Why do poor people suffer more from heat and pollution? It's not only that rich people compete for more comfortable neighborhoods. It's also that they use their influence to direct municipal investment, making parks, beaches and trees on the sidewalls, to the areas where they live.

And direct highway construction and chemical plants into the places where poor people live.

*Louisiana woman carrying [totally unviable] skull-less fetus forced to travel to New York for an abortion.*

*Health groups call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.*

Bird flu has spread to additional bird species, so it has become endemic all year in parts of Europe.

It has evolved to infect some mammals too, which means infecting humans may not be far away.

The Sizewell B nuclear power plant, that the UK is paying exorbitantly to construct by the seaside, could be dangerous in the future as sea-level rise brings the sea up to it.

It is a terrible waste of money that ought to be spent on efficient decarbonization — with renewable energy.