The UK spends more money testing disabled workers to see who supposedly could work than it saves by denying disability benefits to them. That's despite the fact that the testing system errs in favor of finding disabled people "fit to work".

A Turkish journalist who was arrested for filming a fight between state thugs and PKK supporters was jailed "for protective reasons". Now he has been released on bail, but still faces charges.

What could this sort of thing "protect" Turkey from? From the truth about its government?

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation causes some parameters of global heating to resemble a staircase more than an even ramp.

For a while, the increased heat goes into the ocean, then for a while it goes into the atmosphere. The denial campaign focused on the last period when heat went into the ocean and claimed that global heating has "paused".

Global heating is slowing the overall water circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean. One effect is increased sea-level rise for the northeast US.

Some worry that this circulation pattern could slow so much that it causes drastic changes in the Arctic Ocean.

The effects of traumatic events on children's bodies can now be measured from the level of cortisol in their hair.