Turkey planned for zero forest fires this year, and failed to carry out the insufficient preparations and purchases it had budgeted for.

Here's some information on political obstacles to humanitarian aid in and near Tigray.

Some chemicals in sunscreen kill coral (and various other animals found in reefs) even in minuscule amounts such as 60 parts per trillion. However, if we want to save coral reefs, the main thing we must do is curb global heating, and specifically the emission of CO2, which makes the ocean more acid and will eventually kill all coral.

*Fears over lax US standards prompts bill on chemical safety of beauty products.*

*The problem isn't "inflation." It’s that most Americans aren’t paid enough.*

This reflects the political power of the rich, who use their influence to set up systems to concentrate wealth. Concentrating wealth works by directing more of the total income to rich people and companies (whose shares are mainly owned by rich people), and that means less of the total income to the non-rich.

The misogyny of Afghanistan is horrible; the Taliban make it even worse.

It might have been possible to defeat the Taliban by supporting a radical secularist movement and army like Rojava. But there was no way to do that after putting Afghanistan in the hands of the not-quite-so-radical anti-Taliban rulers.