Behind the Liquid!

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BEHIND THE LIQUID

DISAPPEARING WORLD: GLOBAL WARMING CLAIMS TROPICAL ISLAND
For the first time…rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of climate scientists has started coming true. As the seas continue to swell, they will swallow whole island nations, from the Maldives to the Marshall Islands, inundate vast areas of countries, and submerge parts of scores of coastal cities. (The Independent, Dec 24, 2006)

CONSERVATION TRUST ATTACKED FOR ACCEPTING OIL GIANT'S CASH

BP, the multinational oil giant has just begun funding the John Muir Trust to look after Schiehallion, the 1083 metre mountain near Aberfeldy bought by the trust eight months ago. One of BP Amoco's most-hated developments, a large new oil field west of Shetland in the north Atlantic, is named after the mountain. (The Sunday Herald, April 30, 2000)

GENETIC JUGGLING GIVES BIRTH TO A NEW WORLD

Like the chimeras of legend - the half-fish, half-human-female mermaids - "geeps" contain two distinct species lines, those of a goat and a sheep. Geeps - with the facial markings mostly from the goat and wool from the sheep - are created by fusing embryos from both species in a test tube. (Journal of Science and Medicine, Jan 15, 1989)