Britons revile the "We can have parties and spread disease" Tories.

It seems they had parties in various official quarters, last year.

40 million Americans have college debt. Millions of them with low incomes keep paying and paying, but the interest they are charged is bigger than the payments. They will spend the rest of their lives crushed by debt.

Columbia University has threatened to fire graduate students who are on strike.

A study finds that (some) tropical forests that have been mostly destroyed regrow quickly, and after 20 years are going strong again. Leaving them alone is better than planting new trees.

I expect that these results vary depending on the location and on what sort of destruction occured. It would be interesting to get more details.

Mining companies want to mine the metals from undersea vents. The total area of these vents is small, and many species live only there. Mining could wipe them out in decades.