Would You Sacrifice Car and Coffee to Retire in 10 Years?

At least 10 organizations track U.S. police violence, and they’re increasingly partnering with the cops themselves.

For Brandon Anderson, police violence is personal. In 2007, his partner was stopped by an officer in Oklahoma City, falsely accused of stealing a car and beaten to death. Scarred but determined, Anderson now works to prevent others from suffering a similar fate. He launched an app called Raheem last month in Oakland, California, that allows users to self-report instances of police violence they see — where it happened, the officer’s name and details of the incident.

Banning civilian traffic on the only highway connecting Kashmir to the world could rupture India’s connection with the conflict-torn region.

No one asked them, but it was in the name of Kashmir’s people that the Indian government recently introduced a partial ban on civilian traffic along the only highway connecting the Indian-controlled part of the disputed region to the rest of the world. An ironic government order said that “to mitigate the inconvenience to the civilians” it was dedicating two days a week — Sundays and Wednesdays — solely for movement of security forces and banning all civilian traffic on the highway.

The other, equally amusing rationale? Democracy, no less.

The environment, in many ways, is keeping pace with human industrialization. But will it last?

Since humans came out of the trees and started chopping them down to make fire and houses, we’ve removed about 46 percent of the world’s forests. That’s a tragedy for bird habitats and aesthetics alike, but it turns out it’s also a tragedy for humankind.

Forests — along with other plants, soil and oceans — serve as carbon sinks, places where the planet-warming carbon emitted by humans is absorbed and neutralized. In 2018, it was estimated that humans produced about 37 billion tons of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, an all-time high … and an increase of about 60 percent since 1990. Historically, about half of those emissions stayed in the atmosphere while the other half was absorbed into forests and oceans. And it turns out that despite humanity’s skyrocketing emissions the Northern Hemisphere's natural carbon sinks have kept pace with humanity's rising emissions by absorbing increasing amounts of carbon dioxide.