Global heating changes some plants such that their flowers can't be pollinated.

The Haitian government is painting the houses in a shantytown to improve the view from an expensive new hotel.

If scientists had said that an asteroid had a 90% chance of hitting the Earth in a few decades, we'd be going all-out to deflect it. Contrast that with humanity's weak response to global heating.

Part of the difference is that no big companies would profit by keeping the asteroid on its collision course.

The IPCC report concludes that human-caused global heating is virtually a certainty.

Here are the main points.

Melting sea ice means that traditional travel routes in the Arctic are now unsafe.

How human greenhouse gas emissions relate to the heating.

Why the deniers' arguments are bogus.

It comes down to, how big does a danger have to be before you try to save yourself?

Todd Ashker, California hunger strike organizer, says the prisoners will resume their hunger strike if they don't get humane treatment.

He managed to unite prisoners of different races, overcoming the foolish racism that divides them and makes them easy to manipulate.

The guards say that solitary confinement is a punishment for belonging to a gang, but they label someone a gang member on the flimsiest pretexts, and the only way to get out of solitary is to accuse others (truly or not).