June

2014
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By buying CFL bulbs,
youll save money
in the long run, and
lighten your impact on
the environment.
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Koala bears almost
exclusively eat only
eucalyptus leaves and
nothing else.
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A chameleons tongue
is as long as its body.
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Wear an extra sweater
or use a blanket before
you resort to turning on
(or up) the heat.
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Food scraps and plant
clippings decompose
to form methane, a
greenhouse gas 20
times more potent than
carbon dioxide.
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WORLD DAY
TO COMBAT
DESERTIFICATION
AND DROUGHT
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Why was the cat afraid
of the tree?
A: Because of its bark
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Use rotting leaves in
your garden instead of
peat moss. Its better to
leave the peat in bogs,
where its helping the
environment.
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Fleas can jump up to
200 times their height.
This is equivalent to a
man jumping off the
Empire State Building
in New York.
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Did you know, each
square mile of ocean
is estimated to have
46,000 pieces of plastic
foating in it.
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African elephants can
detect seismic signals
with the sensory cells in
their feet!
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WORLD
ENVIRONMENT
DAY
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The center of the Sun
is approximately 15
million C
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Use biodegradable
soaps and shampoos.
6
How do you cut the
ocean in half?
A: With a SEA SAW!
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Tigers not only have
stripes on their fur, they
also have them on their
skin. No two tigers ever
have the same stripes.
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Platypuses can
consume their own
body weight in food in
a 24 hour period.
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Hydroelectric Power:
Renewable energy
produced by the force
of water, either as it
fows or as it falls.
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The bullfrog is the
only animal that never
sleeps.
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The sailfsh is the fastest
swimmer, reaching 109
km/h (68 mph).
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It takes 600 litres of
water to make one loaf
of bread: to grow the
wheat and bake the
bread.
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The African Lungfsh
can live out of water for
up to four years.
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All oysters are born
males but may change
from gender to gender.
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WORLD OCEANS DAY
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GLOBAL WIND DAY
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Did you know, New
Zealand is home to 4
million people and 70
million sheep.
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