Some possible food packaging contaminants are probably not dangerous because they occur also in traditional foods.

As I recall, the claim that was made is not that "each of these chemicals is poisoning you," but rather, "some of them might be poisoning you, and this ought to be studied."

Protests in Venezuela fit a long pattern of US destabilization campaigns.

The shortages and the general violence that plague Venezuela are real. They don't justify US destabilization, but they provoke real opposition.

Global heating is projected to increase annual flood damage costs in Europe to around 30 billion dollars a year by 2050.

After that it will get much worse.

It is impossible to remove elephants' tusks and let them return to a normal life. That puts a crimp in the idea of farming elephants for ivory.

UK academics condemn the attempt to turn them into visa police.