Giant Asian hornets are invading North America. They are not much danger to humans, but can devastate insect species, including bees.

*'Here's a bed sheet, make a parachute!' Republicans say, pushing us out of a plane.*

San Francisco's precautions against Covid-19 forced homeless people out of shelters and closed the agencies they depended on. For some, that was fatal.

*US south-west in grip of historic 'megadrought', research finds.* As the fires increase, the water runs out.

There are natural fluctuations but global heating is steadily increasing the baseline. This will get worse and worse unless we curb global heating. Eventually many of today's farms and many of today's people will no longer be able to exist in that region. By and by, there will be nowhere else for them either. If you have children now, that's the future you condemn them to. Please spare them that future by not having children.

Why did Covid-19 spread much more in Lombardy than in other parts of Italy? Partial privatization of hospitals, and letting short-term business interests influence public health policy, are suspected.