The new US government program of handouts for the biggest companies has no conditions of honesty or decency. Nothing would stop them from handing the money straight to the CEO, except that the other stockholders might demand a cut.

The overload of the NHS, and other secondary effects, could cause around 18,000 additional deaths from cancer in the UK over the next 12 months.

These are people who have cancer anyway, but the situation will impede their treatment.

The US commission on international religious freedom asked to list India as one of the "countries of particular concern" due to Modi's repression of Muslims.

An incinerator that is burning firefighting foam that contains PFAs is not burning 100% of those chemicals. Some have been find in soil and water in the vicinity of the incinerator.

This is a matter of concern even for small quantities, since they don't naturally decay at all.

Some countries are making big efforts to help the homeless; others are punishing them for being homeless. Meanwhile, businesses are exploiting Covid-19 to make more people homeless.

Fundamentally, the large number of people with no home, or a cramped home, is due to the combination of inequality (and its consequent poverty), urbanization, and population growth. Urbanization is itself the result of economic causes related to inequality.