Turkey is blocking Syrian refugees from accepting resettlement offers from the US simply because they have university degrees.

The motive may be a valid one.

A statistical model suggests that air pollution from the forest fires in Indonesia last year killed around 100,000 people.

Those fires were set in order to destroy rainforest and create plantations.

Peter Van Buren apologizes to his daughter for an America contorted and sickened by irrational fear of terrorism.

Many car companies sell diesel cars that grossly violate NO2 emissions standards.

It's not just Volkswagen.

This pollution causes lots of deaths, but the EU does not seem to be taking the issue very seriously.

The Syrian cease-fire has problems, but the US and Russia have not given up hope.

The other problem is that the US and allies bombed Syrian troops on one occasion, in a town besieged by PISSI. The US says that this was a mistake and that PISSI was the intended target.