Illuminated in pink for breast cancer awareness, the statue of Christ the Redeemer is seen above Rio de Janeiro on Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana).

The walls of Jerusalem’s Old City are illuminated by pink lights marking the launch of a breast cancer awareness campaign in Israel on October 25, 2010. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images).

River Danube’s historical Chain Bridge is lit in pink during the “Health Bridge” campaign to raise awareness for breast cancer in downtown Budapest, Hungary October 2, 2010. (REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo).
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is illuminated in pink as part of the Estee Lauder Companies’ Sydney Global Illumination event in support of the National Breast Cancer Foundation, on September 28, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. (Sergio Dionisio/Getty Images).

People walk past as the Parliament Buildings are lit up in pink in support of Breast Cancer awareness month in Ottawa, Ontario on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pawel Dwulit).

October was the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM), when public service groups, medical professionals, government agencies and others work to promote awareness of the disease. Promoting awareness involves education about prevention and treatments, fundraising efforts to help find cures, and support for survivors and those dealing directly with the disease.

Breast cancer is the fifth deadliest form of cancer worldwide, and on this 25th anniversary of NBCAM, the organization that started it wants to remind women everywhere to practice regular breast self-exams and to schedule regular visits and annual mammograms with their health care provider.

found on boston.com

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Move as millions, survive as one. That is the subtitle to the new seven-part television series from National Geographic called “Great Migrations”. Animals great and small are on the move around the world, chasing resources in dangerous journeys that might take mere hours or span generations. To capture the images and video for the series, they spent two and a half years in the field, traveling 420,000 miles across 20 countries and all seven continents.

The fine folks at National Geographic have been kind enough to share with us some images from “Great Migrations: Official Companion Book” below. Great Migrations premieres in the U.S. on Sunday, November 7 on the National Geographic Channel:

An advancing white shark typically means doom for any large sea mammal it approaches, even for huge elephant seals off Guadalupe Island off Mexico’s Pacific coast. (© National Geographic/Mauricio Handler)

A polar bear stands on sea ice. The ice is critical to its habitat, and is decreasing in the warming Arctic. (© National Geographic/Paul Nicklen)
Off the coast of western Australia, small fish cluster around a whale shark, using it as shelter from predators. (© National Geographic/Brian Skerry)

Spawning salmon dominate traffic in the Ozernaya River on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. (© National Geographic/Randy Olson)

To the walrus, ice is life. An oxygen-breathing marine mammal, it relies on the ice as a place to rest, to give birth, to nurse and to migrate. And with global warming, the ice is disappearing. Their annual migration is becoming a race against time and distance, depth and disaster. (© National Geographic/Paul Nicklen).

found on boston.com

Great migrations – seven-part television series from National Geographic

Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples.

The roughly trapezoidal island lies about 30 km from Naples and measures around 10 km east to west and 7 km north to south with a 34 kilometres coastline and a surface area of 46.3 square kilometres (17.9 sq mi).

It is almost entirely mountainous, with the highest peak being Mount Epomeo at 788 meters. The island has a population of over 60,000 people.

It´s probably the most beatiful island in the whole mediterranean..

photography by Giovanni Mattera

found on albertoischia.it

Meet the fall by the mediterranean – Isola di Ischia in autumn colours

Andy Irons was a three-time world surfing champion who could conquer any wave, but the 32-year-old Hawaii native succumbed to complications from dengue fever.

The news shocked and saddened the surfing world and made clear the danger posed by a disease that is nearly unheard of in the states.

Symptoms include high fevers, rashes, headaches and fatigue. It is rarely deadly and usually goes away on its own after a week. But a related disease, dengue hemorrhagic fever, is very dangerous. Victims can go into a shock-like state and spots of blood appear on and under the skin. Doctors can only treat the symptoms, not the underlying virus. If patients survive the early shock, they typically survive.

From news reports, it is not yet clear what form of dengue fever Irons had or what complications caused his death.

Irons won three straight world titles from 2002 to 2004, according to Bloomberg, and was the only surfer to win at every spot on the elite tour.

He leaves behind his wife and unborn son

found on cbsnews.com

NEWS // Surfing Legend Andy Irons – Dead at 32

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, The Cove follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the international dolphin capture trade as practiced in Taiji, Japan. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras in fake rocks, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide.

found on youtube.com