We start the day's other headlines with the latest problems with the military's V-22 Osprey fleet.

The Pentagon is temporarily pausing flights of the aircraft after weakened metal components were found

following a near crash in New Mexico last month. The latest incident bears similarities to the crash off the coast of Japan in 2023 that killed eight service members.

And it comes amid ongoing concerns over the Osprey, which has been plagued by safety issues

during its three decades of flying. The Biden administration is banning two known carcinogens

found in a variety of everyday products and services.

Today's announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency includes a total ban of the highly toxic TCE.

It's primarily used in industrial settings as a metal degreaser, but TCE is also in some household items like cleaning wipes, stain removers, and glue.

The agency also restricted consumer and commercial use of what's known as PERC, a common solvent used in dry cleaning.

Both chemicals have been linked to liver, kidney, and other types of cancer, as well as damage to the nervous and immune systems.

More than three-quarters of the land on earth got drier in recent decades.

That's according to a new report released at a UN summit in Saudi Arabia where nations are

working to address the loss of once fertile land.

The UN calls the shift an existential crisis, which will mean more drought and less land

that can grow food and sustain plant and animal life. The report finds that some 5 billion people

will be impacted by drying land by the end of the century. Scientists place the blame on emissions

from burning fossil fuels. From observations, we can see that global warming has been the main factor

explaining the aridity trends observed in the last decades.

Precipitation is not changing very much at the global scale.

Separately, European climate scientists say that the Earth just experienced its second

warmest November on record. The report from the Climate Service Copernicus is just the

latest evidence that this year will likely be the hottest ever recorded. That would mean

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