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Bitcoin mining is heating planet at astounding rate

Using bitcoin to pay for your morning coffee could be compounding climate change. As crazy as it sounds, this high-tech digital currency has a real impact on the environment, and some researchers believe it might even push Earth closer to the brink.

CBS News

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Lack of school toilets affects 620M kids globally

A lack of decent school toilets compromises the education and health of 620 million children worldwide, according to a newly released report from the charity WaterAid.

Telegraph.co.uk

Struggling migrants face vilification, abuse

Vilification of migrants as criminals — rather than recognition of migrants as people needing protection — by politicians and the media is making them more vulnerable to abuse, a frontline humanitarian worker says.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Colombia opens camp for Venezuelan migrants

Officials in Colombia have opened a Bogota camp to host 500 Venezuelans who had been inhabiting a growing shanty town near the city’s bus station. Colombia had long avoided raising tent cities to house Venezuelans.

Al Jazeera

‘Get out!’ Some Mexico border residents reject migrant arrivals

Reuters

US will promote fossil fuels at UN climate talks

The Trump administration plans to set up a side event promoting fossil fuels at the annual UN climate talks, repeating a strategy that infuriated global-warming activists during last year’s talks.

CNBC

Central African Republic on brink of all-out war

The UN Security Council has failed to agree to terms for extending a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic just days after a top aid official warned the country is at risk of sliding into full-scale war.

Guardian

CAR: A crisis forgotten by everyone but Russia

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

El Salvador posts highest rate of femicide

According to the UN commission, El Salvador has the highest rate of femicide in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2017, with more than 10 killings for every 100,000 women.

Inquirer.net

Pakistan working on women’s right to divorce

In a move devised to work in favor of women’s rights to divorce, Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology is drafting a new marriage document; critics say it is not enough.

Asia Times Online

Denmark pulls aid over Tanzania’s anti-gay acts

Tanzania’s second-biggest donor, Denmark, said it would withhold $10 million worth of aid money. The decision comes after a Tanzanian official announced an anti-gay crackdown in the capital city of Dar es Salaam last month.

NBCNews.com

World Bank withdraws $300M Tanzania loan

The Independent

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Costa Rica court legalizes same-sex marriage

Same-sex couples in Costa Rica will have the right to get married by mid-2020, the nation’s constitutional court has ruled, a first for socially conservative Central America.

The Weekly Times

Guyana strikes law against cross-dressing

Reuters

S. Africa parliament backs land reform move

A parliamentary committee in South Africa has backed a recommendation to amend the constitution to allow for land expropriation without compensation.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Could a shrub help fight hunger in Africa?

New research from The Ohio State University has found that growing millet alongside a native shrub increases food production by 900 percent. The shrubs irrigate the crops, sharing water they draw from deep underground.

ScienceDaily

New treatment could stop painful arthritis

A groundbreaking therapy that genetically manipulates to stop inflammation underlying osteoarthritis was tested to amazing success in dogs. It is now being tested on humans as a potential treatment for osteoarthritis.

CBS News

GLOBAL HEALTH

Fears grow of a swine fever epidemic in China

Fears are growing that the outbreak of African swine fever in China could turn into an epidemic, infecting pigs across the region and even in the United States.

Asia Times Online

Pneumonia could kill 11M children by 2030

Pneumonia will kill nearly 11 million children under 5 by 2030, experts have warned. More than 880,000 children, aged less than 2, died from pneumonia in 2016 alone.

Yahoo! News

Diarrhea, pneumonia kill one child every two minutes in India

Business Standard

Loss of Cuban doctors will hurt millions

Millions of Brazilians may be left without access to doctors due to the end of a program that brought Cuban physicians to rural and dangerous areas in Brazil, says former health minister who helped create the initiative.

Associated Press

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GOOD NEWS

Afghan woman summits mount ‘for every girl’

An Afghan woman who had been denied athletic training in her youth has struck a blow for gender equality. At 24, braving frostbite and the Taliban, she has become the first Afghan woman to summit the country’s highest peak.

Guardian

Machine dispenses necessities to homeless

A vending machine outside a Muncie, Indiana, fire station has a much larger meaning. Instead of food, it’s full of necessities to help the homeless community.

FOX News

Eleven-year-old fights homelessness one bag at a time

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

NGO urges Cambodia to stop ethnic eviction

An NGO in Cambodia called on the country’s Interior Ministry to intervene in the eviction of ethnic Vietnamese living on the Tonle Sap Lake, saying reallocated land lacks the infrastructure necessary to support them.

Radio Free Asia

Israel invests $60M in Angola’s solar power

Israel invested $60 million in several sectors in Angola, including the construction of a solar power plant in coastal Benguela province, to bridge the local deficit of production and distribution of energy.

allAfrica.com

ENVIRONMENT

Oil companies sued over hotter oceans

Commercial fishermen in California and Oregon sued oil and gas companies for losses linked to algal blooms fueled by warmer waters, and hurting the fishing market in the Pacific Ocean by raising ocean temperatures.

Scientific American

ECONOMY AND TRADE

China to crack down on tiger, rhino part trade

The government will organize special crackdown campaigns with a focus on addressing the illegal trade in rhinos, tigers and their by-products. State action came after strong pressure from environmental activists.

Al Jazeera

Low tariffs costing Filipino banana exporters

The reduction of tariffs in key markets for Philippine bananas, such as South Korea and Japan, may drive local exporters out of business, according to the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association.

Business Mirror

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Siblings pose for a picture at an informal settlement in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by EC/ECHO/Pierre Prakash) Photo used under CC BY

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