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While thousands of athletes from around the world compete in the Beijing 2008 Olympics - running, jumping, swimming, diving and doing just about everything else over the next 2 weeks to achieve gold - there are other games going on that are taking place far from the shiny new stadiums and flag-waving crowds.
Welcome to the animal Olympics, where species compete daily in the wild to thrive and survive.
20 Aug 2008
UK citizens using 58 baths of water a day
Stockholm, Sweden - While each person in the UK drinks, hoses, flushes and washes their way through around 150 litres of mains water a day, they consume about 30 times as much in “virtual” water embedded in food, clothes and other items – the equivalent of about 58 bathtubs full of water every day. » Read more
Mediterranean bluefin tuna is on the brink of commercial and biological collapse, driven by the uncontrolled demand for its high quality meat for sushi around the world.
If the current situation continues then time will soon run out for this amazing creature.
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