Global heating is enabling sea urchins to wipe out kelp forests and the many other species that depend on them.

Most large sea animals start out as tiny larvae which need a place to hide. Coral reefs and kelp are very important to shelter the larva.

Vladimir Timoshenko was sentenced to prison for "insulting officials" in an internet post. This demonstrates the tyranny of the Russian regime.

Imprisoning people for insulting someone is tyranny.

Turkey threatens to send millions of refugees to Europe if Syrian Kurds are allowed to participate in peace talks.

This means either there will be no meaningful peace talks, or Turkey and maybe other involved countries will try to crush the Kurds.

Toxic chemicals used in nail salons make the staff really sick. Simple equipment, provided by the EPA, can protect them.

Argentine activists advocate a law to allow people to testify against their parents. Some want to testify that their fathers confessed to helping murder dissidents during the military dictatorship.

I would like those murderers to be convicted, but should it be possible to convict a person of a crime based on a witness's report that the defendant confessed to per? It seems to me that that would make it easy to frame anyone for any crime: just testify "he confessed to me that he did it."