Indonesia is temporarily the biggest CO2 emitter due to large forest fires that were intentionally set for the purpose of deforestation.

The motive for the deforestation is to produce palm oil.

The deepest lesson here is that if we don't take strong measures, there will be less and less room for anything but human activities to survive, until eventually global heating destroys civilization. Then a large fraction of the human population will die, and the rest will swelter in poverty.

Poachers that kill mammals in Africa kill vultures too. The lack of vultures can cause disaster.

The director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, in Moscow, has been arrested because the library has banned books.

Reportedly North Korea has sent 50,000 people as forced laborers to foreign countries, including well-known tyrannies, but also Poland.

How could this be occurring in Poland, a part of the EU?

Thousands of Afghans flee each day, trying to get to Europe.

They fear the Taliban will win.

If all of them joined militias to fight the Taliban, they would defeat it. But the government does not inspire that kind of loyalty.