Russia has reconnected the electricity supply to Chernobyl, and allowed half the staff to leave and be replaced by other staff personnel.

The drones in use by Ukraine and the Putin forces don't try to choose targets without human help. But that may not be many steps away.

The time for a treaty to ban such weapons is now.

*Scientists Shocked as Polar Temperatures Soar 50 to 90 Degrees Above Normal.*

This is weather, and in a few days it will change. But the fact that it could happen is climate, and it's a harbinger of megadeaths.

"Trauma to Trust" is a program that brings cops (some of them, presumably, thugs) and people from the communities they work in, to establish empathy.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to link to articles which promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles which give important information about racism or the fight to eliminate racism. That article is one of the exceptions.

Despite my disapproval of that practice, I find the article very humane in spirit.

Union of Concerned Scientists: if the EPA shuts its web archive, that will harm science and accountability.

Can anyone find a petition campaign to change the EPA's decision?