*"Double agents": how US cities, tech firms and universities use fossil fuel lobbyists.*

Review of *Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature*.

The UK proposes to develop additional fossil fuel extraction, supposedly for "energy security", but it would make little difference for that.

The way to get energy security is to build electric storage and renewable generation. The real motive for this fossil fuel project is surely to enrich some of the plutocrats that the Tory Party works for.

Why do some orcas nowadays attack boats? The fact is we know nothing about their reasons or what they think about boats.

The special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (Sigar) has reported that *America’s huge, badly-coordinated and politically-driven aid programme in Afghanistan engendered the corruption that undermined its entire mission and turned Afghans away from the western coalition.*