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A man totes refuse through a waste dump in the Maldives. The world’s biggest manufacturers of single-use plastic are set to increase their production capacity by 30 per cent by 2025, meaning a further 1 trillion one-liter plastic bottles and caps, 1 trillion plastic bags and 1 trillion meters of kitchen film will be produced, consumed and discarded as waste. (Photo by Dying Regime) Photo used under CC BY

Makers of plastic bottles, bags crank up production

The world’s biggest manufacturers of single-use plastic are set to increase their production capacity by 30% by 2025, meaning a further 1 trillion plastic bottles, caps, plastic bags and kitchen film each will be produced, consumed and discarded as waste.

The Independent

Turkey to ban plastic waste imports

Guardian

COVID causing lasting mental health problems

Psychologists are confronting the fact that many people won’t be back to normal anytime soon, and are making efforts to understand the long-term mental health effects of COVID, with an eye toward inequality.

NBCNews.com

Women’s STEMM advances stall out during pandemic

Across science, technology, engineering, math and medicine, there are more men in the workforce than women. Representation is even lower for women of color. After the pandemic hit, existing inequities deepened.

NPR

Asia snubs call to stop fossil fuel investments

Asian officials disputed the International Energy Agency’s call for no new oil, natural gas and coal investments for the world to be able to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, viewing that approach as too narrow.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Denmark revokes Syrian refugees’ status

Denmark has become the first European country to revoke residence status for more than 200 Syrian refugees, facing condemnation from EU lawmakers, the UN refugee agency and human rights groups.

BBC

Thousands of migrants swim from Morocco to Spanish enclave

CNN

Israel will continue airstrikes ‘until aim is met’

Although President Joe Biden has asked for a de-escalation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he was “determined” to continue bombarding Gaza until Israel’s “aim is met.”

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Gulf Arab citizens express anger at Israel

The ongoing bloodshed in the Gaza Strip has unleashed a chorus of voices across Gulf Arab states that are fiercely critical of Israel and emphatically supportive of Palestinians.

ABC News

Spain’s enclave struggles to handle migrants

Spain’s Interior Ministry said that it had returned more than half of the migrants. Those included some teenagers who appeared to be under 18 who Associated Press journalists saw Spanish police usher back across the border.

ABC News

Children bear brunt of Israel-Hamas conflict

Children are being subjected to extensive trauma in Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip. For some, it’s trauma they’ve seen repeatedly throughout their short lives.

Associated Press

Israel-Gaza violence: The children who have died in the conflict

BBC

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

India COVID deaths mount as Modi’s rating falls

India has reported a record 4,529 deaths caused by COVID this week while new cases rose by 267,334, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s approval ratings fall to a new low, according to a survey.

Al Jazeera

A wider war spreads fast and far in Myanmar

Another military airbase has come under rocket attack in central Myanmar, a shadowy but strategic assault that even the nation’s tightly censored, military-controlled news media felt compelled to report.

Asia Times Online

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

China’s rover returns 1st pictures from Mars

China has released the first pictures taken by its Zhurong rover on Mars. The forward view shows the landscape ahead of the robot as it sits on its landing platform; the rear-looking image reveals Zhurong’s solar panels.

BBC

NASA looks to electric planes to cut emissions

Over the next year, NASA will hunt for a breakthrough against one of the climate crisis’s most stubborn challenges – how to eliminate carbon pollution from aviation via a new generation of electric airplanes.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

Tokyo medical body pleads to cancel Olympics

The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo Olympic organizers start three days of virtual meetings and will run into some of the strongest medical-community opposition so far with the games set in just over eight weeks.

CBC News

Malaysia hit with record daily COVID cases

Malaysia this week reported a record 6,075 COVID cases in a single day, with authorities warning of a “dire” situation as hospitals rapidly fill up in the worst-hit areas.

Asia Times Online

Nepal, Bangladesh scramble for vaccines

Nepal and Bangladesh are making frantic efforts to secure COVID-19 vaccines for their faltering inoculation drives as their stocks run out and supply prospects have become clouded by a prolonged Indian curb on vaccine exports.

Reuters

Argentina’s gravediggers plead for vaccines

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Elizabeth Losos):

China and US must be climate-friendly lenders

The Hill

Column (Joshua Leifer):

US funds make Israel’s bombardment of Gaza possible. When will they be halted?

Guardian

Column (Hamid Dabashi):

What does ‘voting’ mean in Iran?

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Off-duty hero risks life to save 4 teens

A Mother’s Day full of fun almost turned tragic after four teenagers swimming at Johnson Beach in Perdido Key got caught in a rip current. Thankfully, an off-duty hero named Anthony Giorgi was there enjoying the beach.

SunnySkyz

High schoolers start business for college fund

While they were stuck at home last year during the pandemic, Virginia high school seniors Sithiya Reshmee and Farah Bahr decided to start a candy company — though they knew nothing about making candy.

MSN.com

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Celebrities hold little sway on young donors

Animal safety, rights issues, civil rights and social justice topped a list of concerns cited by Americans between the ages of 18 and 30. Online influencers held more sway with this group than celebrities.

NonProfit Times

$43M initiative launched for Galápagos Islands

Re:wild, a newly launched global environmental organization, has announced a $43 million commitment in support of efforts to protect and rewild the Galápagos Islands.

Philanthropy News Digest

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Cambodian workers struggle to pay debts

COVID lockdown in Cambodia leaves tens of thousands of low-paid textile workers without income. These workers are fearful to take microloans at the risk of losing land that would be held as collateral.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ENVIRONMENT

Illegal deforestation behind many foods

Nearly 70% of tropical forests cleared for cattle ranching and crops were deforested illegally between 2013 and 2019, a study showed, warning of the impact on global efforts to fight climate change.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Activists criticize profits of illegal deforestation

Environmentalists and some UK, EU and U.S. lawmakers are calling for legislation that would stop goods grown on illegally cleared land from ending up on shop shelves

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Governments stepping up to conserve nature

An area greater than Russia has been added to the world’s network of national parks and conservation areas since 2010, amid growing pressure to protect nature.

Guardian

UK homes risk subsiding due to climate crisis

The climate crisis is very likely to put millions of homes at increased risk of subsidence, according to new data from the British Geological Survey.

Guardian

Scientists launch tool to detect coral bleaching

Scientists have launched a world-first system to detect in almost real time the bleaching of the planet’s coral reefs that are under severe threat from global heating.

Guardian

Climate change destroying world’s oldest animal painting

BBC

Photo of the Day

This member of the Awá-Guajá people, an indigenous people living the Amazon rain forest in Brazil, participated in the Indigenous Women’s March in Brasilia, the Brazilian capital, in 2019. Loggers and cattle ranchers who have been living illegally on Awá-Guajá Indian tribal land for decades are finally being evicted after the Awa pleaded for years for the preservation of their nomadic hunter-gatherer life. (Photo by Apib Comunicação) Photo used under CC BY

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