Climate-related local disasters have displaced 20 million people each year for the past decade. The numbers will increase as years pass. By 2030 it could be 50 million a year, and many of them will not be able to return home.

German activists occupied a coal mine and blocked the train tracks to other mines.

US citizens: call on Congress to ban surprise medical bills.

If you call, please spread the word!

Indiana Deliberately Altered Amazon Worker’s Death Record in Effort to Lure [Amazon's] HQ2: Report.

This is an extreme example of the corruption that results when governments bow down to business. Democracy means the state fears the people and business fears the state. When the state fears business, that is plutocracy.

*Revealed: 'monumental' NSW bushfires have burnt 20% of Blue Mountains world heritage area.*

That area is located a short distance west of Sydney. A few years of increasing fires and that area could be entirely gone.

I think I visited Katoomba and played recorder for some wild cockatoos during my first trip to Australia.