HSBC hid money for people accused of serious crimes.

Global heating will give the US decade-long droughts, worse than anything seen for 1000 years. Droughts such as wiped out entire civilizations in the past.

California's drought is already the worst in 1200 years.

Israel has rejected responsibility for killing Rachel Corrie.

Humans put 8 million tons of plastic into the world's oceans each year, which fills them with pollution, and without management efforts this could increase by ten times in the next decade.

That would be something like 1 kg of floating plastic for each 3kg of fish. But even worse is the plastic that the fish eat.

The massive expansion in Americans' prisons contributed little to the decrease in crime rates of the past two decades.

US imprisonment does tremendous human damage. Whether it harms the economy depends on who you include in "the economy". It may be good for the plutocrats in general. since some of them profit from prisons or employ prisoners as slave labor, and the rest consider many Americans superfluous. Prisons (which tend to kill prisoners who get sick) may be their method of choice to dispose of the superfluous.