Shell abandoned plans to drill for oil in the Alaskan Arctic this year.

That delays the damage but we need to block it entirely.

Tony B'liar has endorsed the Egyptian military government.

It's true that Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood trampled Egyptians' human rights. That's what Islamists stand for. However, the coup government has gone much further in this harm.

Israel is blocking Gaza's wastewater plant from operating, which is causing further pollution of Gaza's aquifer.

I guess the plan is to make Gazans get sick and die.

Right-wing "marriage promotion" programs are an excuse for shafting the poor, and do nothing to reduce the obstacle that make poor people's marriages fail: poverty itself.

The article also shows that ease of access to divorce has nothing to do with successful marriages.

As for Ross Douthat's idea of trying to force women to have babies so that they might feel it necessary to get married, it's not only a nonsequitur, it is perverse. We need fewer babies to be born.

Global heating may be responsible for making many species of fish smaller, up to 1/3 smaller than 38 years ago.

Intense fishing may be responsible, because there is usually a size limit on allowable catch; that selects for fish that become mature with a smaller size.