Dooms

"Very, very dangerous" giant underwater volcano found off Indonesia, 4,600m high and 50 km at its base.

Resistance to malaria drug growing, experts warn.

Road accidents have overtaken malaria as the leading cause of preventable deaths in developing countries. In five years time, if nothing is done, traffic accidents will be the biggest single cause of premature deaths for children aged 5 to 14.

Climate change "kills 300,000 every year"

Update
But there is hope yet:

Gay penguins rear adopted chick. Perhaps I should be depressed that this is even regarded as news, depressed that the zoo and the BBC put inverted commas round "gay" but in view of the torrent of hatred and oppression that usually flows unchecked, this is mildly cheering - cheering that the zoo for all their scare quotes (which might just be bet-hedging for less tolerant customers) seem fairly enlightened, and cheering that it seems to be reported in like vein. Roll on the day when this sort of thing isn't news because it's unremarkable, and when humans no longer have to refer to animals to seek legitimacy for human behaviour because humans are finally accepted for themselves.