I'm Nathan Robinson, editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine, and this is the Current Affairs News Briefing.

London's priciest homes are sinking because of climate change.

The ground underneath London is sinking, causing the homes that sit atop to warp and crack Bloomberg reports.

While shrinking might be a better word because the weather is hotter, the air is drier,

the clay-rich soil is contracting, shifting the foundation that homes are built on.

Technically what's happening is subsidence, the same sinking phenomenon we're seeing here along

the Louisiana coastline.

London's subsidence is more pronounced in neighborhoods like Chelsea and Kensington, which are,

as the Brits say, posh, but all of the city is now at risk. This is something you think about

as Donald Trump holds the US out of every alliance to fight the climate crisis. Last week, he left

the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,

a cooperative treaty between every country in the world,

except now the United States.

Stanford pro-Palestine protesters have begun their felony trial.

In Santa Clara County, five students who occupied a building on Stanford's campus

and unofficially renamed it, Adnan al-Bersh, after a Palestinian surgeon tortured to death by

Israel, are facing trial for felony conspiracy to trespass and felony vandalism.

Jeff Rosen, the Santa Clara County District Attorney, said it's not the protests nor the speech

that are being litigated, but the use of fake blood, which is just Peter 101, as well as

about $10,000 in property damage.

These are the most severe charges given to any American pro-Palestine activists so far,

and as the Guardian suggests, their timing is more than a little suspicious.

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