A heartbreaking ad for União Zoófila.

Insult with style:

You lumpy accumulation of despicable potting compost.

or

You inadequate blob of fusty donkey droppings.

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Recent data from NASA’s QuikSCAT satellite shows that between 2004 and 2005 the Arctic lost an area the size of Texas of its perennial sea ice. Read the whole report on National Geographic News.

And then there’s also the phenomena of a dense blanket of pollution, dubbed the Asian Brown Cloud, that is hovering over South Asia, with scientists warning it could kill millions of people in the region, and pose a global threat. Funnily there are reports on it but the mainstream media seems to forget about it.

So time to go and see Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth.

…is to downgrade, demote or remove altogether from a prestigious group or list, Like what was done to the planet of the same name.

The Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary where everyone can upload his definitions.
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A few interesting visual representations of current world issues.
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