* Analysis of satellite observations show [Amazon] forest is losing stability, with "profound" [I'd say disastrous] global implications.*

*Don't let high energy prices derail UK green agenda, say climate experts.*

The same conclusion applies world-wide. Global heaing effects will cause disaster on an unprecedentd scale -- perhaps a hundred times the casualties of World War II, Predictions of numbers harmed tend to work bny adding the various forms of harm we can project into the future. They do not take account of the still-unknown ways these harms will interact.

The Manhattan District Attorney concluded that the evidence for fraud in the Trump Organization was not strong enough to bring charges against the wrecker personally.

On fighting right-wing book bans in US schools.

During the era of leaded gasoline, many American children's brain development was damaged by lead that they breathed in. A study estimates that half the adults in the US as of 2015 had been affected by this.

The high street crime level that began in the 60s and ended in the 90s has been meticulously traced to lead in the air. Although tetraethyllead was added to gasoline starting in the 1920s, the amount of automobile traffic was much lower then; lead poisoning of the populace did not become a significant problem in the US until after World War II.

Fortunately, we are not spreading lead through gasoline any more. But other sources of lead poisoning, such as lead pipes for water and lead paint, are still being gradually removed.

Last year, Boston was subsidizing the replacement of lead water supply pipes running from the water mains to individual buildings.

The impact of lead fell most heavily on disprivileged groups, for the usual reason: people with more money can afford to live in places where they are safe from these problems. I can't blame anyone for trying to do that, but the state's responsibility includes protecting everyone from such problems, once the problems are known.