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Oceans, ice are absorbing brunt of climate change

Climate change is heating the oceans and crumbling the planet’s ice sheets, a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says. The report forecasts the future for these crucial parts of the climate system.

National Geographic

What you can do to help prevent climate change, according to experts

ABC News

Nigeria warned expelling charities risks disaster

Nigeria has been warned it risks a humanitarian disaster if the government goes ahead with its threat to throw aid agencies out of the north-east of the country.

Guardian

Asian Pacific protesters stand with Hong Kong

Thousands of people have marched in cities in Australia, Taiwan and Japan to show their support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The “anti-totalitarianism” rallies were part of a coordinated day of global protests.

Al Jazeera

Protestors mark movement’s fifth anniversary with graffiti, petrol bombs and flag burnings

Asia Times Online

Iran foreign minister says US can’t finish a war

Iran’s foreign minister warned in an interview that the U.S. could not “finish” a war against Iran, while blaming the U.S. for a “cyber war” he said was being waged against Iran.

The Hill

Iran’s oil sector on ’full alert’ against attacks

Yahoo! News

Poem about a vagina lands activist in jail

A poet used a graphic description of the birth of the Ugandan president and his mother’s vagina to criticize his “oppression" of the country. The poet, jailed feminist Stella Nyanzi, will present her defense this week.

CNN

Ugandan woman turns plastic bags into backpacks

Voice of America

HUMAN RIGHTS

US slashes refugee limit to all-time low of 18K

The U.S. government has said it will cut the number of refugees allowed into the country by almost half. Over the next 12 months the U.S. refugee program will accept 18,000 people, a record low.

BBC

The Africans risking death in jungle trying to reach US

BBC

Muslim Americans testify on effects of Trump’s travel ban

Al Jazeera

Moroccan women admit breaking abortion laws

Thousands of women in Morocco have put themselves at risk of arrest by admitting to sex outside marriage and undergoing abortions in order to show solidarity with a 28-year-old journalist imprisoned for the crimes.

The Independent

Brother found guilty, gets life imprisonment for murdering Pakistani model Qandeel Baloch in ‘honor killing’

NBCNews.com

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Middle East rivalries threaten Afghan elections

Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Qatar inject yet another element into election campaign beset by violence in Afghanistan.

The Independent

Australian state votes to decriminalize abortion

Lawmakers in Sydney, Australia have voted to decriminalize abortion in the country’s most populous state, overturning legal restrictions that have been in place since the start of the 20th century.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

CO2 levels were steady for 2.5M years until 1965

Humans have never lived with the high CO2 atmospheric conditions of the last 60 years, according to a new study.

Treehugger

Drought reveals lost Spanish ‘Stonehenge’

After 50 years underwater, Spain’s Dolmen of Guadalperal, a 7,000-year-old circle of 150 upright stones, is back on dry land, due to record heat, drought in Europe this summer.

Earthsky

GLOBAL HEALTH

Vaccine could thwart spread of tropical disease

Scientists are proposing using a lab-produced protein molecule that can act as a delivery system for future vaccines against the mosquito-borne illness chikungunya.

Forbes

AI used to improve public health in resource limited countries

STAT

Global ‘scorecard’ maps mental health crisis

A global initiative to measure the extent of mental illness around the world and identify some of the most effective treatments is unveiled in New York.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Shuttered charity donates toy inventory to kids

Volunteers from Brunswick’s Santa Claus Fund, which is being shut down after 50 years, donated the organization’s entire toy inventory to the Waterville-based Maine Children’s Home for Little Wanderers.

Times Record

A US charity tries something new: Letting poor kids choose their donors instead

Vox

Peru hotel welcomes Venezuela’s refugees

Some 715,000 Venezuelans now live in Peru, and almost all of them arrived through the border town of Tumbes. Here, a compassionate hotel manager is providing refugees with a roof over their heads.

Deutsche Welle

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Developer donates farmland for social housing

New World Development Co Ltd will donate 3 million square feet of its farmland reserves for social housing, it said, two weeks after Beijing singled out Hong Kong developers for not doing enough to alleviate housing problems.

Reuters

PR firms decline to restore Hong Kong’s image

Associated Press

Facebook Birthday Charity raises $1 billion

More than $1 billion in donations has flowed through Facebook’s birthday fundraisers alone over the past few years, thanks to the over 45 million Facebook users who have donated or created a fundraiser through the platform.

Tech.co

ENVIRONMENT

60% of native European trees face extinction

More than half of Europe’s endemic trees are threatened with extinction as invasive diseases, pests, pollution and urban development take a growing toll on the landscape, according to a study.

Guardian

Communities coping with climate change – in pictures

Guardian

Vegetarian diets not always climate-friendly

Scientists found that diets in which meat, fish or dairy products were consumed only once a day would leave less of a footprint on climate change and water supplies than a vegetarian diet including milk and eggs.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Poor nations robbed of $416B revenue per year

Poor nations are being robbed of revenues worth $416 billion per year by “illicit financial flows” – money that is illegally or abusively earned, transferred or used around the world – Christian Aid has estimated.

Reliefweb

Plenty of fish in the sea, but not for poor or hungry

Thomson Reuters Foundation

US income inequality hits highest in 50 years

The gap between the haves and have-nots in the U.S. grew last year to its highest level in over 50 years of tracking income inequality, according to Census Bureau figures.

NBCNews.com

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An indigenous refugee from Venezuela sets up her own informal camp in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil in February 2019. (Photo by Michael Swan) Photo used under CC BY

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