A former insurance company executive says the US needs Medicare for All; the so-called "compromise" would enable private insurance companies to "skim the cream" of patients that don't need much medical care, while dumping only the expensive patients onto public funds.

Costa Rica's cloud forest is on the way to being wiped out. Thousands of species that are endemic to the cloud forest could face extinction.

Cruel and unjust as Venezuelan president Maduro is, the opposition is likely to be worse. They are allied with Bolsonaro, who openly proposes to commit similar injustices, which means he is likely to go even further.

Investors whose portfolios add up to 8 trillion dollars have endorsed divestment from fossil fuels, and it is starting to hamper the fossil fuel companies.

A few years ago I read that US fossil fuel companies are having trouble hiring staff.

Johnson & Johnson discovered that some lots of Baby Powder contained trace amounts of asbestos. Even these trace amounts are enough to cause cancer in some of the users, The company covered this up.

I wonder if the same is true of all talcum powder.