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Sinkholes have been opening up around the Dead Sea since the 1980’s, water levels are down and there is more and more mud. The Dead Sea is dying. (Photo by David Shankbone)

US poverty remains high as incomes stall, census says

Statistics released by the Census Bureau present a portrait of a stagnant economy with poverty remaining high and incomes sluggish four years into the economic recovery.

Bloomberg

CDC sounds alarm on drug-resistant infections

More than two million Americans get sick every year with infections that defy modern antibiotics. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sums up the scene.

Popular Science

Antibiotic-resistant infections

CNN

Differences persist over Syria

Russia took a step to ward-off an internationally supported attack on Syria. Enforcing elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons would not use Chapter 7 provisions and cannot invoke an attack.

The Hindu

Sarin: the crude nerve agent used in Syria

Reuters

Syrian rebels demand response after UN report

Associated Press

House bill would cut $4B a year from food stamps

The House is expected to consider a bill that would cut food stamps by an estimated $4 billion annually and allow states to put broad new work requirements in place for recipients.

ABC News

Cutting food stamps: the difference between the numbers and the effects

The Atlantic Wire

The Dead Sea is dying

Sinkholes, habitat destruction and perilously low water levels:  Can a dying sea be saved? As experts, politicians and diplomats argue over its fate, little is being done to keep the Dead Sea alive.

Slate

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Forest communities draw a REDD line in Uganda

Analysts have mixed reviews on a $3.6M agreement between Uganda and the World Bank to support the country’s preparations for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation.

IPS

UN faces Syria aid challenge having cut staffing after chemical attacks

The United Nations has sharply reduced its humanitarian and development staff in Syria, making delivery of assistance to a war-torn people even more challenging, a U.N. official said.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Socio-economic status influences risk of violence against Aboriginal women

If Aboriginal women had the same income and education levels as non-Aboriginal women, their risk of being abused by a partner could drop by 40 percent, according to a new Canadian study.

ScienceDaily

Yemen minister on child marriage urges to end the practice

In Yemen, deeply tribal and conservative, the issue of child marriage is extremely complicated. According to Human Rights Watch, over half of all girls there are married before age 18.

CNN

Group urges Yemen to protect women’s rights

Yahoo! News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

EU under fire for policy linked to land grabbing in Cambodia

Critics say the Everything But Arms trade agreement has led to serious and systematic human rights abuses in the Cambodian sugar industry and further impoverished its people.

Thomas Reuters Foundation

EU ready for talks with China on pact paving way for free trade

European Union countries will agree to talks with China on a pact making it easier to do business, paving the way for a free-trade deal between the world’s biggest markets, EU officials said.

Reuters

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Experts at IAEA meet criticize Japan for ongoing problems at Fukushima

Japan’s government came under criticism from nuclear experts at a briefing held on the sidelines of the annual assembly of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency.

Japan Times

Political imbroglio affecting governance in Nigeria, Labor warns

Organized labor has expressed concern over the state of the nation, particularly the unresolved crisis in the education sector, and the political imbroglio affecting progress of the country.

This Day Live

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Voyager 1 is now the first mission to explore interstellar space

A blue dot in a cosmic ocean: Radio signal from NASA’s Voyager 1, as it travels outside our solar system, is seen from Earth for the first time, NASA says.

Daily Mail

Photos from NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 probes

SPACE.com

Brazil looks to break from US-centric Internet

Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington’s widespread online spying, a move that many fear will be a dangerous step toward fracturing a global network.

NBCNews.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Dan Charles):

American farmers say they feed the world, but do they?

(NPR)

the salt

Column (Jeffrey Sachs and Michel Sidibé):

Zero new HIV infections among children can be a reality

CNN

Column (Klaus Jacob):

The case against rebuilding the coastline after superstorm Sandy

Mother Jones

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GOOD NEWS

All infants in England to get free school lunches

All pupils at infant schools in England are to get free school lunches from next September, Lib Dem leader and Deputy PM Nick Clegg has announced.

BBC

Dutch police train rats to sniff out crime

Police in the Netherlands are hoping to save money by training rats to sniff out things like drugs and gunshot residue. The animals are cheaper and faster than traditional lab work.

Spiegel International

Indigenous people of Honduras granted one million hectares of rainforest

A century after England granted the Miskito people rights over their land, Honduras has officially handed over nearly a million hectares of tropical forest to these indigenous people.

Environmental News Network

Miskito peoples in Honduras

Bing.com

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Family of reclusive heiress fights over $300M fortune left to charity and staff

When Huguette Clark divvied up her $300 million fortune, she left 75 percent to charity and the rest to those who cared for her in her last decades. Surviving relatives are staking a claim.

The Independent

New evidence on charitable gift restrictions and donor behavior

Gift restrictions are a common tool used by donors to ensure charitable intent. Due to costs and loss of ﬂexibility, gift restrictions are increasingly expensive for recipient non-profit organizations.

ScienceDaily

ENVIRONMENT

Virginia mayors plead for help with climate change

Beset by rising seas and fiercer storms, Virginia’s mayors voice frustration with a state government still denying the problem of climate change.

Scientific American

Corporate climate pollution grows

The global economic recovery has produced mixed results for businesses trying to reduce their carbon footprints, as shown in a British nonprofit’s survey of the world’s largest companies.

Scientific American

Photo of the Day

The sugar industry has tricked, harassed and threatened Cambodian villagers into giving up their land. About 80% of Cambodians do not have land titles to the land they live on. (Photo by Lucius Kwok)

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