US citizens: call on the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect monarch butterflies.

US citizens: tell the executives of some insurance companies to stop insuring LNG export terminals.

*Antarctica sea ice reaches alarming low for third year in a row.*

The UK government is trying to eliminate a defense that climate defense protesters have used to convince juries to acquit them.

There is another defense that is valid for all climate defenders on trial for protesting: the necessity defense, for trying to prevent the bigger crime of ecocide.

The UNRWA says that, given the desperation for food of people in southern Gaza, they can't safely carry aid to northern Gaza.

The only place they can bring aid into Gaza is in the south, from Egypt, transporting a fraction of that insufficient aid across southern Gaza, meaning carrying it past injured and starving refugees, whose families will steal it.

As long as the aid is insufficient, and someone is going to starve, I suppose it makes no moral difference who draws the short straw, The real point is to bring in enough aid for everyone in Gaza.

The US could do that — it could land the aid on Gaza's shore by boat. It could land, each week, enough for everyone in Gaza for a week. Even Netanyahu would not dare attack the US aid force.

What it does require is boldness of spirit.

Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.