The drought in southern Madagascar has made it impossible to grow food. People eat things with no food value just to fill their stomachs.

If this is indeed the result of global heating, it will get worse and worse — just as it will in many other parts of the world, if we don't stop the heating.

Putin is planning to shut down the organization Memorial, which documents repression of dissidents in the Soviet Union.

We used to condemn Hitler and Nazis, but now that's considered insufficient. Imitating Hitler as mockery is now treated as a violation of taboo, reason for someone to be shunned.

This reminds me of the 1942 US propaganda movie, To Be Or Not To Be, which features a fictional Polish Hitler-impersonator. He is such a capable impersonator that he can fool even Germans, which proves useful for fighting them — in a comedy, at least.

Director Ernst Lubitsch was a Jew born in Germany, and he must have thought of Hitler as the worst of enemies. But he saw no wrong in presenting a Hitler-impersonator, if that would help to defeat Hitler.

Biden is about to hold an auction of oil leases for sea bottom in the Gulf of Mexico. Climate defenders urge him to cancel the auction.

A substantial fraction of nitrogenous fertilizer is converted into NO2, a powerful greenhouse gas. Making it releases methane. We need to use much less fertilizer.

Another fraction of the fertilizer runs off into lakes and seas, where it creates toxic blooms and dead zones.