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T oday’s blog post is about a carbon budget. What’s a carbon budget you ask? Well, it’s roughly based on the idea of an actual budget in a way, something we will get to shortly. For purposes of clarity, let me explain what a global carbon budget is. A global carbon budget is the processes of removal and absorption in the carbon cycle affected by mankind, that is, the quantities of carbon emissions released by human activities into the atmosphere as well as the amounts that are removed and absorbed into the oceans, land and plants. So these are specifically human led processes that emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere such as burning fossils, cutting forests, agriculture. T hen there are those processes that absorb carbon like when it dissolves into the ocean, is absorbed by plants and stored in their trunks and later in the soil. So a global carbon budget measures the emissions released into the air as well as how much of it is subsequently removed /absorbed and stored.  ...

Well, hello there fresh and young! Got a question for you. What’s your skin care routine like? Er, the first question actually should be, do you have a skin care routine? Did you know, we all take care of our skin? Yes you do. Whether it is splashing some soapy water on your face to clear the dirt and sweat or spending hours in spas, online beauty forums and money in countless purchases of that ‘miracle product’, we all care about how we look to some extent, whether it is 1% or 100%. Well regardless of those who find it impossible to leave the house without at least ten products on their face and those who deem it vain, and feeding consumerism, skin care is important and why? Because the skin is the largest organ in the body, covering your entire flesh and also acting as the first barrier against harmful external elements such as ultra violet solar radiation, chemicals, pollutants, bacteria and  other harmful disease causing organisms. The skin, alongside c...