Australia's carbocratic government says it will operate with "renewed vigor" on the Great Barrier Reef.

What it was doing already was bad enough.

Egypt has sentenced almost 200 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death, supposedly for killing a few thugs.

Egyptian trials are so wacky that this one gives us no reason to think those people did anything at all, or even that they supported the Muslim Brotherhood. Who knows?

But if they really did kill thugs, so what? The thugs were already shooting supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, so why shouldn't they shoot back?

This has nothing to do with what the Muslim Brotherhood stands for (which, as an Atheist, I don't agree with at all).

A large part of the UK has been put off limits to fracking, with the result that business may find fracking unprofitable to try.

Chemical companies suppressed an EU report that aimed to limit hormone-mimicking pesticides that can cause cancer and birth defects.

80% of UK universities have rules restricting freedom of expression.

There is some confusion regarding the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign supported by the UWE student union. It is aimed at Israeli institutions, including the universities (which are connected with the occupation), but not at individual scholars. Thus, it includes a boycott of Israeli academiEs but not of Israeli academiCs.