In the year that President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris accord and downplayed global warming as a security threat, the US received a harsh reminder of the perils of the rise in the planet’s temperature (or not): a destructive rash of hurricanes, fires and floods.
Just days after we showed satellite images which reportedly confirmed Chinese vessels were trading oil with North Korean ships in a blatant violation of UN sanctions, South Korea said Friday that it was holding a Hong Kong flagged ship suspected of doing just that.