An extremely strange snail species, found only at a few deep-sea thermal vents in one region, is endangered, and could be wiped out by deep-sea mining in that region.

*Spiraling inflation, crops left in the field and travel chaos: 10 reasons [leaving the EU] has been disastrous for Britain.*

I dislike the word "Brexit" so I don't use it.

A new HIV-prevention drug could wipe out that disease, over time, except that it is too expensive for the people that need it.

The heat in Europe is reducing the power output of some nuclear power plants. They are cooled by water from rivers, and it is too hot to cool them enough.

Umberto Eco explains why the Italian term "facsism" could generalize to fit many different repressive tyrannies.