8 million pieces of trash entering the oceans and seas every day

Every day, the seas and oceans are polluted with eight million pieces of junk, according to a study by the OSPAR Commission, an International Convention founded in 1992 to prevent maritime pollution and that counts with the participation of 14 European countries, including Portugal.

According to OSPAR, this number, even grotesque, continues to grow, mainly due to increased use of reusable plastic parts â€" packaging, bags for storing newspapers or plastic film that protects the clothes have come online, for example.

Much of the responsibility of retailers over when your product arrives in stores, but there are companies that cannot stay immobile watching the natural resource which makes them live, the sea, being destroyed day by day. "it's no surprise that some of the brands that are leading this [raising] are linked to the surf," he explained, in a text of opinion published in The GuardianThomas Callan, freelance investigator specializing in environmental and social policies.

Callan refers to Surfers Against Sewage (SAS-opens PDF), which wants a greater responsibility of brands across the supply chain, which enables greater control of pollution that their products can cause and thus keep the healthier oceans.

According to the charge, the EPR (Extended producer responsibility) can have many forms, including innovative products, packaging design, instructions for recycling the product when this ceases to be useful or even financial incentives to recycle.

The Finisterre, which draws durable clothing from certified textiles, uses packaging made from corn being composted with very little non-biodegradable plastic. Although more expensive, the packaging ensures the Finisterra is go against the natural resource that maintains your business profitable.

"If we're going to until the end of the world to get a product to be as responsible as possible, so it makes no sense to wrap it in something that goes against all its purpose", explained to The Guardian Ernie Capbert, director of brand of Finisterre.

Only in the United Kingdom, approximately 350,000 tons of used clothing is sent to the trash every year, as well as their packaging. When drawing clothes lasting several years and include a packing virtually biodegradable, the Finisterre ensures your part in protecting the oceans.

Another of the Coalition marks is the Riz Boardshorte, a surf brand of London which uses 100% recycled and recyclable textiles for their shorts. As the raw material is hard to find, the Riz encourages customers to send the ones you don't use, offering a 25% discount on the purchase of the next couple who said the maketing and sustainability cannot walk hand-in-hand?

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The beauty of a American Ghost Town

The song "After the Gold Rush", one of the biggest hits of Neil Young's career, this is the author's concerns with nature and planet Earth, metaphorical perspective of gold rush-Gold Rush-, which from the mid-19th century led millions of people to migrate to dozens of destinations worldwide, building new cities and civilizations.

One of those destinations â€" probably the most known â€" is the u.s. State of California, which received thousands of workers and their families, building cities that ended up forgotten in time, when the "fever" ended.

One of them is Bodie, Mono County, which grew from 1859 and arrived to have a population of 10,000, until the gold that was holding the place began to run low in the mid-80 of this century. Later, a fire reduced the population to 698, in 1910. From the 60 years of the 20th century, the town was integrated into the State Park.

Today, Bodie is just another of the American ghost towns â€" and there are dozens of them in California-but continues to draw people from all over the world. As the British Cat Burton, author of these photos.

"The most fascinating part of the city is the interior of buildings. After abandoned for so long, I was hoping they were destroyed and empty. Instead, there are various buildings full of furniture, "explained Burton to the Daily Mail.

"If it weren't for the dust until we would think that someone there lived," continued the British, who explained that many of the buildings appeared to have been left behind from one day to the next, as the coroner's Office and the school.

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The Peneda-Gerês National Park is the ninth most valuable tourist destination in the world

The Peneda-Gerês National Park is considered to be the ninth most valuable tourist destination in the world by Trivago search engine that compares prices from more than 700 thousand hotels throughout the world and that, with this list, unveiled the most appreciated with regard to the relationship between quality and price.

According to the ranking, which considers the tourist destinations with added value for every euro spent, the Portuguese Park is also the fourth most valued European destination, behind Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chora (Greece) and Megalo Papigo-(Greece). Overall, the most valued is the fortified town of Ait-Ben-Haddou in Morocco and, moreover, already considered a world heritage site by Unesco.

In the top 100 there are five other Portuguese locations: Peniche (59th place), Barnes (69), Figueira da Foz (73), Vila Nova de Milfontes (86) and Ericeira (95).

See some photos of Minho Park but rather the complete list of the top 10.



2. Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

3. Chora (Greece)

4. Merzouga (Morocco)

5. Bhaktapur (Nepal)

6. Megalo Papigo-(Greece)

7. Sucre (Bolivia)

8. Pingyao (China)

9. Gerês (Portugal)

10. Yangshuo (China)

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Singapore artist uses bicycle tires to paint famous landmarks

Thomas Yang is an artist based in Singapore which creates unique artworks using bicycle tires. Monuments such as the Eiffel Tower, Tower Bridge or the Empire State Building were created through the meticulous placement of tires on a white screen.

"The idea came when I was toying with the idea of how to paint using a bike. The tires were the first that came to mind. Subsequently, explored the characteristics of each pattern of tire and I came to the conclusion that could possibly paint a few known buildings, "says Yang to Bored Panda.

Thomas Yang, which is a bicycle enthusiast, has created four different paintings: "The Cyclist's Empire" (Empire State Building), "God Save the Bike" (Tower Bridge), "Bycicle Mon Amour" (Eiffel Tower) and "The Unforbidden Cyclist" (forbidden city). From each original 100 copies were produced, which were quickly sold.

"The process of creation was actually quite difficult. For each of the works were required at least 40 essays ", explains the artist, who chose only buildings of cities with some culture tied to bicycles. For the creation of the four works were necessary 20 tires and each of the copies come with a special description related to bicycles and a number of editing.

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Artist spent 10 years to carve a cave in the desert

In the last ten years, the American sculptor Ra Paulette devoted himself to carve a cave you found in the wilderness of the State of New Mexico. Only with the company of his faithful dog, the artist used all his free time to decorate the walls of the grotto of sandstone.

Every wall was given a design and different standard, which allows the Grotto qualities and textures quite specific in its various rooms.

The objective of Ra Paulette was to create a space with an environment that could inspire a "spiritual renewal and personal well-being." When the ornamental works are completed, the space will serve as a venue for concerts and exhibitions, referred to Bored Panda.

This particular cave is carved out for ten years and must still be accurate some more until it is completed. However, Ra Paulette sculpts caves for over 25 years, which are usually ordered by several entities. All the work is done only with hand tools and the result of the work of the artist was already filmed a documentary by Jeffrey Karoff.

Here is the result of ten years of work of Ra Paulette.

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Glaciers of Glacier National Park may disappear in 2030

Climate change have unfortunate coincidences. As this, in the United States: the glaciers of Glacier National Park, which give you the name, may disappear in 2030. According to scientists at the USGC (US Geology Center), within 15 years remaining glaciers in the Park, something that had never been placed on the table before.

The glaciers are very visual examples of how the weather is heating up globally, since they are very sensitive to the environment that surrounds them and therefore used to predict long-term climate evolution.

According to Inhabitat, scientists will use this example to try and figure out where the most extreme climate changes occur.

Glacier National Park occupies the Rock Mountains, on the border between Canada and the United States, and it's covered in snow since it was discovered. When was exploited, in 1910, about 150 glaciers occupied space, but everyone must disappear until 2030. Today, just 26 glaciers are found in the Park-124 were lost in just over a century.

See or remember the beauty of the American Park.

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New invention can make seawater drinkable only with solar energy

The world is about to enter a global water crisis, where over a billion people lack access to safe drinking water. To combat the problem, the British company Desolenator has created a device that can turn salt water into drinking water.

The Desolenator device uses a patented technology that can turn salt water and other non-potable sources in distilled water and suitable for consumption. The machine is able to produce 15 liters of water per day and requires only solar energy to purify the water. Additionally, after the purchase, there is no need to purchase other supplies since the machine requires no filters and can provide pure water at home for 20 years.

"Climate change and population growth are creating the stage for a global water crisis", indicates the British company's CEO, William Janssen, cites the Inhabitat. "About 97 percent of the world's water is salty and our plan is to use this vast resource and available to end the global crisis of drinking water. The process is called desalination and, currently, only 0.7% of the water consumed worldwide comes from this process. Existing technology to do so is expensive, inefficient and requires 0.5% of world energy flow. The Desolenator is different from existing technologies. Uses solar energy of an elegant way and maximizes the amount of solar radiation that reaches the surface of technology by combining electrical and thermal exchanges ", explains Janssen.

The device is still in development, but there is already a prototype available. Currently, there is a fundraising campaign but the invention has already been distinguished in a contest.

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