One scientist has been measuring the CO₂ levels on top of Mauna Loa for 60 years — simple proof of how CO₂ levels have risen.

Guatemala is considering a law to punish women if they are believed to have had abortions. Even women who had natural miscarriages will be punished.

Other countries in Latin America already do this.

The bill also represses queer people.

Bellingcat claims to have identified a Russian intelligence officer who was in charge of the antiaircraft missile unit that shot down flight MH17 over Ukraine.

The cited phone discussion, about plans to shoot down Ukrainian military planes, confirms that Russia did not intentionally attack a civilian airliner. That makes the incident comparable to the one in which a US ship in the Persian Gulf shot down an Iranian airliner. mistaking it it for an attacking military plane. The US acknowledged the mistake, somewhat reluctantly.

Strong evidence suggests the Skripals were murdered by two Russian agents that made a brief visit to Britain. Their movements have been pieced together from many security cameras.

In 18th century naval warfare, the UK kept permanently all the letters carried by captured ships.

This was gratuitously cruel. The senders of those most of those letters were not officials or soldiers. Their mail should have been handed to the country of destination.