China has quashed the hopes that it would push for cuts in world CO2 emissions.

I guess losing Shanghai and Suzhou is not that important to the rulers of China after all.

Air conditioning is making US cities substantially hotter, leading to more use of air conditioning.

Pakistan's Taliban attacked Karachi airport with suicide bombers and accused the government of using peace negotiations as a sham.

The basis for that accusation seems to be that the government did not cease fire during the talks. But if no cease-fire was agreed on, continuing to fight while negotiating was not dishonest.

Modern urban design and architecture is systematically designed to deny homeless people a place to lie down, so that the callous and successful will be spared the ugly sight of them.

The article also explains how aid-cutting right wing governments develop bureaucratic excuses that systematically refuse homeless people any help in finding a place to sleep. This goes hand in hand with the policies that make so many people homeless.

With Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to protest imprisonment without trial, Israel plans to force-feed them, and cites Guantanamo as an example.

When the US practices torture, it spreads torture around the world.