* California, Arizona and Nevada strike deal with US government to take about 13% less water from drought-stricken [Colorado] river.*

This will surely slow the drying of the Colorado river. Will it be enough to prevent that? We don't know. It depends on whether the atmospheric rivers that now plague California bring enough water to the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountains to keep the Colorado flowing. If not, the trend of increased aridity in the region may continue.

*UK study of 1948 Israeli massacre of Palestinian village reveals mass grave sites.*

Wikipedia reports that denial of that massacre has gone as far as a libel lawsuit against an Israeli who wrote about it.

*Toxins hidden in plastics are the industry' dirty secret — recycling is not the answer.* At least, not recycling at our current stage of knowledge.

But then, most kinds of plastic objects can't be recycled at all.

The London thug department has announced, all of a sudden, that it won't answer emergency calls about mental crises.

This implements, by surprise, half the goal of "Defund the Police": to stop sending armed thugs to deal with mental crises. However, it's only half of the goal of "Defund the Police".

The other half goal was to send other personnel to respond to those calls -- personnel trained in de-escalation and calming people down, rather than in violence. This surprise announcement makes no provision for anyone to do this job. It can't be the ambulance service: they are underfunded, and often arrive so late that the patient is ready for burial.

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Increased CO2 in the upper atmosphere makes it cool and contract. This enables dangerous space junk to remain longer in low Earth orbit, and undermines the slowly recovering ozone layer.