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According to a new report, coal plants in the G7 countries – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and United States – are on track to cost the world 450 billion dollars a year by the end of the century as they fuel the gathering pace of climate change. (Photo by Rob Faulkner)

Don’t punish Arizona for its water conservation

Arizona leaders are starting to worry that California’s water crisis will ensnare Arizona if Congress or the U.S. Interior Department get involved.

azcentral.com

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Arizona must continue conservation efforts, protect water

Tucson.com

Coal dependence to cost world $450 billion a year by 2100

Coal plants in the G7 are on track to cost the world $450 billion a year by the end of the century and reduce crops of substantially as they fuel the pace of climate change.

allAfrica.com

Norway’s coal disinvestment is still just a drop in the ocean

New Scientist

Class war comes to Iceland

In a country with only 320,000 people, a crowd of 1,000 counts as a mass political event. This one was calm and polite — but very angry.

Al Jazeera

The problem of urbanization without economic growth

Some 200,000 people move into cities across the globe each and every day. Over the course of the next century, that figure will add up to billions.

City Lab

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Building sustainable cities with Turkey’s urbanization agenda

Brookings

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

A branding wizard wants to close the philanthropic divide

Simone Esposito wondered, why do American corporations give so freely to philanthropic endeavors while their British counterparts seem consistently recalcitrant?

Huffington Post

Seventh-grader receives philanthropy award

Seventh-grader Griffin Melson received the Roger Grein Spirit of Philanthropy Award at the awards ceremony for Magnified Giving, a local nonprofit that gives students hands-on experience with philanthropy.

Cincinnati.com

HUMAN RIGHTS

Saudi Arabia could resume flogging

Saudi Arabia could resume flogging an activist as early as Friday after the country’s Supreme Court upheld its sentence of 1,000 lashings and 10 years in prison.

NBCNews.com

Ireland’s abortion problem: new report lays bare the horrifying truth

A new in-depth Amnesty International study reveals at least 4,000 women are forced to leave Ireland for abortions each year, with many resorting to dangerous DIY options. Radhika Sanghani reports

The Telegraph

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Obama sending 450 more troops to Iraq to fight ISIL

President Obama will send up to 450 more U.S. troops to Iraq to step up the training of local forces as they battle the Islamic State.

USA TODAY

US boosts troops levels in Iraq to train local forces battling ISIL

National Post

California’s mega-Drought: Nuclear power to the rescue

The only power facility in California that does not use any of the state’s fresh water is the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County. And it can even produce additional freshwater.

Forbes

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Acknowledging Africa’s informal sector

The African continent’s informal sector is gaining legitimacy as “the new normal” in driving forward the economy.

CNBC

Junk-bond defaults growing as pressure from commodities persists

U.S. junk-bond defaults rose to the highest level since October 2009 as depressed prices plague energy, metal and mining issuers.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Why are polar bears adding dolphins to their diet?

Polar bears have been spotted eating white-beaked dolphins on Svalbard, a group of Norwegian islands in the Arctic Ocean. Another example of how global warming is changing habitats and diets.

Christian Science Monitor

Scientists more worried than public about world’s growing population

When Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798, the number of people around the world was nearing one billion for the first time.

Pew Research Center

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Driving growth outpacing population growth: A treacherous road ahead?

Scienceblog.com

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GOOD NEWS

Michigan teen carries his brother for 57 miles for cerebral palsy awareness

Fifty-seven miles would be tough to walk, and even tougher with your brother on your back. Hunter Gandee is sore after carrying his brother, Branden.

ABC News

Nuts may reduce risk of death from multiple causes, study finds

Like several before it, a new study finds that eating a modest amount of nuts every day might significantly reduce our risk of dying from a number of chronic diseases.

Forbes

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Core Humanitarian Standard: do NGOs need another set of standards?

Dubbed ‘the future of humanitarian accountability’, a new standard allows crisis-affected communities to hold the NGOs helping them to account.

Guardian

Nonprofit wants to solve a ‘wonderful problem’

It doesn’t feel like overcoat weather. That doesn’t faze Karen Hebert. By her count, she’s got 5,000 winter coats to give away.

The Advertiser

ENVIRONMENT

Go green: Saving the planet at a household level

Thirty years ago, the concept of recycling was all but unheard of in Australia, but many Australian households are now ensuring their rubbish is sorted before it’s disposed of.

The Daily Telegraph

What countries have offered for Paris climate agreement

Ethiopia became the latest country to present a plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions for a global climate pact that’s supposed to be adopted in Paris later this year.

The Intermountain

Contractors learn to fight soil erosion

One of the not-so-obvious impacts of construction around Bozeman is dirt, which, when left exposed at work sites, can erode into the Gallatin Valley’s streams, degrading water quality.

Bozeman Daily Chronicle

AAFC has solutions to fix soil erosion

Atlantic Farm Focus

Photo of the Day

A NYC native sprints on the track around the Jackie Onassis Reservoir with the Eldorado building, 300 Central Park West, built in1930, in the background. (Photo by Henry Hemming)

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