Report from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza: around 2500 people remain there, and Israeli troops that surround it shoot when people try to enter or leave. Patients in intensive care are likely to die because there is no electricity. The hospital also has no food and no water, so other patients may die too.

The US Supreme Court has adopted a code of ethics, but is it any good?

People are criticizing this code on the grounds that they don't trust the right-wing justices to heed it. That is a valid point, but under public pressure they might heed it. That leads to a second question: supposing they do heed this code, is it adequate?

For instance, what does it say about the situation where a justice has received gifts from a rich person and then a case arises in which the giver has interests at stake, or political views? If it doesn't call for recusal in that situation, then it winks at corruption.

Orbán has established an Un-Hungarian Activities commission to investigate and pressure human rights groups and journalistic organizations that get foreign support.

It will also investigate foreign support to political parties. That does not seem dangerous to me, because it seems proper to me to prohibit foreign donations to political parties.

An indigenous local police force fights gold mining in Ecuador's rainforest. They use modern drones to discover the miners and to record video to prove in court that they were mining.

Since "biodegradable" plastic doesn't biodegrade in nature, and since it is not feasible to clean all the microplastics out of the ocean, we must redesign our production and use of plastics to avoid filling nature with them.