Rebecca Solnit: *The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement.*

US citizens: call on Congress to ban voter-ID laws and other artificial obstacles to voting, by passing the Right to Vote Act.

Research aims to generate 10% of electricity demand from geothermal power by 2050.

If the technology works, we could do it faster than that -- by spending money to build faster.

Although atmospheric rivers in California have caused floods and mudslides, doing lots of damage, they have lifted the state out of the drought that has lasted many years.

The drought was a stage in global heating, and the heavy rains another stage. We don't know what the next stage will be.

The US Supreme Court may soon rule that US states cannot make any rules about how banks treat their customers.