The US used "weather balloons" to spy on China and the Soviet Union in 1956. If one wanted to argue that China is evil and vicious because it sent a balloon to spy on the US, that inconvenient fact would show the argument to be hypocrisy.

I do not think it was particularly bad of China to use balloons to snoop on a rival, or that it was particularly bad of the US to do likewise. I don't condemn China for snooping. I condemn China for its horrible repression and brainwashing of Uygurs in Xinjiang, for its horrible repression and crushing of the 7-8 million people of Hong Kong, and its plans to conquer Taiwan so as to repress and crush the 23 million Taiwanese.

I also secondarily rebuke China for its blatant plans for economic colonialism around the world. This is no better when China does it than when the US does it.

The system for quantifying CO2 emissions from hybrid cars substantially underestimates the real world emissions of those cars.

Sea turtles are in danger of extinction from global heating. The sex of an egg is determined by the temperature, so heating make them all develop into females. They tend to lay eggs earlier in the year, which will help avoid that problem, but calculations say it won't do enough.

The Department of the Interior cannot entirely cancel leasing of land for fossil fuel drilling, so it intends to postpone the leasing — perhaps indefinitely.

Planet roasters are suing, demanding that it hold leases soon.

Some railroad workers' unions at one of the big US railroads won a deal for a few days of paid sick leave per year.