"Smart" devices typically collect more data about their useds than is required to implement their features.

As usual, for "smart" read "snoop". Instead of getting a "smart device", be smart yourself — and reject them.

New York City is considering a law to save migrating birds from colliding with illuminated glass towers.

*Antarctica warming much faster than models predicted.*

This suggest the rising sea will come for you sooner than previously predicted.

Comments on France's ban of the abaya in schools, from several points of view.

Fish around the world are generally getting smaller. Within a given species, the population tends to be smaller than before. Within an ecosystem, larger species tend to be replaced with smaller species.

The article asserts that this is the consequence of what it calls the "Anthropocene" period, but I call the "Obscene" period.