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Children in Aleppo, Syria lose their lose childhood to years of continuous war. (Photo by Freedom House)

Out of the fog: How a startup harvests water from thin air

With ongoing climate change and contaminated groundwater causing major rifts in water sustainability, nations are beginning to look into alternative water solutions.

Christian Science Monitor

One solution for a “water-stressed” future

al Fanar

Liberia shuts schools as Ebola spreads, Peace Corps leaves West Africa

Liberia will close schools and consider quarantines, rolling out the toughest measures yet imposed by a West African government to halt the worst outbreak on record of the deadly Ebola virus.

Reuters

No place to hide for children of war

The conflicts in Syria and Gaza are having a a devastating impact on the lives of children. Families face the unknown prospect of how war will shape the futures of young people there for decades to come.

BBC

The war against Gaza’s women & their bodies

Muftah

UN humanitarian chief alarmed at violence in Gaza

Xinhua

The battle to eradicate polio in Pakistan

Political unrest in Pakistan has been a gift to the poliovirus, with 99 cases reported there so far this year.

Time

World looks anxiously to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria to eradicate polio

Forbes

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Polio’s surge in Pakistan: Are parents part of the problem?

NPR

How protecting wildlife helps stop child labor and slavery

As fish and fauna are wiped out, more children around the world are forced to work, and more people are forced into indentured servitude, scientists wrote in the journal Science.

NPR

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Top Silicon Valley charity leaders pay averages $500,000-plus

The 25 highest-paid non-hospital nonprofit leaders in Silicon Valley earned $520,000 on average in 2012, according to Silicon Valley Business Journal.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Isis Dallis Keigwin supports youths who ‘age out’ of foster care

Her Camellia Network provides a way for former foster kids to share their stories and connect with mentors, job training, and internship programs.

Christian Science Monitor

HUMAN RIGHTS

Bolivia makes child labor legal, in an attempt to make it safer

A new law in Bolivia allows children as young as ten to work legally, and has led to sharp criticism from many international human rights groups, who note that it goes against a United Nation convention setting a minimum age of 14.

NPR

Bolivia’s child labour law shames us all

Guardian

US imposes travel restrictions on Venezuelan officials in human rights abuses

The U.S. has imposed travel restrictions on several Venezuelan government officials who have been “responsible for, or complicit” in human rights abuses.

Kuwait News Agency

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

A market problem: museums adjust to huge crowds in Europe

While we all might have had our own problems with crowded museum venues, the Louvre and other museums across Europe are seeing record numbers that are forcing them to make major adjustments.

NonProfit Quarterly

Tanzania: Skilled trade negotiators needed

Lack of experienced experts with strong negotiation skills is one among the main setbacks that fail many African countries from excelling at international trade.

allAfrica.com

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Chicago’s Emanuel says to boost shelter space for child migrants

Chicago will set up additional shelters for unaccompanied immigrant children to be funded by the federal government and run by local charities, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said.

Reuters

Chicago mobilizes to take in 1,000 Central American child migrants

FOX News

‘Preventing poverty’ not a valid goal for tax purposes, CRA tells Oxfam Canada

The Canada Revenue Agency has told Oxfam that it can no longer try to prevent poverty if it wants to keep its charitable tax status. It can only alleviate poverty, as preventing it might benefit people who are not already poor.

CBC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

101 geysers spotted on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus

The icy Saturn moon Enceladus sports at least 101 geysers, which reach all the way down to the satellite’s subsurface ocean, new research suggests.

SPACE.com

Behavioral tracking and neuroscience are tools for sustainable innovation

Let‘s ditch sustainability surveys which tell us consumers pay more for sustainability - they don’t. New tools, used responsibly, can properly analyze behavioral patterns

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Lois Epstein):

U.S. has an opportunity to protect Alaska’s seas

Houston Chronicle

Column (Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw):

The girls Obama forgot

New York Times

Column (Gordon Brown):

Getting girls into school is the global civil rights issue of our time

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

Here’s another billionaire art collector into arts philanthropy

It doesn’t always follow that billionaires with huge art collections are also big into arts philanthropy. But there sure does seem to be a pattern if you think about big arts philanthropists.

Inside Philanthropy

The long goodbye: Atlantic philanthropies approaching the end

More than a decade after The Atlantic Philanthropies decided it would give away everything, the foundation is coming to its end date and trying to develop best practices.

NonProfit Times

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Oakland nonprofits seek to slow minimum-wage push

An Oakland, Calif., referendum on raising the city’s minimum wage to $12.25 an hour is raising concerns among social-service charities, which fear the hike will force large-scale cutbacks in job-training programs.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Putin‘s war on NGOs threatens Russia’s future

The Justice Ministry continues to officially label leading Russian human rights organizations as “foreign agents.” By law, Russian NGOs that receive foreign funding must declare themselves as “foreign agents.”

Moscow Times

ENVIRONMENT

The future will be swarming with rats

That cockroaches will inherit our despoiled earth is just a tired misconception. The real champions will be disease-carrying rats.

Motherboard

In the Arctic Ocean, researchers measure waves the size of houses

As the climate warms and sea ice retreats, the North is changing. An ice-covered expanse now has a season of increasingly open water which is predicted to extend across the whole Arctic Ocean before the middle of this century.

Science 2.0

Blog:

Climate change in the Arctic: a call to action

World Policy

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A wasp is unable to fight off an attack by several ants. (Photo by Tom Woodward)

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