Palau will ban most sunscreens because they contain chemicals that are damaging the coral in the lagoon.

Manifest global heating effects: heatwaves in the UK last more than twice as many days as they did 50 years ago.

Bolsonaro says he will align Brazil with the Israeli occupation of Palestine by moving Brazil's embassy to Jerusalem.

ISTR that Bolsonaro is an evangelical. Many evangelicals think of Jews as their allies in the end of the world … up to the last stage, in which the Jews are to be bullied into converting to Christianity.

It is possible in principle for Jerusalem to be shared as the capital of Israel and the capital of Palestine, but Netanyahu would never tolerate such a just solution.

Hawaii's supreme court approved construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea.

I support construction of the telescope. Advances in astronomy serve all of humanity. The claim that "the whole mountain is sacred because we have rituals in various places" is too weak to justify blocking anything. No religion merits the level of political power that is being claimed here.

The EPA's pages on climate mayhem were taken down a year ago for an "update". Apparently that is Republican-speak for "deletion".