Global crisis:

Man’s interference with environment

The ozone layer of the Earth’s atmosphere plays an important role in depleting the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation that reaches the surface. As DNA is readily damaged by UV light, this serves to protect life at the surface. The atmosphere also retains heat during the night, thereby reducing the daily temperature extremes,

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The Morning Inspection

Libya’s tomorrow: Afghanistan’s today and Vietnam’s yesterday?

The USA went in to capture an elusive figure called Osama bin Laden. Death, displacement, dismemberment, destruction and deprivation followed. One has to conclude that ‘Libya’ is nothing more nothing less than a new name and new location for the powers that be in the USA to indulge in their favourite pastime (killing and maiming brown coloured people) while giving a boost to the mainstay of that economy, the weapons industry,

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Earth Hour came and went...

The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), formerly known as the World Wild Life Fund created the ‘Earth Hour’ together with the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007. The idea was to focus the world’s attention to the need to conserve energy for the sake of ensuring the good health of the planet earth and life in it.

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