Australia's Northern Territory will ban mining on the sea bottom.

What makes the practice harmful is the way it is done. I think there will be a safe way to mind the sea bottom in the future when robots can identify valuable nodules and pick them up individually without touching anything else.

Australia has rejected expansion of a coal mine, to avoid local toxicity.

This coal is a special kind, for making steel — not just to get heat. It will still be needed after civilization decarbonizes. It will have to be part of the emissions that nature absorbs.

Nonetheless, it looks like Big Coal is losing its power over Australia. If so, that is good for civilization's survival.

Biden said he would end American support for "offensive operations" in Yemen by Salafi Arabia.

The US will continue selling arms for this.

The deportation thugs have cancelled a deportation flight so that the people to be deported can testify in court hearings.

In other words, their legal rights are significant once again.

*Mexico: ex-governor arrested for allegedly ordering torture of journalist.*