Polluted waters
Jun 8 2007, Kanchan

Today is World Ocean’s Day and most of the world is apparently celebrating it digging more graves in the liquid graveyard of the dead. Don’t ask what do the oceans hold for the future; they’re screaming about a dooming legacy of polluted waters, dead...

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