Many oil businesses in the US continue collapsing.

This seems like a good sign. However, I suspect that some of the bigger oil companies are using their bailout money to buy these bankrupt businesses at rock-bottom prices.

The early abandonment of oil wells is a good thing, because it means that the oil still left to extract will remain in the ground. However, a closed well is a source of pollution.

Naturally the Republicans want to give the oil executives more billions to take home before those companies finally disappear, rather that fund cleaning up the wells that will continue to spread toxins.

To keep the well pumping for some more years would not reduce the problem of dealing with it. If it were shut down in 2025 instead of now, that would only postpone the burden which the drilling of the well imposed on society.

The giant Paraná river delta wetlands are on fire. They seem to be abnormally dry.

Various causes may be at work, going back in various ways to human activity.

A congressional hearing got testimony from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, and concluded with the committee chair's saying that these companies need to be broken up and regulated.

Splitting them up could be pretty simple, supposing one overcomes their lobbying power. But a simple way would not really fix the problems. That requires restructuring their operations, and how to do that is not so obvious.

Tiny amphipod crustaceans break up microplastics into minute nanoplastics smaller than typical cells.

Nanoplastics could be more harmful or less, to various species of life; only investigation will tell. The reason to suspect they are more harmful is that they have more surface area per given volume, which could mean that toxic chemicals would escape from them at a higher rate.

An interview with Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director of B'Tselem. That is the Israeli organization that campaigns to respect the human rights of Palestinians.