Plastic pollution in waterways is projected to double by 2030 and triple by 2040.

In the last days of filming the movie Rust, people in the crew complained of violations of safety rules. Eventually some union members walked out, and the prouction replaced them with non-union workers but did not fix the safety problems. This seems to be related to the death that occured on the set.

Russia has installed censorship boxes in many Russian ISPS and gatewys. It can block specific pages of sites, and it can also slow them down.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reminds Americans not to give up on the fight for a real climate/relief bill. It's not over yet.

Australia and Japan are lobbying to weaken the world's climate defense plans, alongside OPEC countries such as Salafi Arabia.

If we had all known in the 1970s how dangerous Middle East oil would be to the Earth's ecosphere, maybe world powers could have made an agreement to keep most of it in the ground.