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Joke can take American city empty reservoir with 143 million gallons of water

At a time when drought proliferates by several u.s. States, the city of Portland, Oregon, are studying the emptying of a reservoir with 143 million gallons of water.

This thread is recurring in the United States, and the reason is usually the same: someone peed to the tank, which is filled with treated water.

The cameras recorded the action of the 19-year-old boy, at the beginning the morning of Wednesday, April 16 â€" a week ago. Because of the joke, the authorities are doing tests of water quality and one of the possibilities is to empty the reservoir.

In an interview with Associated Press Agency, the spokeswoman for the local water company said that the urine presents little risk, and that animals routinely deposit waste in the tank without creating a public health crisis. The problem is that, now, the company does not want to serve water that was deliberately contaminated.

"I may be wrong about this, but the reality is that our clients will receive drinking water that has been contaminated by someone who decided to pee in the tank," explained David Shaff.

If the disposal occurs, the water will drain to the sewer system that eventually, and after treatment, is dumped on the Columbia River.

Click here to see the video, released by the Associated Press.

Foto: Tom Topped/Creative Commons

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Brazilian environmentalist movement wants to promote world day of the Environmentalist to June 4

The environmental movement the Greens, a member of the International Environmentalist Federation (FAI), launched a petition to ask the United Nations establishing the day 4 June as world day of Environmentalist.

"[We want], in all nations where the defenders of the Environment Act, of animals and of human life, is celebrated the date for reflection and support for environmental causes, in defence of planet Earth," says the petition.

The objective of the environmental movement is reaching the 5,000 signatures. If you agree with this action, you can subscribe to it here.

On 5 June, recalled, the United Nations celebrated the world environment day.

Foto: aloshbennett/Creative Commons

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Exhibition on packaging reuse kicks off Thursday at NorteShopping

The NorteShopping receives, on 24 April, about 40 pieces of art â€" hearts constructed from reusing cartons for liquid foods â€" which were developed within the framework of a school contest sponsored by Tetra Pak, in collaboration with the ABAE-blue flag Association of Europe and the network of Eco-schools.

The exhibition, open to the public in the square 0 floor industry, combines environmental awareness to children's art, arousing us more new the ability to reuse the packaging used in the creation of original parts which, by its high originality, led to Tetra Pak to consider their public display, by selecting for effect more than four dozens of the best works that will be featured now at NorteShopping.

The show makes known the works that were up for tender in the initiative "on mother's day, the heart is Yellow" and whose motto of the hobby took students of Eco-schools around the country to create hearts, from cartons for liquid foods, combining the theme of mother's day the preservation of "mother nature".

Parallel to the exhibition, visitors can also participate, Norteshopping on 25 April and on weekends (from 10:00 to 11:00 pm), in the workshops of construction of useful objects from Tetra Pak cartons, through which you can prepare the gift to give on mother's day, for example, or take a photo against a backdrop drawn, from the theme of the exhibition, and they can take with them at the moment.

Learn more about the exhibition at Protects What's good.

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