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Brazil’s deforestation rose 28 percent this year and marks the first year of increase since 2009 with 2,255 square miles compared to 1,765 square miles last year. (Photo by Matt Zimmerman)

Brazil: Amazon deforestation rose 28 percent in a year

Brazil says the rate of deforestation in the Amazon increased by 28 percent last year, after years of decline. Activists blame the increase on a controversial reform to Brazil’s forest protection law.

BBC

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Interactive map: global forest change

University of Maryland

On a mission within earshot of a war, armed with paint

A group of graffiti painters from several countries gathered in the disputed region to add color to a building’s ruins.

New York Times

Philippines digs mass graves for victims

Mass burials are underway in the city of Tacloban, Philippines, where workers buried 100 of its thousands of dead on a hillside, the first of what will likely be many such burials for victims of Typhoon Haiyan.

Al Jazeera

‘De facto martial law’ in Tacloban, Leyte

ABS-CBN news

Relief effort for Haiyan victims gaining traction

Christian Science Monitor

‘Unpredictable pandemics’ warning

The world needs to prepare for “unpredictable pandemics” from viruses making the leap from animals to people, scientists say.

BBC

Facing global public health head on

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

15 most popular cities for Millennials

In 2008, young people born between the 1980s and the end of the century, were fleeing Washington, D.C. In the following two years, the city and its suburbs added more Millennials than any other city in America.

The Atlantic

TYPHOON HAIYAN: HOW TO HELP

Aid flows to typhoon survivors, but thousands still missing

Emergency supplies started flowing into typhoon-devastated areas of the Philippines, with a U.S. aircraft carrier group bringing helicopters to ferry in medicine and water.

Washington Post

Grief and hunger dominate amid survival struggle

In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, nights are often the hardest. It‘s dark, wet, scary, there is little to do, and often even less to eat.

CNN

Domed refuge now cauldron of misery for survivors

Houston Chronicle

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

How open data empowers citizens of poorer nations

After 400 children died of lead poisoning, and others became became sick when gold mining operations ran amok in Nigeria in 2010, a local nonprofit organization swung into action.

NewScientist

For mothers and babies, light means life

A call for a 75 percent reduction in maternal mortality rate in 2015 in Sierra Leone may save women’s lives thorough use of “Solar Suitcases” from We Care Solar, a nonprofit based in California.

Sierra Express Media

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

South Sudan: Every aid dollar spent makes a difference

Global support can help to build resilience to recurring shocks and stresses – and could relieve suffering for good.

Guardian

Tom Jones joins Britain‘s entrepeneurs to aid children’s charity

The Education Secretary told a charity dinner that business success and philanthropy went hand in hand. He said the country should praise people working to build a better U.K.

Daily & Sunday Express

HUMAN RIGHTS

Activists: 5 women detained under Senegal’s anti-gay law

Senegalese police detained five women accused of violating the country’s anti-gay law, highlighting increased pressure on suspected lesbians in the deeply conservative West African nation.

CBS News

Hunger for drugs brings torture and death to Mexico City

The sadism and violence that has plagued other areas is now as close as 15 minutes from seat of federal government.

Al Jazeera

Brothel raids endanger Rio’s sex workers

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Mexico City: sex trafficking crackdown divides rights groups

Guardian

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

California marks 1st anniversary of cap and trade

Since California launched the nation’s largest greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, the state has proven that climate change action can be led by states and can even spread over the border.

The Energy Collective

Korea cites ‘remarkable success’ in developing free trade zone with China

Although China has become increasingly frustrated with the North’s nuclear tests and missile launches, it appears that Beijing has been deepening its economic ties with Pyongyang.

Business Korea

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Sri Lanka’s Mahinda Rajapaksa hits out at critics

Sri Lanka‘s President Mahinda Rajapaksa has hit out at critics amid heightened scrutiny of his government’s human rights record on the eve of a Commonwealth summit hosted in Colombo.

BBC

Egypt‘s message to the US: We’ve got Russia

Russian officials are in Cairo today, reportedly to negotiate an arms deal. The US suspended some of its annual military aid to Egypt last month.

Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Joseline Peña-Melnyk):

Peace lasts when women help broker it

Baltimore Sun

Column (Susan Kieffer):

Is there a point to disaster anniversaries?

Time

Editorial:

Is the deadly typhoon a sign of climate change

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

California takes down 10 fake Obamacare websites

Authorities in California shut down 10 fake Obamacare websites, amid nationwide concern among law enforcement officials about potential fraud during the program’s rollout.

Reuters

Rate cut makes Draghi a good German

The European Central Bank’s decision to cut rates was in the interests of the euro area. That includes Germany, where news media has excoriated ECB President Mario Draghi for the move.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Vast Antarctic iceberg ‘could threaten shipping’

UK researchers have been awarded an emergency grant to track a vast iceberg in Antarctica that could enter shipping lanes.

BBC

Colombia‘s misty mountain world’s most irreplacable nature reserve

A misty mountain in Colombia, once beleaguered by the cocaine trade, is the world’s most irreplaceable reserve, based on a landmark analysis of protected areas on the planet.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Better batteries through biology? Modified viruses boost battery performance

MIT researchers have found a way to boost lithium-air battery performance, with the help of modified viruses.

ScienceDaily

Mystery of black hole jets revealed: high-speed streams of matter made of heavy atoms

For the first time, astronomers have cracked the lid open on black hole jets – the little-understood, super-powerful streams of matter sometimes emitted from the centers of black holes.

International Business Times

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