Trees grow faster as they get bigger.

This means that cutting down old forests and replacing them with new tree plantations — as the UK government wants to do — would require the new plantations to be far larger.

Global heating at work: signs of spring in January in the UK.

Kurdish protesters leaving the UK for Paris were robbed of their cash by the border guards who accused them of planning to give it to the PKK.

The is a rebel group; I don't know whether it is terrorist. Banning contributions to the PKK is legitimate, but taking away small amounts of cash like this on unproved suspicion is gratuitously nasty. The PKK would be on its knees if it depended on that funding mechanism.

Even US farmers are starting to reject GMOs.

In principle, genetic engineering could be great for agriculture. But not when it's developed by companies that are always seeking opportunities to cut corners on safety.

Drone surveillance of the US "border" goes beyond what the US government says.

The "border" area stretches a considerable distance from each frontier or coast, and includes the homes of most Americans.