From 2005 to 2011, sea level rose around 2.4mm per year (about 1/10 inch), and it was mainly due to melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica.

That melting will surely speed up considerably over this century, but we don't know how much.

The TSA has eliminated X-ray scanners. The article is confused, and focuses on certain software for displaying a certain kind of simplified picture of the passenger. However, elsewhere it is clear that switching to this software required removal off all the X-ray scanners.

It's a good thing, because those scanners are potentially dangerous. How bizarre that we could not get them removed because of danger but could get them removed because of a nudity taboo.

US citizens: call on the US Department of Agriculture to ban field trials of genetically engineered crops.

Jellyfish are overrunning the world's seas. Global heating and overfishing are part of the cause.

Puffins in Maine are in trouble because there are no longer herring in the area to feed to their chicks. The problem may not be limited to Maine, and global heating may be the cause.

In a symbolic attack on journalism and the public's right to know, the court barred stenographers hired with donations from Bradley Manning's trial.