Businesses spying on activists can buy the support of the FBI and CIA for their War on Democracy, which in many cases is part of their War on the Ecosphere.

Karzai says Afghanistan will not use execution by stoning as a penalty for adultery.

What will Afghanistan do to people who have sex outside marriage? Something else almost as nasty?

A port in Canada says it plans to "survive" by taking advantage of global heating to bring oil in by train for export, thus causing more global heating. How narrowminded. This attitude, "We are going to 'survive' (i.e., maintain our business) by killing people elsewhere", is why the world does nothing to escape disaster.

The trains will from time to time explode and kill people.

This is the sort of behavior that should lead the rest of the world to forcibly stop it.

An experiment shows that fertilizer runoff does great harm to coral, and that the coral can recover quickly if the fertilizer runoff stops.

Once again, Muslims try to impose their religion on everyone else — this time in Nigeria.