The EU has adopted the target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030.

It is an ambitious target, but it lacks firm measures to achieve the goal.

Meanwhile, Australia plans a new policy for boosting fossil fuel investment and holding back growth of renewable energy.

Earthjustice and farmers have sued to block use of 2,4-D herbicide (best known as part of the toxic Agent Orange that the US dropped on Vietnam).

The internet is crawling with misogyny, and any woman doing something controversial is likely to be attacked by posted threats of violence.

The examples cited in this article seem sick and twisted to me, but the worst thing I find in it is the assumption that women who are raped, or even seen semi-nude, have something to be ashamed of. That's the explicit assumption of the Indian rapists that make videos of the act, as well as their victim who was interviewed. She expects people to condemn and shun her if they know she was raped. People who do that are committing the most basic injustice.

We can see this attitude in the firing, by an elite Canadian high school, of a drama teacher because who made porn films in 1970. (She is now 73 years old.)

What, the administrators ask, will today's high school students think from knowing their teacher made porn 45 years ago? Perhaps "Older generations were just like us"? Or perhaps, "Our administration wants women to be weak and susceptible to misogyny"?

US citizens: call on prominent Democrats to support nuclear negotiations with Iran.

New pun in French.