Employers in California are calling US immigration thugs to grab and deport their employees that have reported violations of labor laws. California has responded by kicking immigration thugs out of the labor commission offices.

The US government has recognized that seismic blasting to search for oil in the Gulf of Mexico harm large numbers of whales, dolphins, and other sea mammals.

Can genetic engineering be used to preserve ecosystems?

I don't think eradicating an intrusive species from an area with a gene drive is significantly ethically different from doing so with traps. For safety, there must be multiple levels of safety systems to prevent the gene drive from spreading off the target area.

However, I think any scheme that involves modifying large numbers of species will not be feasible for a long time. For instance, the idea of genetically modifying coral to cope with heat and acidity is far fetched, because preserving the ecosystem would require modifying all the coral species and varieties there. How many coral species are found in any given reef? Can we be sure we have identified them all? It doesn't seem feasible.

"In seven months [January through July], we emitted more carbon than the oceans and forests can absorb in a year, we caught more fish, felled more trees, harvested more, and consumed more water than the Earth was able to produce in the same period."

India is losing the secular, tolerant and free society that its founders hoped for.

The current ruling party is related to the religious fanatical movement that assassinated Gandhi.