A nurse in Kenya has been sentenced to death for an underground abortion which went wrong, but Kenya's restrictive abortion law is the real killer.

Comparing the video of the killing of John Crawford with what the thugs said had happened shows their story was false.

The thugs call that "testilying".

Australia's hottest ever recorded spring and summer, a year ago, were 2000 times more likely due to the global heating that has occurred in recent decades.

Press Release by Occupy Central with Love & Peace (Hong Kong).

Mass protests have succeeded in Hong Kong before.

Nicaragua's planned canal would destroy and pollute forests where endangered species live.

I have to wonder whether a railroad might do a better job. Now that containers make it quick and easy to load and unload ships, the time it takes to move cargo from ship to train is only a matter of how long a ship must wait to be unloaded. Building more port facilities can reduce that to any level.

A train line could carry the containers from one shore to the other faster than a ship could go through the canal. If one train line isn't enough, even ten parallel tracks would hurt the forest and the surrounding inhabitants less than a canal.

Animals can run across the tracks, but it would be easy to make bridges across the train lines since trains are much less tall than ships.