Sea-floor mining could cause ecological damage like mining on land.

Almost all human beings alive have to breathe dangerously polluted air.

California thugs, "bullies with badges," shot Diante Yarber, an unarmed black man, in a parked car.

They said he drove the car away when they tried to stop him. If so, that was no reason to kill him. They could have found and arrested him on some other occasion.

They also said he rammed a thug car, but others deny this, and his car mysteriously shows no sign of the damage that ramming would have caused. Knowing the MO of thugs, my suspicion is that they made this up.

They hit a passenger, too, and were more interested in interrogating her than in bringing her to the hospital.

Many anti-deforestation activists are being murdered in the Brazilian state of Pará.

I made a joke that the capital of Pará is Paranoia. (After all, the capital of Goias is Goiania.) Sad to say, it seems to be the truth.

The penalty imposed on Wells Fargo is partly for restitution to the customers it defrauded, but how to do this has not been specified, and the bank itself may make most of the decision.