Global heating is making Tasmania dry up and burn. 3% of its land area has burned in the past few weeks.

Over this century, its unique forests will disappear, and many of their species driven extinct. Sooner or later fires will spread so fast that many of the inhabitants will be killed.

Guaidó says he will sell Venezuela's oil reserves to foreigners. That's why the bully is applying economic sanctions.

Maduro denounces foreign support for Guaidó as a "gringo plot" to steal Venezuela's wealth.

He's right, of course. The bully cares no more about freedom for Venezuelans than he does about freedom for Americans. It is all about hegemony for the masters he serves.

This means that Venezuela has a choice between a dictator that is making people hungry, and a bunch of foreign thieves.

I hope they find a way to create another choice.

"A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed," even if we curb emissions now.

That means 2 billion people's water supply is endangered.

Attacking Iran would bog the US down in a long war, but that doesn't mean the bullshitter and his idiots won't do it.

There is a proposal to design "smart" listening devices to check whether their "owners" are breaking laws, and report this.