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Professor A. Brock of the Department of Physics at the National University of Lesotho in Southern Africa, draws attention to the position of the scientist working in the Third World
The United Nations Environment Programme seems to be faltering. Richard Sandbrook reports on the efforts to deal with environmental problems on a global basis