*Australia's bush fire season has grown by almost a month in 40 years, study finds.*

We have a big increase in wildfires, and the times of year that they happen, in the US, Canada, Spain, and Siberia

Charges were dropped against the Michigan officials involved in poisoning the water in Flint.

For information about the poisoning and its causes, see these notes.

The charges were dropped because of a fundamental irregularity in procedure. I wonder if the charges can be refiled in the proper way.

Turkey demands that Sweden extradite "terrorist supporters" including those of the PKK, or it will block Sweden's accession to NATO at some later point.

Sweden recently "designated" the PKK as a "terrorist organization" without a trial. That's always an injustice, and this illustrates it. That wrong is practiced by many countries including the US. countries including the US.

It would be an additional wrong to do this and then suddenly start to extradite people who had previously been accepted as refugees. Sweden must at least give those people time to leave.

Has Sweden has also "designated" Rojava, the state of the Syrian Kurds, as "a terrorist organization"? I would think so. I fear that Turkey demands extradition of people for working with and supporting Rojava and its army, which is a noble cause, and I fear that Sweden will eventually do that.

New York State is drawing up a new gun permit law, to replace the one that the Supreme Court overturned.

Planet roasters continue making totally unreal claims about energy costs to try to sidetrack renewable generation and promote nuclear power.