Arguing that putting the local inhabitants or indigenous people in control of forests works better than REDD for ending deforestation.

I see some questionable points. For instance, the danger that the forest's trees may die even if protected exists no matter how we try to protect them. Global heating is killing a lot of pine trees in the US.

US citizens: call on the Senate to resist the NRA and approve Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General.

Australia proposes to imprison journalists and their sources for publishing information about secret searches of people's homes.

Hundreds of thousands of fools wanted to risk spreading Ebola to humans to save a dog.

Nobody knows whether a dog can pass Ebola to humans, but let's not find out the hard way.

A pressure campaign (which I supported here) has convinced Lego to cancel its marketing collaboration with Shell.

This sort of thing is very important: we need to strip the fossil fuel companies of the little maneuvers that they use to disguise the murderous nature of their plans.