Revealed: Rampant Deforestation of Amazon Driven by Global Greed for Meat.

The new business-supremacy treaty between the EU and Mercosur trade blocks could speed up the deforestation.

How Stonewall Reversed a Long History of Justifying Police Surveillance (and entrapment and jailing) of gays.

Isolated, uninhabited Henderson Island receives tons of plastic deposited by the Pacific Ocean. Scientists visited for two weeks and collected 6 tons to study it.

60% comes from fishing. This accords with reports that most plastic waste in the ocean is from fishing. That should be much easier to eliminate than waste from a billion consumers.

If the fishing was done near Henderson, it was illegal. But this trash could have floated for thousands of miles.

Can You Afford To Be Green When You're Not Rich? I Kept a Diary to Find Out.

The article shows that many forms of conservation are made far more difficult by the fact that society's current pushes people in the other direction.

The most important choice, to reduce your contribution to the ecological footprint of humanity, is not mentioned in the article. It is to choose not to have a child. The writer apparently does not recognize that that was a choice.

The UK privatized applications for student visa renewals. Naturally the company gouges the students, using a dark pattern in which there are supposed to be gratis appointments but in practice they are not available.

This particular work has a peak season in September. In a government office, the staff would focus on this during the peak season, then most would shift to other tasks for the rest or the year. A private business may not have an opportunity to do that. Its staff is less stable than civil servants, and its other contracts come and go.

This adds to the other reasons that government services should never be privatized. Occasionally some government service can simply be eliminated.