Released from UK Jail, 79-year-old Peace Activist Vows to Keep Protesting.

Global heating caused by methane generated by a runaway organism might have caused the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period.

Now another runaway organism is producing greenhouse gases and is on the way to causing another mass extinction.

A union in Australia has been fined a million dollars for blockading construction sites for days.

Meanwhile, companies that break laws get away with slaps on the wrist, or get the law changed to please them. When officials say, "We must enforce the law" to punish the workers, they pretend they are being even-handed.

When the law degrades into a scheme to help the rich crush the non-rich, that justifies the non-rich to break the law to fight back.

The head of the World Bank talks about the need to help renewable energy.

However, when he talks of a "price for carbon" that presumes emissions trading, which is not a reliable system as a carbon tax would be.

Meanwhile, the World Bank is funding giant fossil fuel projects. The first thing it should do is stop that.

Israel is harassing tours that go to observe the Israeli colony in the middle of the Palestinian city of Hebron.