The Taliban have forced female TV reporters to cover their faces on the air. This is on top of prohibiting women's education beyond secondary school.

It is disgusting, but I don't see what we can do to weaken their grip on Afghanistan.

The world urgently needs to cut emissions of methane and other short-term greenhouse gases.

*More than 120 civil society groups from around the world on Thursday warned that nations have only six months left to meet a collective commitment made at last year's United Nations Climate Conference to end public financing of fossil fuels.*

*Globalisation of food production has left millions hungry.*

We must stop optimizing food production for efficiency and profit and bring robustness back into the system.

We must also have fewer children so as to reduce the future population.

The FCC opened the doors to political spam text messages to cell phones. It should shut the doors again.

The Putin forces are sending tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians to special makeshift jails and subjecting them to interrogation with beatings.

Some are them released after a few days. Others have been held for weeks. It's not clear what happens to those that the Putin forces determine feel a loyalty to Ukraine, or have been soldiers. They may be sent to Russia, they may be shot.