The coal company government in Australia says it will cancel many research projects in clean energy and conservation.

Also it will stop concerning itself with how coal mines pollute water.

Anything at all for the coal companies.

Now that the Endangered Species Act has enabled the recovery of the wolf population in parts of the US, the US government has decided to let hunters wipe them out again.

The return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park was not enough to enable willows and beavers to return. The problem is, each one has trouble surviving if the other is not present.

Ukraine is starting to consider a federal approach to restore peace in the eastern region.

Egypt has disappeared Abdullah Elshamy, an al-Jazeera journalist who has been imprisoned most of a year without charge.

The US also holds prisoners never charged with a crime who are on hunger strike, and tortures them every day.

US women die in childbirth at three times the rate in Britain, due to lack of prenatal care, and government interference with abortion and birth control.

Abortion is considerably safer for the woman than childbirth. Forcing large numbers of poor women to go through childbirth when they wanted an abortion will kill a substantial number of them. But not most of them.

Most of them will begin raising a child they did not want and can't afford to take care of — which is going to cause lots of suffering.