... oil slicks, spillages of one source or another. In many places – and certainly this is true in England and probably true in other countries: in many continental countries and on the Mediterranean coast – untreated sewage is discharged directly into the sea instead of being treated and used on the land, as would seem possible. Side by side with this, ... we use huge quantities of chemical fertilizers in our agriculture. Some of these fertilizers seep down into the underground water-shelves and aquifers and finds its way into the river ... system together with chemicals discharged by ...

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... It must take proper initiative and help its citizen to protect the human environment from pollution. Even in the battle field, the early Muslim was ordered to keep the sanctity of nature. The First Caliph of Islam, Abu Bakr (R.), Ordered the Muslim army: "Do not cut down a tree, do not abuse a river, do not harm animals and be always kind and humane ... yields. And give good news to the patients."33 On the other hand, Ecologists have shown many ways to prove the role of man to polluting environment. By the selfish use of resources, deforestation, abuse of energy, igniorance about the imp...

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... It must take proper initiative and help its citizen to protect the human environment from pollution. Even in the battle field, the early Muslim was ordered to keep the sanctity of nature. The First Caliph of Islam, Abu Bakr (R.), Ordered the Muslim army: "Do not cut down a tree, do not abuse a river, do not harm animals and be always kind and humane ... yields. And give good news to the patients."33 On the other hand, Ecologists have shown many ways to prove the role of man to polluting environment. By the selfish use of resources, deforestation, abuse of energy, igniorance about the imp...

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... , swampy vegetation could grow. Other mismatches of geology and climate included distinctive fossil ferns (Glossopteris) discovered in now-polar regions, and the occurrence of glacial deposits in present-day arid Africa, such as the Vaal River valley of South Africa. The theory of continental drift would become the spark that ignited a new way of viewing the Earth. But at the time Wegener introduced his theory, the scientific community firmly believed the continents and oceans to ... out in rows on either side of the mid-ocean ridge: one stripe with normal polarity and the adjoining stri...

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