Oxford University gave a Chinese businessman a certificate with the title of "Academician" in exchange for a donation, reasoning that the word means nothing in Oxford's terms.

The title "academician" may have little significance for Oxford, but in Russia and China it is used for members of a prestigious and important national academy. Thus, this award may be effective for impressing people in those countries. Maybe that is why Chan King Wai arranged to receive the award with a big ceremony. I wonder whose idea it was to use that particular title — Mr Chan's?

The wrecker wants to sell oil leases for the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve this year, to make it difficult to prevent future oil drilling there.

To stay within the carbon budget, We need strong measures to discourage _all_ new fossil fuel facilities, and a heavy carbon tax. I think that they would make actual drilling in the remote arctic nonviable.

Louisiana official proposes to require a positive Covid-19 test to vote by mail. People who might catch it would not be allowed to vote more safely.

*Atlantic ocean plastic more than 10 times previous estimates.*

*Toronto [thug department will] pay $16.5m to protesters wrongfully held at 2010 G20 summit.*

I wonder, will this payment cause a loss to those who wrongly arrested them?