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Carnivorous plants - like all plants - can make food from the sun's energy and carbon dioxide in the air and water from the ground. The insects that the carnivorous plants eat are devoured not for food but for the minerals they provide.


Sunburned fish


Sunburned fish
The depletion of the ozone layer is allowing harmful ultraviolet-B light into the sea’s surface water, causing the skins of young fish to become sunburned. Darker skinned fish, such as the turbot, are more tolerant of the harmful rays, but pale skinned fish, such as the sole, are more vulnerable to being sunburnt.
NOVEMBER 17, 2000
The Globe and Mail
NOVEMBER 17, 2000

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