So where do we start this fine Sunday? How about the fact that...
THE AMAZON APPEARS TO BE DYING
(That’s the river. Not the dot com.)
As in this story from New Zealand that claims "the consequences would be awesome. The wet Amazon Basin would turn to dry savannah at best, desert at worst. This would cause much of the world to become hotter and drier. In the long term, it could send global warming out of control, eventually making the world uninhabitable.At one point in the western Brazilian state of Acre, the world's biggest river shrank so far that it was possible to walk across it. Millions of fish died, and thousands of communities whose only transport was by water were stranded. And the drying forest caught fire; in September, satellite camera images showed 73,000 blazes in the basin." For the whole horrible and almost unnoticed story –
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/print.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10392615