Common Dreams Latest Arctic Report Card finds that region's temperatures continue upward climb twice as fast as global temperature increase. Story here.
NewScientist A major menace looms over us. In 2017, many more people could begin dying from common bacterial infections. Story here. A "confined animal feeding operation." Wikimedia Commons photo.
The Washington Post Scientists Thursday provided a global quantification of one of the most pervasive, but least recognized, ways that humans are marring the coherence of the natural world — by building endless numbers of roads. Story here. A logging road in the UK. Richard Webb