Climate mayhem will affect crucial "nitrogen fixing" ocean bacteria.

This is not necessarily going to mean disaster — the other nutrients these bacteria consume will remain available to everything that eats these bacteria. Also, bacteria adapt fast. Still messing with such things is one more risk we take by heating up the Earth.

Erdogan has accused journalists from a major media group of "terrorist propaganda", as well as the CEO who is probably safe in Britain.

In some ways this is a good sign. It suggests that Erdogan is getting desperate, and doing things that may make Turkish voters turn against him even more.

Unthoughtful supporters of animals have condemned the plan to protect endangered Australian animals by getting rid of many European-introduced feral cats.

Australia's limits for greenhouse gas emissions have been set so high that they won't cause any reductions.

The "global race to the bottom", predicted by opponents of business-dominated globalization, is hitting Europe hard, eliminating its social protection for workers' rights.

I must point out that making too many humans is a part of the cause of this problem. The current population survives by overusing the Earth's natural systems.