France is taking a small step to reduce short flights. The world needs to do a lot more to reduce the amount of flying. A substantial tax on airplane fuel would be effective.

A Minnesota cop shot and killed Daunte Wright, a black man, at the wheel of his car.

The cop thought she was shooting a taser, and when she saw she had shot a bullet instead, she was shocked by what she had done. She has resigned.

*Facebook knew of Honduran president’s manipulation campaign — and let it continue for 11 months.*

We may have 3 feet of sea-level rise by 2050. Areas in the US and other countries where tens of millions of people live will be uninhabitable. And it won't stop at 3 feet.

In addition to curbing CO2 emissions, we need to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Large-scale engineering for pulling CO2 out of the air are preferable to attempts to reduce the sunlight that hits the Earth's surface because they can prevent ocean acidification (which could wipe out entire phyla) as well as global heating.

*Boris Johnson’s ‘chumocracy’ is using Covid crisis to sell off health service by stealth, says Sir David King (former chief scientist of the NHS).*