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Russia and the United States might just battle once more, not over ideology and governance style this time but over the ‘massive mineral wealth hidden deep under the Arctic seabed – much of it made more accessible as the ice cap retreats.’ There just might be the possibility of war on the top of the world. This tension harks back to those [...]

The Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA simulated the consequences of a world without ozone. In the agency’s experiment, findings disclosed that nearly two-thirds of the terrestrial ozone would be gone by 2065, across the globe and not only over Antarctica and the North Pole. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation (up to 650 percent) would be such that sunburn [...]