As we start a new year, we want to focus on aspects of our world. Specifically, aspects which impact both our lives and the protection of the products we produce as a society. Correspondingly, one of these areas is air pollution and its respective impact around the world.
Coral is a vital part of the underwater ecosystem but the temperature of the sea has been affecting coral. Specifically, killing (an estimated) 25% of it, bleaching large swaths of it, and making it difficult for new natural coral to grow.
There is a lot to say about being recyclable. There is a lot to say about the Amazon River; its history, discovery, myths, scale, and on and on, but when I was there I saw two things; its raw beauty and its potential. The raw beauty speaks for itself; none of my pictures capture it quite like the one below, taken at sunset, but the potential deserves a bit more of an explanation.