Sea lice have overwhelmed an Icelandic fish farm, infesting a million fish, which had to be slaughtered right away.

The Ohio secretary of state, who is an anti-abortion crusader, did "voter list maintenance" just before the election and cancelled the registrations of 26,000 people. What a shame it will be if this enables them to defeat the abortion rights referendum.

Republicans are also spreading false information about the referendum. Some of it is easy to ignore, since it is labeled as coming from Republicans. But Republican voters who support abortion rights (many do) might be influenced by it.

Cheating is the Republican Party's standard method of "winning" an election. A Republican scoundrel like this one will feel no embarrassment when exposed for cheating. The only thing they care about is when a court thwarts them.

The US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee consists of 20 people. 9 of them have links to agribusiness, pharma companies and other companies whose products that committee will recommend for or against,

I'd expect the members of that committee need to come from academic research. I'd also expect that the same companies sponsor nearly all the research, so that there is hardly anyone qualified to be on the panel who is not under their influence.

*In 2023 we've seen climate destruction in real time, yet rich countries are poised to do little at Cop28.*

*Extinction Rebellion co-founder [convicted] of breaking window at HS2 protest.*

For me, to be "guilty" and to be "convicted" are not the same thing at all. The former is a moral question and the latter is a judicial question. The article describes the result of a trial in which the accused was forbidden to explain the issue at stake.

The issue at stake was whether to build the high-speed train line HS2. I have never been convinced that building it was a mistake. I have never seen a convincing explanation of why high-speed train lines were not useful in Britain given how useful they are in France and Spain.