Essay: Depletion of the Ozone Layer - The ozone layer is a strip of physically, biologically occurring ozone gas that is situated 9.3 to 15 to 30 kilometers above the Earth and is considered to be a natural shield from the harmful ultraviolet B radiation produced by the sun.
Currently, there is widespread concern that the ozone layer is being systematically destroyed because of the large-scale release of greenhouse gasses containing the chemicals chlorine and bromine. This destruction allows large amounts of ultraviolet B rays to reach Earth, which is the main cause of skin cancer and cataracts in humans and is very harmful to animals as well. (more…)
Economic globalization is the increasing economic integration and interdependence of national, regional, and local economies across the world through an intensification of cross-border movement of goods, services, technologies, and capital.
Whereas globalization is a broad set of processes concerning multiple networks of economic, political, and cultural interchange, contemporary economic globalization is propelled by the rapidly growing significance of information in all types of productive activities and marketing, and by developments in science and technology. (more…)
By the end of 2006, the relationship between the Iraq War and the war on terror had become very complicated: on the ground, in American rhetoric, among American politicians, and in the military budget. Military leadership and troops on the ground had begun the fight ‘between Sunnis and Shiites by August 2006.
At nearly the same time, however, a classified military report on the situation in Iraq's Anbar province described it as completely under the control of the rebels and Al-Qaeda sympathizers who are opposed to the American's presence in the country and regards them as invaders who are there only to exploit their natural resources. (more…)