China ended manufacture of the greenhouse gas HFC-23, but emissions have increased despite that.

Shipment of live animals between countries is dangerous for everyone — many bring infections with them.

Seven questions expose the ways mainstream media implement their bias against progressives.

The mainstream media are big corporations owned by giant corporations. Naturally they support the policies that serve giant corporations, on the issues that those care about.

Australian planners recommend buying the land from people whose isolated houses in the forest were burned.

This will surely reduce property damage and deaths from future fires. It may also make containing those fires a little easier, as fire-fighting will not be complicated by the wish to save houses where there are no houses.

However, over the decades as the fires get ever worse, that won't make a noticeable difference. Short-term improvements are good, but we must not let them steal the show from what we need for the long term: to curb global heating.

Exposure to sugar caused changes in pigs' brains similar to those caused by opioids.

It would be harmful to ban sugar — just as it is harmful to ban other recreational drugs — but it could be helpful to change social systems to reduce the social pressure to use them.