Saboteur of the Interior Bernhardt, a former lobbyist for fossil fuel companies, is still working for them. He just proposed to reduce the royalties that oil companies must pay for risking a big spill in the Caribbean.

Farmers have killed 40% of the pigs in China in an attempt to contain African swine fever. This has resulted in a world-wide shortage of pork.

Since the disease keeps spreading, the shortage could easily get much worse.

Perhaps what we need to do is assure that pigs don't eat scraps of pig. That is how we stopped the spread of mad cow disease, which can also infect humans.

Congress has passed a bill authorizing personal sanctions on Chinese officials on account of the repression in Xinjiang.

I would have been inclined to suppose that China would shrug this off, but apparently it really bothers the rulers.

New Zealand's government will henceforth make it standard practice to consider the effect on global heating of all major decisions.

This is necessary, but no substitute for taking action to reduce emissions quickly.

Australia has clamped its foot on sick refugees. When the refugees that Australia has dumped into Papua New Guinea and Nauru get sick, they will no longer be able to get treatment in Australia. Instead, they will get only whatever treatment Papua New Guinea and Nauru can give them.

Nauru effectively excludes the press, so the world may not even find out when those refugees get sick, or when they die of curable diseases.