The siege of Gaza, which forces people to extract too much water from the local aquifer, will make it permanently salinified and useless in a few years.

The prospects for Americans who work for a living (or need to) are getting ever worse; but methods to reverse these developments are known.

Everyone: call on Pakistan to repeal its deadly blasphemy law.

25 years of evidence show that global heating is increasing the danger of wildfires in Australia, but Australia's PM brashly denies the facts.

He could not have won the election if he were stupid, so the explanation must be something worse.

Meanwhile, Faux News promotes denial through false balance, which validates denialists even more than if it presented only them.

Big clothing companies still have not agreed to pay compensation to the victims of last December's Rana Plaza factory fire in Bangladesh.

We should not leave this up to those companies. We should make the company that imports the goods and/or commissions their production responsible for (1) keeping track of subcontractor in its supply chain, and (2) applying Western standards of working conditions to all of them.

The issue applies also to palm oil production.