Obama and Trudeau said that the US and Canada would lead the world towards lower greenhouse gas emissions.

I wish I could have confidence this is more than just talk. Not long ago, Trudeau called for more pipelines to export tar sands oil.

A fracking company will have to pay 4 million dollars to families whose wells it polluted, but there is no way to restore the water to its former drinkable state.

Anti-coal activists in Bangladesh are going to march 400km (around 270 miles) to call attention to the harm done by burning coal.

Israel is investigating a video that appears to show that a thug shot and killed a Palestinian that was lying wounded on the street.

Five years later, cleaning up the Fukushima meltdowns is going slowly, and it will take many decades to finish (using methods yet to be developed).

If civilization collapses due to global heating, and the melted fuel is still there, it could have a nuclear fizzle and spew a lot more fallout than it did the first time.

The Fukushima reactors had known safety flaws that made it vulnerable to an earthquake. Many other reactors have them too. These flaws were covered up for the sake of the company's profits.