Tons of plastic trash pile up on remote beaches in Alaska, as measured by volunteers who travel there to collect the trash. In some cases, it's a ton per mile. And it kills birds and fish.

If we made some of this stuff biodegradable, it would not pile up so high.

Many countries in the EU are not on track to meet their renewable energy targets for 2020.

It is difficult to achieve substantial changes by setting a distant target first. Success comes from firm policies whose effects can be predicted.

US officials including Obama have a history of using deceptive language to mislead the public about massive surveillance, and even flat-out lies.

Congress should jail Clapper for this.

Prisoners in a US jail, locked in their cells for 23 hours a day with little to do, communicate using toilet pipes as speaking tubes.

In the US: rally for the Fourth Amendment (limiting searches and seizures) on July 4.