FFII contends that the departure of Britain from the EU has invalidated the "unitary patent" agreement, and this offers a chance to kill it permanently.

This is important because that deal would make the European Patent Office effectively autonomous regarding the question of which ideas are patentable — and it would certainly take advantage of that to rule that computational ideas are patentable.

This offers one more chance to try to save software from patents in Europe. FFII will campaign to do this, and I will offer my help.

Locusts in East Africa threaten 25 million people with hunger.

Utah Republicans have become aware all of a sudden of harm global heating can do.

"Neglected" tropical diseases have harmed hundreds of millions of people. We are on the verge of eradicating some of them, but if we don't push on and reach that point, they will spread again.

Urban trees and hedges absorb air pollution. They also soak up rain, thus reducing flooding.