TEPCO Blasted for Withholding Data as Fukushima Radiation Levels Soar.

Comparing protection of elephants with prohibition of drugs.

There is a significant difference between the two. Ivory has no physiological effect; if people like owning ivory, that is just an acquired taste, which they could easily learn to change. Nonetheless, the article could be right.

A privatized prison in Idaho covered up its understaffing by fraudulent overbilling.

The million dollar non-fine seems inadequate as a punishment. The company ought to be prosecuted and put in its own prison.

It has been pointed out that one aspect of white privilege is that whites are less likely to be prosecuted for certain crimes than blacks are. By the same criterion, the most privileged class in the US is that of corporations.

Ocean heating seems to have caused grave damage to an old, remote coral reef whose location keeps it safe from other human-caused depredations.

Natural gas leaks a lot more methane, and contributes a lot more to global heating, than was previously believed.