Mercury pollution damages the brains of songbirds.

Massive Mongolian Mine Endangers Nomads' Water, Way of Life.

However, the bigger culprit is global heating, which is hitting Mongolia more than most of the world, and drying it up.

The ACLU won a legal victory: the Ferguson thugs are not allowed to arrest protesters just for standing still.

Children of East Asian (mainly Chinese) immigrants excel even in mediocre Australian schools.

This suggests that the root cause of the high educational success of various East Asian countries may not be particularly due to how the schools there are run.

Uber plans to do away with human cab drivers.

It would be easy for a non-plutocratic government to prohibit this, and that's what every country ought to do, unless/until every person gets an adequate basic income so people don't need to be employed.