Deadliest catch: Turtles die 'in their millions' from fishing lines

Deadliest catch: Turtles die 'in their millions' from fishing lines
April 7, 2010
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/04/07/eco.turtle.bycatch/index.html

During the last 20 years, turtles have been victims of fishing. The Mediterranean and the Eastern Pacific are locations where sea turtle populations are in danger to disappear. A report says that the increasing in fishing gear in the marine habitats might cause more accidental deaths of sea turtles. Other animals besides the sea turtles that are commonly caught by accident are sharks, dolphins and albatrosses. These animals often die because of sharp J-shaped hooks or by getting stuck in a fishing net and drowning. In the last 20 years there have been reported more than ten thousands of sea turtles by fishing. Sea turtle have other threats like people capture them for their meat and also for their eggs. They also die from destruction of their nests on the beach and from the pollution of the ocean. Six of the seven species of sea turtles are endangered species.
This is really sad because turtles have always been one of the most interesting species of the world. We think fishermen should be more careful and try to release the turtles they accidently catch. If we were them we would save the turtles we caught in the net and investigate if we were fishing in a place where turtles are. This article may create awareness of what is happening to turtles and we hope that people do their best to save them. Many types of turtles are getting extinct and if they reduce the bycatch of them we would make more turtles survive. Turtles die for many reasons, but this is the one that kills the most. We must do something about it before this wonderful specie becomes extinct.

Death toll from Brazil floods now 229, officials say

Death toll from Brazil floods now 229, officials say
April 12, 2010
CNN News
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/04/12/brazil.flooding.mudslides/index.html?iref=allsearch
Brazil is currently having problems with flooding and mudslides. Mud is burying people and leaving them killed. Flooding is leaving many people homeless destroying their homes. President Lula is getting 200 million Brazilian reais for emergency funding in Rio de Janeiro. Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral will invest 1billion reais in order to reconstruct houses for the people that are left homeless. Rain in brazil is forecasted on Monday and the next days. Most of the money that will be held for the 2016 Olympics and 2012 Word Cup hosted by Brazill will be invested as well to help brazil.
This disaster has affected may people living in Rio de Janeiro. This is really bad because it has left many people without a home and some even without family. Brazil has and will spend a lot of money fixing this problem. Everyone wants it to stop and for everything to become normal again. We hope that brazil will go back to normal. We also think that when they build the houses again they do them with a better structure so if it happens again it will be more safe and less people would die or get injured.

Two killed, 100 injured in Mexican earthquake

By the CNN Wire Staff
April 5, 2010 2:02 p.m. EDT

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/04/04/mexico.earthquake/index.html

On Sunday, Northwest Mexico Baja California was hitten by a 7.2 earthquake. This earthquake left 2 people dead and 100 injured. It was at 3:40 pm. There hadn’t been such a big earthquake since 1979. This earthquake could cause other earthquakes. Mexicali was destroyed really badly. All Mexicali has lost power after accident. When the people felt the earthquake, they started to run to the exit in the store, someone said. Many of this people went to the people where into the parking lot. After the earthquake there were 3 large aftershocks. The largest one was of 5.5 magnitude. Some people were trapped in the elevator, but had no injuries.

Our group opinion is that we think there will be strong earthquakes in Central America. We reflect that the next earthquake upcoming will be in Guatemala. One of our members thinks that houses or buildings in Guatemala can’t be crushed down because they are all made to hold 9.0 magnitude earthquakes. In our basic opinion, professional architects must be used to build buildings in order for everyone to be safe. Maybe, the buildings in Mexico and California must’ve been wrongly built or done some mistakes while processing their construction.