In a rare victory against massive surveillance of everyone, New Jersey Transit turned off the audio recording on its trains.

The proposed Maryland bill sounds like a good approach to this issue.

India's sexual conservatism is imposed with a system of repression.

Sea otters are crucial to kelp forests, whose tremendous carbon absorption capacity we need. Humans have backed off from wiping out sea otters, but now killer whales are eating them.

A year of insufficient rain, perhaps caused by global heating, killed the mangrove forest along 700km of coast in Australia.

Philippine thugs have murdered more than 100 people accused of being drug dealers or something.

I predict that the victims will come to include journalists, dissidents, and people who were somehow "in the way".