Buffett ‘becomes world’s richest’

US investment guru Warren Buffett has ousted his friend and occasional bridge partner Bill Gates as the world’s richest man, Forbes magazine says. The Microsoft co-founder had topped the Forbes business magazine’s rich-list for the past 13 years. Mr Buffett’s wealth increased by $10bn (£5bn) last year to $62bn. Mr Gates’s fortune climbed by $2bn [...]

Dept of Homeland Security issues an alert… about itself.

Bribery. Drug trafficking. Migrant smuggling.U.S. Customs and Border Protection is supposed to stop these types of crimes. Instead, so many of its officers have been charged with committing those crimes themselves that their boss in Washington recently issued an alert about the ”disturbing events” and the “increase in the number of employee arrests.”Thomas S. Winkowski, [...]

Ozone: Deplete it and the Earth cools.

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The information about the ozone layer on wikipedia is a bit difficult to understand, but basically, “ozone warms the stratosphere by absorbing both infrared and ultraviolet radiation; thus ozone loss in that region should lead to cooling.” - ucar

Although ozone depletion cools the Earth’s surface, repairing stratospheric ozone is important to [...]