Unbelievable What IS Happening to Sea Turtles

For all of you who have heard about global warming causing the decline in sea turtles. Aha… maybe we have discovered why the sea turtle is becoming extinct; and it is not global warming!

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Norway’s Doomsday Seed Vault Hits 1/2 Million Mark

In November 2008, Forced Green posted an article on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The “Doomsday Seed Vault” lies 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the North Pole, in Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago, quite literally an Arctic island. The vault complex is designed to withstand global warming, earthquakes and even nuclear strikes. A safeguard against wars or natural disasters wiping out food crops around the globe. A master backup to the world’s other 1,400 seed banks, in case their deposits are lost. A wise move especially in the face of such events as the war wiping out seed banks in Iraq and Afghanistan, and another bank in the Philippines was flooded in the wake of a typhoon in 2006.

Days after celebrating its second anniversary, the trust that oversees the seed collection announced on Thursday (March 11), the vault now houses half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds. Since it opened for “deposits” two years ago the facility amassed at least one-third of the world’s crop seeds. Since it opened for “deposits” two years ago the facility amassed at least one-third of the world’s crop seeds (more…)

Sometimes Humor is worth a thousand words

The spoken word is such a barrier at times… no matter what language you speak.

So please watch this video for interesting clarification of my last post. And I promise to get off of the numbers for a little while.

BTW, we are going to rate this a PG-13 !

… as the green world turns!