The Oceans by DisneyNature

Strongly recommended.

or the link : http://youtu.be/uXLbQrK6cXw?hd=1

Quake, Tsunami & Nuclear - What could be worse?

Second largest earthquake measuring 8.9 shooked Japan triggering a tsunami and caused catastrophic damage to the island.

Blast at Japan's nuclear power plant is a huge reminder of history trying to repeat itself. Chernobyl 1986 and Three Mile Island 1979.

The world should be responding in a frenzy now. But looking at FB, I felt disappointed. People updating about how bad food tastes, how uncomfortable their life is, how it sucks to be flying a low cost flight, how slow their pc are, how much they are reminded of WWII....

Has everyone been too easy in their comfort zone?

Have they forgot how to be thankful?

Do they not feel too blessed?

Dog speaks loyalty

cnn.com.

Leao sat next to Cristina's grave, undisturbed, for days.

Thank you Megi

It's funny how humans [not quite sure about the animal kingdom] cannot be grateful and contented with what they have.

Megi was scheduled to hit Hong Kong last Thursday - expected to be the strongest storm to ever hit the region, bringing heavy downpour, mudslides, shutting down the mega city and definitely halting the economy. HK was prepared for it, and people were seen busy getting ready to embrace the wild storm and stocking up food at home.

The forecast went from Typhoon Signal No. 1 and rose up to 3 and stayed there until Wednesday. Miraculously, sun was shining brightly on Thursday, with the slightest breeze felt throughout the day. The weekend was tremendously fine, just ripe for the autumn season.

Super typhoon had decided to spare HK of it's massive killer strength and travel much north and brought other neighbouring regions battling with it.

However, not everyone felt grateful that they escaped what could possibly be the worst state of devastation that they could have ever imagined. Some started cursing the HK Observatory for the fluctuating forecast and condemned their reliability.

Little did they had in mind, how lucky we were at this stage.

270,000 flee, as typhoon hits China

And the fact that, we're a small little island, standing next door to them.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if got sick, at least we didn't die; so let us all be thankful.

[Buddha]

Hong Kong's period of grief...

Such a tragic end for Hong Kongers at Manila...

A day, nobody could be proud to have it listed in the history...

Who could have thought of a massacre while touristing?

All they wanted was just to travel abroad during the summer holidays.. with their loved ones.. before school reopens...

We watched, horrified with the live telecast... anticipated the outcome of the 10-hour standoff... clock ticked by too slowly for hope...

The worst had sounded... Hong Kong hearts are shattered..

Some are left widowed.. some orphaned.. some lost their dependants...

Just too much to bear..

People are scarred for life..

In a bus ride, hijacked by a lone gunman..

surrounded by 200 SWAT trained personnels...

snipers...

10hours of standoff...

2negotiators...

and, 1 simple request : secure and protect my people...

Philippines, who can stop blaming you?

Hong Kong has been weeping for the lives lost..

Hong Kong is in deep sorrow...

Hong Kong wants justice...

I hope that they find peace...

Man's Greed & Shark's Ill Fate

Man & Shark from alexhofford on Vimeo.

7.0-mag earthquake collapses Haiti

Haiti, the poorest nation Western Hemisphere which is prone to disaster was strucked by a powerful earthquake on Wednesday, 13th Jan 2010. The strong earthquake demonstrated no mercy to the 2million population of Haitians with deaths amounted to 100,000 people.

It is the first major destructive earthquake documented in 2010, and yet there are ongoing predictions of earthquakes all over the world. With these sequence of tectonic movements, we know that the Earth is constantly shifting and alternating the boundaries down under. Some call these 'The End of the World" or "Armageddon". But scientists have lots to share in terms of environment and Earth's histories.

I'm sure, this has nothing to do with development, just pure natural disaster. We should look back to Earth's histories in order to understand it more.

Let's pray that Haitians have faith to hold on and rebuild their nation.

Climate Change_Blog Action Day 2009

Everybody talks about climate change.
But, do we know exactly what is climate change?

Not until series of unfortunate events surfaced lately, that this topic of interest was given much thought. Scientists, environmentalists, geochemist, oceanographers, climate experts and others have been trying to link increasing number of natural disasters in connection with climate change. Studies remain in conduct while the pace of disasters continue stringing faster. We still could not clearly point out the link between those two, but it certainly invited heaps of arguements around the world to discuss about it.

• Typhoons...
• Hurricanes...
  
• Floods...
• Drought...
• Sand storm...
  
• Melting polar ice caps..
• Rising sea water level..
• Increasing daily temperatures..

The damage from natural disasters may not be immediately detected, but globally, this phenomenon has been recognised to be a threat to humans and multiple level of interacting ecosystems.

The damage is disastrous and massive. Climate change claim lives... people that you care and love could be affected... Climate change is too expensive to gamble with... recession, economic downturn, inflation...


Now, we know the power of CHANGING CLIMATE!

Disastrous September

Manila Typhoon Ketsana. Padang, Sumatra 7.7-magnitude earthquake. American Samoa earthquake tsunami. Storm hits and landslides in Vietnam, Cambodia.

Mid September kicked started abruptly with some sprinkle of rain and strong wind in the capital of Phillipines. The rain gradually picked up as monstrous wind carrying storm hit Manila and instantly forced the country into a state of calamity as claimed. Typhoon Ketsana swept the countrymen off their grounds and left them to struggle for life, until now. Deaths are still mounting up.

The storm travelled west and demonstrated its supremacy on Cambodia and Vietnam. The typhoon continued to rain floods and destroy houses while uprooting the soils. Deaths ensued.

American Samoa is almost flattened out by a tsunami triggered by 8.0-8.3 magnitude quake. The island remains in chaos and the damage is extensive. More than 90 people have been confirmed dead and the official number is still rising.

History repeats itself in Sumatra after 5 years of silence. The Pacific Ring of Fire reigns it's absolute power once again with a magnitude of 7.7 on Ritcher scale on the south of the island. Indonesia, is once again put to test after the devastating Tsunami in 2004. The earthquake rocked little Padang and show no mercy eventhough a tsunami was not in the picture. More deaths are recorded as people are believed to be trapped under piles of fallen concrete buildings and structures.

The quake force a tremor to be felt in high rise buildings throughout Malaysia. Tension arised.

In memory of tsunami 2004..

And this is only the month of October.