Saudi censorship is suppressing knowledge about MERS, which has killed half the people known to have contracted it. As a result, 3 million pilgrims to Mecca could get exposed to it and take it home with them.

A 165-sq-mile forest fire in California is threatening to contaminate a reservoir for San Francisco as well as to destroy power lines that bring electricity there.

The UK government's demand to destroy the Guardian's files was a direct attack against the foundation of democracy: freedom of the press to report how the state treats the people.

The lesson of Fukushima: nuclear reactors can explode. And there are dozens of reactors in the US which use the same design.

The US is running into stiff opposition in the Trance Pacific Partnership negotiations.

Apparently the other countries' negotiators are not entirely in a trance yet.