April 2014

Day 17 - Giraffe kisses dying zoo worker final goodbye
Province of St.Mary Mazzarello, Mumbai (INB)

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  ——–   Heart-breaking pictures have emerged of the moment a giraffe said goodbye to a terminally ill zoo worker, who had spent most of his adult life cleaning the animal’s enclosures. Maintenance worker Mario has terminal cancer and had asked to be taken into the giraffe enclosure at Rotterdam’s Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo. The 54-year-old was wheeled into the enclosure on his hospital bed. Within minutes, the giraffes approached him

Environment - Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come By JUSTIN GILLIS MARCH 30, 2014
Province of St.Mary Mazzarello, Mumbai (INB)

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(Sr. Santana Pereira) Greenland’­s immense ice sheet is melting as a result of climate change. Credit Kadir van Lohuizen for The New York Times YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on

Day 14 - A Water Body turns Animals/Birds into Stones
Province of St.Mary Mazzarello, Mumbai (INB)

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  (Sr. Santana Pereira) There’s a deceptively still body of water in Tanzania with a deadly secret—it turns any animal it touches to stone. The rare phenomenon is caused by the chemical makeup of the lake, but the petrified creatures it leaves behind are straight out of a horror film. Photographed by Nick Brandt in his new book, Across the Ravaged Land,petrified creatures pepper the area around the lake due to