Remotely supervised use of prescribed abortion pills can make abortions safer and more accessible.

Taking account of externalities, wind power is the cheapest form of generation in Europe.

Coal costs more than double.

Computerized recognition of people's voices is being employed on a large scale.

I don't mind if bank customers can use this authenticate themselves to the bank. What worries me is that it can also be used to track people.

In Japan, right-wing extremists with support of officials in the ruling party call for persecution of Korean residents, and have launched a campaign of threats against journalists that cover Japan's war crimes.

The Korean residents of Japan are descendants of Koreans forcibly taken to work in Japan when Korea was under Japanese rule. Those alive today were born in Japan, but in Japan that does not give them citizenship.

Naturalization in Japan is not like naturalization in the US; it requires denying one's previous identity and trying to act totally Japanese. These people of Korean descent might be willing to get Japanese citizenship, but they don't want to deny their identity.

The sea level rise of the past century is a record for 6000 years. (That is when the melting of the ice age ice sheets finished.)

Even if we stop pumping out greenhouse gas, the Earth will continue getting hotter for quite some time due to the greenhouse gas we have already pumped out. That's ignoring the possibility that positive feedback effects will release more. And it will take centuries for the effect of that heat to finish melting all the ice it is going to melt.

We will have to lower the greenhouse gas level substantially below the present level to get the ice to stop melting.