Links

How big business elites have funded and won political rights for corporations
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-big-business-elites-have-funded-and-won-political-rights-for-corporations/2018/02/23/1c9c7c58-069b-11e8-b48c-b07fea957bd5_story.html?utm_term=.c15411b5604e
https://www.npr.org/2018/03/26/596989664/how-american-corporations-had-a-hidden-civil-rights-movement

Europeans are facing more frequent extreme weather as the planet warms. Floods and big landslides have quadrupled and extreme heat waves and crop-damaging droughts have doubled since 1980, with a sharp spike in the last five years, according to the European Academies' Science Advisory Council's latest extreme weather update.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21032018/europe-climate-change-extreme-weather-data-floods-heatwave-drought-oceans-easac-report


Over the next two decades, as many as 11 states are predicted to see the average annual area burned increase by 500 percent, according to a recent study.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2289216/20-years-wildfires-will-be-six-times-larger


Food Crises Intensifying Because of Climate Change and Conflict
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/food-crises-intensifying-because-of-climate-change-and-conflict


The second-lowest winter sea ice extent on record has isolated Bering Sea native communities and put coastal residents at the mercy of storms and waves.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23032018/arctic-sea-ice-record-low-maximum-warm-winter-indigenous-coastal-communities-bering-strait-alaska-hunting-whaling-climate-change


More than 130 people could have been exposed to novichok
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/26/130-people-feared-exposed-to-novichok-in-spy-attack-says-pm


When towns lose their newspapers, disease detectives are left flying blind
https://www.statnews.com/2018/03/20/news-deserts-infectious-disease/


Being frugal is for the rich
https://theoutline.com/post/3840/frugalwoods-frugality-millennials?zd=1&zi=rx3zq66c


A teen said no to an ‘arranged’ marriage, investigators say. Her parents threw hot oil on her.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/25/a-teen-said-no-to-an-arranged-marriage-investigators-say-her-parents-threw-hot-oil-on-her/?utm_term=.942b8f2ed83d


Have We Been Denying Our Human Nature for Four Hundred Years?
[Good article, except for its anti-science comments. Science certainly has benefits, as well as being very interesting. Eg., much lower infant & child mortality. I see no reason why scientific knowledge and and humane culture cannot co-exist.]
https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/have-we-been-denying-our-human-nature-for-four-hundred-years/


There’s Trouble Brewing For Beer in a Warming World
http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/theres-trouble-brewing-for-beer