An inquest in the UK ruled that a girl was killed by a high level of air pollution.

This may spur efforts to reduce pollution.

*Facebook Gets Rich Off Of Ads That Rip Off Its Users.*

I must disagree with the first example, though: it is prudish to consider an ad harmful on account of showing adolescents dancing. Was there is something else bad about those ads that the article fails to explain?

EFF: Youtube's automatic copyright filter has punished fair use to the point where people have learned not to even try it. In effect, it has taken that right away.

To fix this, we need to eliminate the relevant parts of the DMCA.

I wish they would not refer to works of art and communication as "content". That term disparages all such works.

*Restore UK woodland by letting trees plant themselves, says report.*

I have wondered for years why it is necessary to plant trees. Trees produce lots of seeds and have mechanisms to disperse them. Why isn't that enough?

This is a serious question. Since I am not an expert, I will not try to claim that there is no need to plant forests, but I think it is an important question why we do need that.

Half a million slaves are forced to pick cotton in Xinjiang, China.

Keep in mind that Uzbekistan also forces slaves to pick cotton, perhaps even more of them.

What Uzbekistan does is not an excuse for China, and what China does is not an excuse for Uzbekistan. Countries should refuse to buy cotton from those countries until they stop using forced labor.