Honolulu shut down its main source of water because of contamination with jet fuel.

When the Navy stopped pumping water from that area, because its water was contaminated, the result was to direct the flow towards Honolulu's well and contaminate that well's water.

*'Global Empire of the US Christian Right': Dark Money Fuels Attacks on Abortion Rights Worldwide*

Brazil passed a law to create a compulsory license to patents that obstruct protection from Covid-19, but Bolsonaro vetoed it; the Senate can override, but it has failed to do so.

It is not clear to me how this law would enable vaccine manufacturers in Brazil to get access to the trade secrets of making the vaccines. One of the supposed reasons for the patent system is to procure the publication of details in patent applications -- but that no longer has the intended results. Patentholders publish the minimum they can get away with, while keeping the rest of the details secret.

*Winter heatwave breaks records in four US states.*

Hotter winters has harmful effects. It can mean less snow or ice remains to fill rivers in the spring. It can enable pests to survive and multiply, which used to live somewhere warmer.

*Poland plans to set up [a centralized digital] register of pregnancies to report miscarriages.*

When women have miscarriages, the state might suspect them of having had an abortion. Some US states have prosecuted women based on discovering that they had miscarriages, and some Latin American countries as well.