What’s worse than a Tsunami?

The Nargis cyclone in Burma!!!

The number of victims keeps rising with 22.500 dead so far and who knows how many more? The State Department’s Minister of the country reported that 41.000 people are missing and that victims must be more by far, since census hasn’t yet taken place in certain villages that have been influenced the most by the cyclone.

The humanistic organization Save the Children evaluated that victims could be up to 50.000. The organization has shown its concern by acquiring 500 employees in Burma to offer food and other products to 30.000 citizens of the five areas with the greatest disasters.

National assistance for the victims is more than welcome, as the Minister stated, but representatives will have to negotiate with the current status quo of the country in order to gain entrance permit into Burma.

It’s really sad when I come to realize the one disaster follows the other. First it was the Tsunami, now this…who knows what’s next to come?

Climate Changes & the Tropical Species’ danger

Even if the climate changes’ consequences are expected to become more noticeable in the poles, scientists report that it’s possible to also cause a greater threat for the species that live in the tropical zones. Tropical species are used to live under small temperature ranges, thus, according to a published analysis in a weekly edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), they might not be able to face even variabilities of a few degrees. Until today, the scientists’ priority has been the research of the climate changes’ influence on species in the poles, for instance the polar bear. Those animals though, seem to be used to those changes of temperature, in contrast to those that live in the tropical zones.