The UK sentences Islamist extremists to longer prison terms than right-wing extremists, for similar crimes. Three times as long, on the average.

The UK does not fully recognize freedom of speech, and some of the crimes in question involve posting extremist opinions and nothing more. I condemn those opinions, but imprisoning people for their opinions is dangerous too.

US pesticide companies have persistently manipulated the media and science to prevent recognition of how dangerous neonicotinoid pesticides are to various kinds of animals.

A constant effort may succeed in protecting the honeybee population, but no one is trying to protect all the wild insects that get exposed to the same pesticides.

The danger may not be limited to insects. If neonicotinoids can cause birth defects in deer, we cannot rule out a priori that they might do so in humans. And since these compounds last for many years, we may be accumulating more of them every year.

*Choking point: how Australia's bushfires have left its citizens struggling for air.*

*Oakland’s Moms 4 Housing Were Evicted by a Giant Corporation That Runs National Home-Flipping Operation.*

There is no reason to allow companies to buy large numbers of houses, and no reason to allow a company to conceal who its owners are. In particular, there is no reason to allow a company with concealed owners to buy real estate at all.

*Beetles and fire kill dozens of 'indestructible' giant sequoia trees.*

Mature, healthy trees are proving vulnerable in ways that didn't happen before.